Five Days in Paris

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Summary: Stepping Out...
Review: "Five Days in Paris" is a story of a man [Peter] and a woman [Olivia] who find themselves in Paris and help each other find the true meaning of love.

Olivia is in a loveless marriage with a United States Senator more consumed by this career than his wife. She finds herself giving up her life for him. Her existence is filled with compromising her dreams for his career. She, in fact, is just a tool for his political desires.

Peter, a pharmaceutical businessman, is in a marriage of complete compromise. All his compromising that is. Peter bends all the time on almost everything to fit the will of his wife and father-in-law. His wife, who is closer to her father than her husband, literally has it made with Peter right where she wants him.

Then, one fateful business trip to Paris, both Olivia and Peter soon discover love, life, happiness, and freedom with each other. As they discover the bond they share and realize that they were meant for each other rather than the people they are with, both Peter and Olivia decided to step out of their life for a couple of days and pretend they are two different people.

After their wonderful time together in Paris, can Peter go back to a life his eyes are now open to? No longer able to blind himself by the control of his wife and father-in-law? Can Olivia go back to her husband and live as nothing more than a simple tool?

I loved "Five Days in Paris". Let's face it, we all wish we could walk out of our lives for a brief moment or forever and just start over and begin a new life. This book hit home for me. Sometimes I too wish I could just be someone else living another life. I may not have the strength or courage to actually do it like Olivia and Peter... but reading the book filled my imagination with dreams. Too bad I didn't have their courage and strength to just step out of my life and start over... or maybe I do?

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Summary: A very warm and touching story of hope and understanding!
Review: After reading some of the reviews, I had a hard time believing that people could be so hard on this book. I read it in a few hours and it touched me to the point that I could not read another book for a few days. (I usually read a book in 2 or 3 days, and can pick up another book a few hours after I finish one and enjoy the new book) I thought it was hard to get into at first, but then I realized that it was Peter's personality, since he was really the main character. It could touch home to so many people who are trapped in a loveless or unhappy marriage. You just never know when or where you will find love, and what better place to find that perfect sole mate than while spending Five Days in Paris?

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Summary: A winning story to be sure,
Review: Five Days In Paris by super writer Danielle Steel is a wonderful story that was easy to get lost in. I loved the characters and the plot had me eagerly flipping the pages. I think most Danielle Steel fans will agree...this is one book you don't want to miss!

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Summary: I liked it
Review: From my opinion Danielle Steel has had a hard time pulling off the shorter books, however, I did like this one. I thought it was a cute, fun story. Maybe I'm just a sappy romantic. If you're looking for more shorter stories by Steel, the others I liked were The Gift & Special Delivery.

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Summary: Challenge and Betrayal
Review: I am not a big "book reader" but once I started reading this book, I was anxious to finish it to see how it ended. I really enjoyed it. I think you will too.

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Summary: AS ALWAYS A GOOD BOOK
Review: I have read almost all of Steel's books and fell in love with most of them, this one was no exception. I could feel the love between the characters and waited for things to happen.

If you like this book you might also love Stolen Moments by Barbara Jeanne Fisher! It is fantastic, and she very much writes in the same fashion. I intended to give the book a quick read, but I got so caught up in the story that I couldn't put the book down. From the very beginning, I was fully caught up in the heart-wrenching account of Julie Hunter's battle with lupus and her growing love for Don Lipton. This love, in the face of Julie's impending death, makes for a story that covers the range of human emotions. The touches of humor are great, too, they add some nice contrast and lighten things a bit when emotions are running high. I've never read a book more deserving of being published. It has rare depth. Julie's story will remind your readers that life and love are precious and not to be taken for granted. It has had an impact on me, and for that I'm grateful. "Stolen Moments " which is reminiscent of "Love Story" is written with so much sensitivity that it made me want to cry. Like"Love Story" it is about a dying woman who has found true love. It is the love story of the nineties."

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Summary: Worst book I ever read
Review: I read this book in the hopes of learning what made Danielle Steel such a successful writer. I was looking forward to romance, Parisian atmosphere, tension, soap opera...

Blech. This was the worst book I ever read. This author is wasting precious trees, nay forests! Don't buy this book!!! There is nothing redeeming about it.

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Summary: 5 Days In Paris-5 Wasted Hours
Review: I really really like Danielle Steel. Or, rather I used to. She is to the romance genre what John Grisham is becoming to the legal-beagle world. The title , "Five Days In Paris" was provocative. However the content is just too similar to every other Steel sing songy recent book. The plot could have been so much more developed. A bomb scare, two people from America in Paris and they meet. And most know the rest. I must admit, I should have spent the 5 hours NOT reading this mundane novel. Shopping for lug nuts would have been better time management!

Hopefully Ms. Steele will get some--steel & attempt to put a little more grit in her books. Right now she reminds me of a guy dating mother goose!

other reading suggestions: "The Ghost" by Danielle Steel, "Exclusive" by Sandra Brown, and "Ashes To Ashes" by Tami Hoag

I appreciate your interest & comment votes--CDS

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Summary: Its Never to Late to be Happy
Review: I would gladly recommend Five Days in Paris by Danielle Steel for those in need of hope either in love or life. This romantic novel has very vivid imagery, you'll feel like you're there. The reading level in this book is a bit difficult but at the end you get what the author meant by it. The reason I enjoyed this book very much is because the author gets you to care about the characters in a way I haven't in the past. She has you anticipate that the two characters should meet, when? how? what will they say? This is a great novel and again I would recommend this book for those in need of a great story. Its never too late to be happy.

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Summary: The Amazing novel, Five Days in Paris
Review: The book, Five Days in Paris, by Danielle Steel was excellent. It was an incredible mixture of love and loss. Peter and Olivia fall in love in one of the most beautiful places in the world, Paris. When their time there is over and they have to go their separate ways, you can feel the sorrow. The emotion in the story is so real, it's like you are part of it. In this novel you realize how easily things are subject to change. Peter is happily married and so is Olivia, but in only five days their world are turned upside down. All they can think about is each other when they are apart. Love is a very strong tie, and once you have found it you cannot let it go.