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The Last Male Virgin
Leslie's client, Dr. Peter Havistock, a gorgeous man who spent fourteen years living with a Stone-Age tribe in the wilds of Papua New Guinea after surviving a plane crash, turns her world upside down when he announces on national TV that he is a virgin and looking for a wife, preferably Leslie! Original.
368 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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Katherine Deauxville
15 books7 followersaka M. H. Davis, Maggie Davis, Maggie Daniels
Maggie Hill was born in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, daughter of George Blair and Dorothy (Mason) Hill. She also writes under the pen names of M. H. Davis, Maggie Davis, Maggie Daniels, and Katherine Deauxville, is the author of over 25 published novels. She is a former feature writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, copywriter for Young & Rubican in New York, and assistant in research to the chairman of the department of psychology at Yale University. She taught three writing courses at Yale, and was a two-time guest writer/artist at the International Cultural center in Hammamet, Tunisia. She has written for the Georgia Review, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Holiday and Venture magazines. She is the winner of four Reviewer’s Choice Awards and one Lifetime Achievement Award for romantic comedy from Romantic Times Magazine, and received the Silver Pen Award from Affaire de Coeur Magazine. She is also listed in Who's Who 2000.
Maggie Hill was born in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, daughter of George Blair and Dorothy (Mason) Hill. She also writes under the pen names of M. H. Davis, Maggie Davis, Maggie Daniels, and Katherine Deauxville, is the author of over 25 published novels. She is a former feature writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, copywriter for Young & Rubican in New York, and assistant in research to the chairman of the department of psychology at Yale University. She taught three writing courses at Yale, and was a two-time guest writer/artist at the International Cultural center in Hammamet, Tunisia. She has written for the Georgia Review, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Holiday and Venture magazines. She is the winner of four Reviewer’s Choice Awards and one Lifetime Achievement Award for romantic comedy from Romantic Times Magazine, and received the Silver Pen Award from Affaire de Coeur Magazine. She is also listed in Who's Who 2000.
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November 3, 2014
There are a lot of firsts happening in this book, and not just with sex.
Meet Leslie, a strong woman working a book tour for her family's foundation. She knows that Dr. Peter Havistock is impressive. He survived a plane crash that took his parents' lives and spent fourteen years living with a Stone-Age tribe in Papua New Guinea and has now written a best selling book about it.
This is the first time that Leslie has worked a book tour that causes college students to scream and go crazy, women to stalk the writer in the streets, and seeing her writer half-naked in front of crowds more often than not.
And, if the way Peter acts isn't enough, he has just announced on national and perhaps even international television that he was a virgin and is looking for a wife. On top of that, Peter seems to want to marry her! What's a girl to do?
This book sounds so funny and interesting...but I just couldn't get into it at all. Peter was interesting, but with the story being told from Leslie's point of view the reader doesn't get much of Peter's personality and life except in the interactions with him, which for most of the book is very few.
In fact, for the first almost half of the book we get very little interaction between Peter and Leslie. So it's a bit of a surprise when all of a sudden Leslie realizes that she's in love with him. The few interactions between these two characters don't always make sense either. In fact, it's like all of sudden they are together rather than a gradual building of the romance.
The only interesting thing that I could read about was the introduction of this organization that seems very interested in Peter's exploits and eventually kidnap Leslie to convince her to marry Peter and disappear from the limelight. That is the only thing that really peaked my interest in the entire novel.
From the title and description I was expecting a very funny romance story with a man confused about sexual matters and women throwing themselves at him, but him falling for the woman who didn't throw herself at him and was doing her best to get him through this book tour unmolested. I was disappointed by how unfunny the book actually was. I hardly cracked a smile or laugh the entire time I read it.
Overall, it was an okay read, but not something I would recommend.
Meet Leslie, a strong woman working a book tour for her family's foundation. She knows that Dr. Peter Havistock is impressive. He survived a plane crash that took his parents' lives and spent fourteen years living with a Stone-Age tribe in Papua New Guinea and has now written a best selling book about it.
This is the first time that Leslie has worked a book tour that causes college students to scream and go crazy, women to stalk the writer in the streets, and seeing her writer half-naked in front of crowds more often than not.
And, if the way Peter acts isn't enough, he has just announced on national and perhaps even international television that he was a virgin and is looking for a wife. On top of that, Peter seems to want to marry her! What's a girl to do?
This book sounds so funny and interesting...but I just couldn't get into it at all. Peter was interesting, but with the story being told from Leslie's point of view the reader doesn't get much of Peter's personality and life except in the interactions with him, which for most of the book is very few.
In fact, for the first almost half of the book we get very little interaction between Peter and Leslie. So it's a bit of a surprise when all of a sudden Leslie realizes that she's in love with him. The few interactions between these two characters don't always make sense either. In fact, it's like all of sudden they are together rather than a gradual building of the romance.
The only interesting thing that I could read about was the introduction of this organization that seems very interested in Peter's exploits and eventually kidnap Leslie to convince her to marry Peter and disappear from the limelight. That is the only thing that really peaked my interest in the entire novel.
From the title and description I was expecting a very funny romance story with a man confused about sexual matters and women throwing themselves at him, but him falling for the woman who didn't throw herself at him and was doing her best to get him through this book tour unmolested. I was disappointed by how unfunny the book actually was. I hardly cracked a smile or laugh the entire time I read it.
Overall, it was an okay read, but not something I would recommend.
November 23, 2011
Pretty funny in a silly kind of way. It was a good fluff read.
July 9, 2024
i normally don't give a book less than 3 stars but a whole star got taken off for racism
i saw it at a local used bookstore as part of a book sale and im an adventurous person and a gambler so i don't mind going outside my preferred genres. i shoulda kept this at the store.
pros:
-the premise seemed like fun and i actually know a guy that's over 30 and still a virgin so i thought hey! i might like this
-i can tell how much research the author put into this. the characters info dumping was... a lot sometimes, but i could tell she did a lot of work
-it's a romance written by a woman from the POV of a woman! love that
cons:
-lots of racism and xenophobia that fortunately toned more and more down the closer the end of the book came, but i was so close to putting it in the donate pile several times
-it felt every bit the 20+ years it is. like wow times have really changed since 2002
-didn't like that the end result was going to be giving in to capitalism like no capitalism isn't going to help that village
granted not the worst book ive ever read, but good LORD
i saw it at a local used bookstore as part of a book sale and im an adventurous person and a gambler so i don't mind going outside my preferred genres. i shoulda kept this at the store.
pros:
-the premise seemed like fun and i actually know a guy that's over 30 and still a virgin so i thought hey! i might like this
-i can tell how much research the author put into this. the characters info dumping was... a lot sometimes, but i could tell she did a lot of work
-it's a romance written by a woman from the POV of a woman! love that
cons:
-lots of racism and xenophobia that fortunately toned more and more down the closer the end of the book came, but i was so close to putting it in the donate pile several times
-it felt every bit the 20+ years it is. like wow times have really changed since 2002
-didn't like that the end result was going to be giving in to capitalism like no capitalism isn't going to help that village
granted not the worst book ive ever read, but good LORD
July 15, 2019
This book reminds me of the old Doris Day movies... With a similar Heroine... A bit uptight, filled with good intentions and getting it wrong most of the time... The Hero in the story is a sexy fish out of water. What ensues is a delightfully romantic romp of a book tour. I highly recommend listening to it as well on audible... it really sets the tone.
August 20, 2023
If you’re wondering how I like this book, I willingly left it in my Vegas hotel room in hopes of never seeing or thinking about it again.
May 29, 2012
The Last Male Virgin by Katherine Deauxville
This like this story.
The description of the book I am listing below is from the back jacket of the book. I'm adding it because I believe the one on the Goodreads page does not depict this story.
THE FIRST TIME
It had never happened before, but the man was more than Leslie could handle. She'd expected a great deal of publicity for Dr. Peter Havistock—heck, the hunk had survived a plane crash, spent nearly fourteen years living with a Stone-Age tribe in the wilds of Papua New Guinea, and returned to write a best-selling book about it. But his tour of colleges was too wild: He had the Yalies yowling for more, and the babes at Brown in a brouhaha.
Frankly, Leslie herself had never seen a doctor of anthropology act the way Havistock did. And while his ceremonial g-string was . . . authentic . . . she didn't see the need for him to go flaunting his perfect body on every TV screen across the nation. And then he announced on Harry King Live that he was a virgin! And that he was looking for a wife! And that he'd like to marry her!
Well, she decided, there was a first time for everything....
This like this story.
The description of the book I am listing below is from the back jacket of the book. I'm adding it because I believe the one on the Goodreads page does not depict this story.
THE FIRST TIME
It had never happened before, but the man was more than Leslie could handle. She'd expected a great deal of publicity for Dr. Peter Havistock—heck, the hunk had survived a plane crash, spent nearly fourteen years living with a Stone-Age tribe in the wilds of Papua New Guinea, and returned to write a best-selling book about it. But his tour of colleges was too wild: He had the Yalies yowling for more, and the babes at Brown in a brouhaha.
Frankly, Leslie herself had never seen a doctor of anthropology act the way Havistock did. And while his ceremonial g-string was . . . authentic . . . she didn't see the need for him to go flaunting his perfect body on every TV screen across the nation. And then he announced on Harry King Live that he was a virgin! And that he was looking for a wife! And that he'd like to marry her!
Well, she decided, there was a first time for everything....
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January 26, 2017Dr. Peter Havistock's parents were killed in an airplane crash in Papua, New Guinea when he was 14. He's taken in by the local stone-age, undiscovered tribe and raised until he became their main chief. At 21, he leaves, makes contact with a town and somehow ears a Ph.D, long distance, in anthropology. Now he's on a U.S. book tour sponsored by the Wimberly Foundation with Leslie W. as his babysitter, and it's all going wrong. Peter has been stripping down to the Antorok equivalent of a g-string in his lectures at Brown and Yale. Then he goes on Harry King Live and tells everyone he's a virgin and looking for a wife. The women go nuts, except Leslie, who wants out. She's pretty male dominated, but when Peter starts asking her to marry him and teach him about sex, etc. things go nuts.
I didn't finish this. It got more stupid and unbelievable as it went. Evidently (from reading the end) the tribe is sitting on an oil field and he's trying to rally international support to avoid exploitation AND he picked Leslie as his wife from a picture years earlier. Weird.
I didn't finish this. It got more stupid and unbelievable as it went. Evidently (from reading the end) the tribe is sitting on an oil field and he's trying to rally international support to avoid exploitation AND he picked Leslie as his wife from a picture years earlier. Weird.
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June 2, 2011
The title is provocative, the story line and blurb are very promising, but the book ended up only so-so.
Peter is cute, earnest, and funny, but he seemed a bit one-dimensional in his pursuit of Leslie. Katherine Deauxville didn't reveal much of his personality. I could not for the life of me figure out why he was so head over heels for Leslie, who seemed pretty uptight and lacked character and vivacity.
Overall, there were a handful of drop-dead funny scenes, but pages of drawn-out prose and descriptive scenes of high-society DC life in between. Around 120 pages into it, I was disappointed to find myself looking at how many more pages there were until the end. It was tough to finish, but the ending was pretty cute.
Really, this book was a mixed bag. There are better ones out there
Peter is cute, earnest, and funny, but he seemed a bit one-dimensional in his pursuit of Leslie. Katherine Deauxville didn't reveal much of his personality. I could not for the life of me figure out why he was so head over heels for Leslie, who seemed pretty uptight and lacked character and vivacity.
Overall, there were a handful of drop-dead funny scenes, but pages of drawn-out prose and descriptive scenes of high-society DC life in between. Around 120 pages into it, I was disappointed to find myself looking at how many more pages there were until the end. It was tough to finish, but the ending was pretty cute.
Really, this book was a mixed bag. There are better ones out there
July 17, 2012
As others have said, the premise and the synopsis on the back promised a delightful romp. It lied. The H...acted like George of the Jungle, but he's a professor?! The h was a stick, and not a very likable stick at that. And then there was the reveal at the end that things were't quite as primitive as he'd claimed. Uh Huh. And what else did you mislead people about Mr? I finished it, and took it back to the UBS ASAP.
October 20, 2009
The cover and title got my attention and attracted me to this book. Unfortunately, I really hated it. What could have been a cute and humorous story was just boring and not at all funny. I struggled to not skim pages at a time. The characters were unbelievable and annoying.
I do not recommend this book.
I do not recommend this book.
March 19, 2015
Entertaining fluff. Great for the plane ride, and sitting on the beach. Passed it along to a young Mexican waiter who was looking for light fiction to read to improve his language skills. Since it was relatively sexless, I had no qualms to pass along.
January 6, 2010
Nothing mush to redeem this. Bored me to tears.
And I normally LIKE Katherine Deauxville's writing. Maybe I was just in the wrong frame of mind...
And I normally LIKE Katherine Deauxville's writing. Maybe I was just in the wrong frame of mind...
September 1, 2010
I couldn't get past my dislike for the main character. She was just unhappy and bitchy.
July 31, 2011
Pretty good to read when there is nothing else.
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