The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Author:Max Shulman Meet the Casanova with a crew cut, the irrepressible Dobie Gillis, who left a trail of broken women through the ivy-covered halls of the University of Minnesota and then moved on to fame as the star of a 60s network television comedy series. Says Dobie, "The reason I wanted to go to college was romantic. To be blunt, I was getting nowhere with t... more »he girls back home. All the plums were falling to the baseball and hockey teams. All I could get was what nobody else wanted -- including me. Since I was a red-blooded man of eighteen summers, the situation was not tolerable." Was he successful? Why, he found girls by the score. And his resulting adventures make as mad a series of commentaries on campus life and love as has yet been conceived.« less
1953 edition. Never read the book but watched the old tv series and enjoyed that a lot. The book is a series of stories set on the University of Minnesota campus and was the basis for the tv show.