Cowboy

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Summary: A Wonderful Love Story
Review: Since I am in the midst of a wonderful relationship with my own cowboy right now, I had to read Sara's account of her Zack. It is a passionate reminder that true love can sometimes pass us by because of our preconceived ideas of what true love really entails. Hooray for Sara Davidson for putting down on paper what I am feeling every day of my life right now. Since I realize that it could end at anytime because of our differences, I look forward to each new day and celebrate each day that I can spend with him. My cowboy is 11 years younger, and has awakened the same passions that Zack awakened in Sara. I am reading the book for the third time. Her writing style leaves you spellbound and unable to put the book down until you've read it all.

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Summary: Thank god I'm not the only one!
Review: Thank you Sarah Davidson! Two years ago I began a similar relationship with a commercial fisherman--I'm a technical writer. At first, my friends and family thought I was nuts, but after getting to know this wonderfully gentle, loving and ingenuous man they tell me I'm the luckiest woman in the world. So what if he wears 15 year old shorts sewed together with fishing line and thought the Internet was some new type of fishing gear. Sarah has shown that overcoming the stereotypical relationship can be difficult, but in the end the rewards are very much worth the trials, tribulations and the effort.

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Summary: wishy-washy older woman finds gratifying sexual relationship
Review: The only reason I picked up the book was because I read a decent review of it in the N.Y. Times. Frankly, the book didn't thrill me... it lacked depth. I could not warm up to the main character, Sara, a 49-yr. old divorcee with two (somewhat bratty) kids who had a fairly decent career on a tv show set. But it seemed like all she did was complain and feel that she was deserving of more than she had. When she meets Zack, the cowboy/wrangler/artist/free spirit, they begin a relationship. I think Sara's character tried to make it sound deep, but reading this book, I thought she was just recounting how Zack awakened her sexuality. There is nothing wrong with that at all, but there's a gigolo aspect to the relationship. Zack has no money - nada, zip, zilch - and she pays for everything, subsidizes his rent, pays for plane tickets. Hello?!?! Can you say "How much do you charge per hour?!?! This book was tolerable for reading on the subway, or maybe on the beach in the summer... a no brainer, and I don't feel any deeper, or touched or moved by having read it. Maybe I should have waited till it was available in the library.

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Summary: Guys should read this too !
Review: This book answers Freud's immortal question "What do Woemn Want ?" They want a man who will love and adore them, pamper them, listen to their problems with real empathy and sympathy,stand up for them when the world is down on them, and give them mutally grat and loving sex. After aparade of neurotic movie excs that's what Sara Davidson foud in Zack, a cowboy and a gentleman. Maybe he didn't go to Harvard but he has thewisdom of the heart (which women want more than intellectual expertise) and is no dummy just because he hasn't read John Iriving (in fact that may be in his favor, if you ask me.) This ia sexy, honest story and a great guidebook for men who want to know what women really want. It was recommended by my girlfriend and our life has been better since I read it - and started to put it into practice.

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Summary: Guys should read this too !
Review: This book answers Freud's immortal question "What do Woemn Want ?" They want a man who will love and adore them, pamper them, listen to their problems with real empathy and sympathy,stand up for them when the world is down on them, and give them mutally grat and loving sex. After aparade of neurotic movie excs that's what Sara Davidson foud in Zack, a cowboy and a gentleman. Maybe he didn't go to Harvard but he has thewisdom of the heart (which women want more than intellectual expertise) and is no dummy just because he hasn't read John Iriving (in fact that may be in his favor, if you ask me.) This ia sexy, honest story and a great guidebook for men who want to know what women really want. It was recommended by my girlfriend and our life has been better since I read it - and started to put it into practice.

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Summary: Vulgarity and Exhibitionism
Review: This book is proof that sexual bragging is no more attractive in a woman than in a man. Since Davidson has gone to the trouble to write an entire "novel" based on her conquest, she must believe she is very interesting indeed. Alas, I am unconvinced. I find her book distasteful, and her values - in a word, reprehensible. I wonder if she considered what her children will feel when they read about their mother's exploits. This is a very vulgar book, and Davidson is, obviously, beyond shame.

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Summary: The thinking person's answer to the Horse Whisperer
Review: This is one of the most honest, gripping, romantic, sexually compelling and haunting stories I've read about love. It made me hate my marriage and now my husband hates Davidson. Seriously, the message is inspiring: that it's never too late for love, never too late for physical bliss. I especially liked the parts about parenting, and the chaos that erupts when your kids go to war with your new mate.

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Summary: After reading this, I will look at cowboys a different way!!
Review: This was a book I just could not put down!! Although at times, I felt she was putting Zach down a lot, he always came back!! I feel that it was a great love story between two people who had nothing in commom, but still had the guts to go after who they wanted. I think that this book also portrays men in a very sexy way, if you like the "cowboy way!!"

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Summary: Ride 'em Cowboy
Review: This was a good story, a sexy tale, an interesting peek into someone's life. I read it in a 2 hour sitting. The writing was precise, the story was compelling. Putting the notion of "cowboy" aside, what man has never heard of the Holocust? And what woman could put up with a man like that? This book answered these questions and more. Slightly disappointed with the rambling ending, but would recommend this book for a fast, satisfying read.

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Summary: More invented showbiz than a real book
Review: To hear Sara Davidson tell it,she first wrote this book as a novel,only to have her advisers say it was flat as an old pancake .On the advice of marketing experts, it was sauced up,called a memoir, and will no doube become a movie,if not a video series. This is not a book .As Davidson said in her talk at the Los Angeles Times bookfest,it mixes fact and fiction to get sales . As for the cowboy. Davidson introduced him on the Roseanne show . The guy is a grandfather,inarticulate,and says he does not live with Davidson . So what have we got here ? What we have is Madison Avenue salesmanship,turned on at full blast to sell a product.This Davidson production is proof that just as America's newspapers and magazine have been dumbed down to sell folklore to semi-literates, the book business has been dumbed down even more in search of market share . Davidson might say, " So what, its entertainment." I say that when book publishers merge fact and fiction to sell the product, they are selling damaged goods to an innocent audience.This book should be looked as only as an example of the length to which the media industry will go to make a dollar .Questionable performance by all hands.Davidson will NOT wreite a book on ethics, that's for sure !