Border Music Abridged

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Summary: The Bible for those with gypsy souls...
Review: Robert James Waller's prose reads like poetry. There are images and passages in "Border Music" that stun me everytime with there insight and beauty and passion. I knew when I read the dedication that this work would be a masterpiece. Read it to find out. I think everyone dreams of being like Jack Carmine. Some have the courage to try...

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Summary: The Bible for those with gypsy souls...
Review: Robert James Waller's prose reads like poetry. There are images and passages in "Border Music" that stun me everytime with there insight and beauty and passion. I knew when I read the dedication that this work would be a masterpiece. Read it to find out. I think everyone dreams of being like Jack Carmine. Some have the courage to try...

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Summary: Good plot but a little disappointing for this author
Review: This book is not as good, in my opinion, as some of his other books, such as Puerto Vallarta Squeeze or Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend, but it is still sad, realistic, and a good read. The only criticism I have is that in the beginning, it moves too slow and gives a negative attitude about the plot to the reader. However, as it moves on, it gets rather good. This book almost made memad, the way things turn out, but it also dives into the human indeciciveness between fantasy and reality. This is another sad but interesting book by Robert James Waller, and it is much easier to find than "Puerto Vallarta Squeeze." Though, in my opinion, not his best book, it is certainly good and worthy of the time it takes to read it.

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Summary: Good plot but a little disappointing for this author
Review: This book is not as good, in my opinion, as some of his other books, such as Puerto Vallarta Squeeze or Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend, but it is still sad, realistic, and a good read. The only criticism I have is that in the beginning, it moves too slow and gives a negative attitude about the plot to the reader. However, as it moves on, it gets rather good. This book almost made memad, the way things turn out, but it also dives into the human indeciciveness between fantasy and reality. This is another sad but interesting book by Robert James Waller, and it is much easier to find than "Puerto Vallarta Squeeze." Though, in my opinion, not his best book, it is certainly good and worthy of the time it takes to read it.

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Summary: love it!
Review: This is a story that will haunt your senses forever more. Beautiful imagery, an indirect love story and should teach you alot along the way. Makes you feel that your on the road living each and every chapter.

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Summary: A beautiful book.
Review: This is the first book that I have read by Waller. It is a beautiful story that explains perfectly how the human mind always yearns for somthing that it doesn have. It is also a story of growing old and romance. It follows characters through their depressing pasts living in the midwest. Being only 16 years old perhaps this story would be even more impressive if I were 50 years old because I would then be able to relate more to the novel and how it portrays the lonelyness of getting old. This book gives an insight into the actuall thought process of the hopeless romantic, somthing I have not ever experienced in any other novels.

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Summary: A finely crafted story of loves and sorrows across America.
Review: This was my first R.J.Waller novel and I hope the rest are half as good as this. With the perfect eye for the romance of life on the road, Waller tells the tale of Jack Carmine, a ramblin' Texan veteran with a hide as tough as leather but a soft heart beneath. Although I found myself identifying more with Jack's "Walter Mitty" uncle, it's the road less traveled we come to realize we all eventually want. I recommend it highly.

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Summary: A finely crafted story of loves and sorrows across America.
Review: This was my first R.J.Waller novel and I hope the rest are half as good as this. With the perfect eye for the romance of life on the road, Waller tells the tale of Jack Carmine, a ramblin' Texan veteran with a hide as tough as leather but a soft heart beneath. Although I found myself identifying more with Jack's "Walter Mitty" uncle, it's the road less traveled we come to realize we all eventually want. I recommend it highly.