Cowboy

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Summary: It's no Loose Change but compelling in its way.
Review: Loose Change is a never-to-be-forgotten book about the 60's and this is an easily-forgotten guilty pleasure, but a pleasure while reading it. Flimsy but stylish, the bottom line for me was the same as another review - her children must have been mortified. I wish I hadn't been so intrigued when I saw Davidson on a CSPAN panel of writers. Ran right out and bought it. But ... it was pretty entertaining. Very good beach read.

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Summary: slow - boring
Review: Mary Chapin Carpenter does not sing "Independence Day" - Martina McBride does. She got a bum - not a real cowboy. Being born and raised in the West, this is not your typical cowboy, he's a bum. Makes all the hard working, independent, financially responsible real cowboys look bad.

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Summary: Couldn't put it down, a great ride!
Review: My girlfriend bought this and I picked it up out of curiosity, expecting to flip through it and put it right down. But from the first page, I was hooked. I didn't move for the next five hours. It's an amazing story, funny, real, incredibly sexy, and inspiring. It makes you appreciate your partner, if you have one. If you don't, it gives you hope. Highly recommended.

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Summary: What's Really Important?
Review: My shrink says I should date worldly men since I'm a complex creature. But I've always loved "cowboy" types and this book explains why;....When a girl's had a bad day, a cowboy will just wrap his arms around her 'n make her feel safe.....A CEO doesn't want to hear about it, he's got problems of his own...... but he'll gladly pay for her shrink.
I LOVED this book, Sara. It was magical. And knowing.

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Summary: What's Really Important?
Review: My shrink says I should date worldly men since I'm a complex creature. But I've always loved "cowboy" types and this book explains why;....When a girl's had a bad day, a cowboy will just wrap his arms around her 'n make her feel safe.....A CEO doesn't want to hear about it, he's got problems of his own...... but he'll gladly pay for her shrink.
I LOVED this book, Sara. It was magical. And knowing.

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Summary: Head 'em up and move 'em out.
Review: Roughly the same age as Davidson I have long since come to the conclusion that our generation's greatest talents lie in the areas of drug/alcohol abuse, self-absorption and making money. Not content to leave well enough alone (read her 'Small Change' if you are a real glutton for punishment), Davidson plants herself in the vanguard of yet another state of higher evolution of the species (smart women with younger, ill-educated men). The core myth her work springs from is that humankind made a great epochal leap forward thanks to those kids at UC Berkeley in the 1960's. Giving narcissism a bad name, Davidson winds through more details of this latest spiritual journey to 'true love' than a reasonable person should have to bear. I soon come to admire her hunk Zach, mainly because he doesn't read. More works like this and I won't either. Another interesting (!?) thing about this book is that it is that peculiar and very popular hybrid which is either a non-ficion novel or a fictitious memoir. Dispensing with mere 'facts' in search of loftier 'emotional truths' we have this entire body of literature which seems to want it both ways. This book will sell a gazillion copies because it is a 'true' story. As a novel it would more likely head off to the obscurity it so richly deserves.

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Summary: Riveting read! True and lasting love finds a way to survive
Review: Sara and Zack could not have been more different unless they came from Mars or Venus. The author, suffering from a small dose of lack of self esteem and and overwhelming dose of spoiled children of divorce, shows us all the glories and warts of true and lasting love. I agree with her -- everyone needs a COWBOY if he is as caring and loving as Zack. The fact is stated that she had attended prestigious universities and he was uneducated; however, he was much more attuned to himself that she was. Speaking of culture shock. Give him credit for tenacity. Most men, or even women, would have skedaddled back to the ranch long before he took his "short hike" to Arizona. Could not put it down once I started. Good luck to both Sara and Zack in the future.

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Summary: Working mother finds a real man capable of love.
Review: Sara Davidson has met her match and he comes from another world. But she is willing to let him into her life and she is wonderfully willing to let us know all the intimate and poignant details of how it does and doesn't work. This is a delicately and warmingly drawn picture of a hard working mother trying to survive in a harsh Hollywood reality who meets up with her true partner, a real cowboy and a really loving man. Without limits she enjoys him and she shows us how to let it loose and take it in. The differences between them are money, culture and power and those things melt thorugh their chemistry and their open expression toward one another. I couldn't put it down because I felt Davidson was having a personal conversation with me that barred no boundaries and wanted to be honest. Can't ask more from an author who is willing to share who they are and how they learn about life.

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Summary: A terrific read for women home alone at night.
Review: Sara Davidson's latest is a gem--the perfect antidote to disappointing relationships with overly self-absorbed men. The book is heartwarming, heartfelt and the character of Zack will inspire hope in the hearts of women who have loved the wrong men too much. I simply couldn't put it down.

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Summary: Ho hum...
Review: She writes for the New York Times; he's never heard of it. Can this couple find true love? A good premise for a light-hearted sitcom -- a version of Notting Hill, in fact -- but not a serious, self-conscious book. This is one of those New Journalism books where the author shares musings that formerly were revealed only in the privacy of the therapist's office. We get detailed accounts of their love-making, of her secret and not-so-secret fears that defy political correctness. Her lover "Zack" doesn't fit with her Hollywood friends and he knows it. In the end he doesn't really try anymore. Long before the end, I began asking, Who cares? The book is an easy read; Davidson is a skilled, experienced writer. But about halfway through I realized there was nothing new here. The real issue, which is briefly dismissed as pre-feminist, is why men are allowed to get involved with unpolished women who have great sex appeal, while women are expected to date and marry upward. A man in Davidson's situation would have fewer hangups about paying to support a woman who was struggling to earn a living as a craftsperson. But we knew that already. We also know that women doctors, lawyers and professors often get involved with blue collar men. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. So what?