Fine Things

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Summary: FINE, FINE FINE
Review: Danielle Steel (DS) you have gone and done it again. Hoooray for you. This was a very good story about Bernie Fine---get it FINE---in the title who soars in his professional world of store executive but who flunks out in his private life. He finally finds someone rather late in his early adulthood and he marries her and they spend what turns out to be a short time together. Liz, his wife dies shortly after birth of their child and Bernie is thrown into a world he had never thought he would ever be caught-up in. Then he meets someone else and they live happily ever af ter.

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Summary: Vintage Danielle Steel
Review: Fine Things is the story of Bernard Fine. Bernard is a success in his career at Wolff's. One of the leading department stores. He doesn't have as much success with his personal life. After dating two women who were NOT what his mother approved of and whom ended up breaking Bernie's heart he has given up on love and declared himself married to his job. He is sent to San Francisco to run the store there. He doesn't want to move there and is promised a return to New York as soon as is fit. Bernie meets and falls in love with Liz O'Reilly. Life for the two and Liz's daughter Jane is perfect. Too perfect though as cancer strikes Liz shortly after the birth of their baby. Bernie's perfect world is turned upside down as he has to watch his wife die and keep up some sense of normalcy for his two children. Life isn't very easy without Liz though. One tragedy after another happens to Bernie and the family. Eventually though life turns out to be good for Bernie and the kids.

This was a very good read. It keeps the reader wondering what will happen. I read fast and furious to see what would happen to Liz and after she passed away to Bernie and the children. There is a roller coaster of emotion in this book as there is happiness and tragedy and triumph. The characters seemed to be fairly well written, even if they were flawed. Nanny Pippin was a great asset to the story. I enjoyed her character very much.

This being an older Steel novel I must compare it to recent ones by saying it is much better. There isn't nearly the repitition as is in her newer novels. The characters actually have dimension and have a story to be told. The plot was good too.

If you are a Danielle Steel fan I think you'll enjoy her work. If your new to Ms. Steel and weren't impressed by her recent work try this book out. It is much better and I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

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Summary: Excellent.... but heartbreaking....
Review: Get the Kleenex ready for this one... I don't want to give too much away, so I'll make this review short and sweet. This story will excite you, and warm your heart, then take a tear-jerking turn!!! You'll feel sadness in ways you've never felt before. The movie was just as good as the book in this one. I never quite got over this book. Don't read if you've dealt with a loss of a loved one, or a tragic illness in the recent past!!! But save it... it's a wonderful story.

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Summary: I agree
Review: I am definitely agree with Bookworm who made a review in April 28, 2000 that the book is to repetitive, but I will write some things that Bookworm didn't write.
Since the illness of Liz till she die, are about 60 pages, when you read that she has bone cancer you just know that she will die, D S could write all this lines in less than 20. Another thing is that when the biologic father of Jane ask Bernie for money and his attorney told him why he didn't adopt her, he must adopt her immediately after he paid Chandler why didn't he?
When the judge say to Bernie that Chandler has the right to see his daughter once a week, that is OK because he is her natural father, no matter if he was in jail or if he didn't see his daughter in 9 years, but when he kidnapped her in the first visit, he took her out of the country with a fake passport in a stolen car, he didn't see his parole officer in more than two weeks and the judge give him (Chandler) his child again that is really pathetic, if those are the laws in California, thanks God that I don't live there.
The way that Chandler die is really unbelievable. and with that the book has to be finish, I don't know why it continue.

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Summary: The most beautiful love story I ever read!!!
Review: I love all of Danielle Steel's books and this is my all time favorite! I seen the movie also and I cried during both! Bernie Fine is positively a womans dream caring for his dying wife and then fighting to keep her daugther with him after she passes away. Truly heartwarming. A must read book and also a must see movie!!

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Summary: You'd think DS was a man!
Review: It's amazing when you read some of DS stories, and they are written from a man's point of view...I'm a woman, but I think she does a very convincing job of placing herself & the reader in their shoes. This is such a great story, I like to read about places & things I haven't experienced. And this story takes you to a place & life style not everyone knows, it's very interesting.

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Summary: Wonderful story - AND movie
Review: This book is just wonderful in so many words. It shows how you can go on after a heartbreaking loss of a spouse, and the challanges that you must face afterwards. I loved it.

Only problem is when i start reading danielle steel books, I keep reading one after another, and my husband tells me i dont spend any time with him..he'll say, "here hug a book! hug a book! you dont wanna cuddles with me so HERE HUG A BOOK!"

sweet thing...anyways, read this it is wonderful

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Summary: Steel Does A Fine Job!
Review: This book was amazing!!! The things that go through your mind while reading this book are indescribable. This has to be by far the best book I have ever read. After Bernie Fine moves to San Francisco on business and gets his life together it becomes an amazing fairy tale that every girl wishes for but soon after tragedy strikes it all seems to fall apart. But with an excellent ending it all comes together. An important point to this book is how it twisted the norm, it always seems as though it is the women left to pick up their shambled lives while raising their children after dealing with some tragedy, but this book did a fine job of showing that that is not always the case. I truly enjoyed this book and could not put it down after I had started it. Another excellent job done by Danielle Steel.

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Summary: Real tear-jerker!
Review: This is a superb story of a young mother who finds a man to love, and who loves her. Her little girl loves the man, too, and so they all get married. He's Jewish and she's Christian, and her mother-in-law has her doubts about the marriage, but she eventually learns to love the young woman and her daughter.

As the months go by and she becomes pregnant with her little boy, she finds out after the birth that she has cancer. This is a very trying and difficult time for Bernie Fine, the young man who has waited all his life for his dream girl, now with the thought of losing her to a terrible, uncurable disease.

Fine Things was made into a movie of the week, and it is one of the finest Danielle Steel movies ever made. It ranks 2nd in my opinion poll, right under The Promise with Kathleen Quinlan and Steven Collins.

Little Noley Thornton (alias Heidi) stole my heart in the TV movie of Fine Things. I love everything this child is in, but especially this movie.

Both the book and the movie are worth buying, and I give them both five stars!

Rating:
Summary: Real tear-jerker!
Review: This is a superb story of a young mother who finds a man to love, and who loves her. Her little girl loves the man, too, and so they all get married. He's Jewish and she's Christian, and her mother-in-law has her doubts about the marriage, but she eventually learns to love the young woman and her daughter.

As the months go by and she becomes pregnant with her little boy, she finds out after the birth that she has cancer. This is a very trying and difficult time for Bernie Fine, the young man who has waited all his life for his dream girl, now with the thought of losing her to a terrible, uncurable disease.

Fine Things was made into a movie of the week, and it is one of the finest Danielle Steel movies ever made. It ranks 2nd in my opinion poll, right under The Promise with Kathleen Quinlan and Steven Collins.

Little Noley Thornton (alias Heidi) stole my heart in the TV movie of Fine Things. I love everything this child is in, but especially this movie.

Both the book and the movie are worth buying, and I give them both five stars!