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Summary: The Last Time Adler Saw Paris
Review: Adler has such marvelous talent, but I found this book a travelogue with sex and no development of plot. I have read her earlier books and wonder how she has drifted so far off course. This is a work beneath her abilities and I'll be wary of even picking up her next attempt.
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Summary: Light Reading and very enjoyable
Review: By its title, I assumed that the book would be about living with past memories and depressing. However, once I started I could not put it down. It was action driven, who-done-it that kept me reading and curious about what's next. As we travel thru France, every stop was about a real place and the descriptions capable of taking you there. As I read the next progression, my curiosity was about the developing relationship that kept me wondering how this woman's heart/mind will handle it. It is great to read a story of a middle aged woman who achieves personal growth, works out the situations, and is OK after 25 years of marriage. This book takes you thru geographical (to France) and emotional (revising memories) travels. It makes you reflect on life and what we think we remember (present memories are different than what really happened, things are no longer there as we expect them, and certainly people change as well as relationships). Take a break from the type of novels you prefer.
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Summary: Elizabeth Adler did it again.
Review: Elizabeth Adler's books always entertain, they always bring smiles to my face and sometimes an ache in my heart, I'm so involved with her characters, but it's hard to beat Lara and Dan in Last Time I Saw Paris. Read and enjoy a vicarious trip through France given to you by a master of descriptive narrative - you'll believe you were there and since Ms. Adler tells us all the places she visits are real, you could in fact go there. Which is exactly what I plan on doing - with a husband who hasn't dumped me for another woman I'm glad to say.
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Summary: I saw Paris again!
Review: How talented she is! Elizabeth Adler made another classic! I recently read "The Last Time I Saw Paris", and thoroughly enjoyed it. I travelled with Lara and Dan, ate at the restaurants, savored the food, and even walked the streets of southern France. I too have a love affair with the magical city of Paris - and with France, and the writer brought the locations alive in a very special way. And, as well, she shared Lara's personal conflicts and emotions until Lara becomes 'her own woman'. I heartily recommend to all women of 'a certain age', to all travellers - and to lovers.
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Summary: I saw Paris again!
Review: How talented she is! Elizabeth Adler made another classic! I recently read "The Last Time I Saw Paris", and thoroughly enjoyed it. I travelled with Lara and Dan, ate at the restaurants, savored the food, and even walked the streets of southern France. I too have a love affair with the magical city of Paris - and with France, and the writer brought the locations alive in a very special way. And, as well, she shared Lara's personal conflicts and emotions until Lara becomes 'her own woman'. I heartily recommend to all women of 'a certain age', to all travellers - and to lovers.
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Summary: Did Adler really write this???
Review: I am a huge fan of Elizabeth Adler (Legacy of Secrets and Fortune is a Woman are two of my favorites) but if I didn't know better, I would think that this book had been written by Danielle Steele, and I don't mean that as a compliment! Adler should have just written an article on France and submitted it to a travel magazine, would have made for more interesting reading. This book was very boring, and the main characters unbelievable.
I kept wondering, "who is paying for all this??"
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Summary: A disappointed effort, 2 1/2 stars, really...
Review: I bought and read this book on a whim, as it is out of the usual realm of fiction that I read, but it came highly recommended and so I gave it a try. At first, the novel held my attention. I read the first 100 pages in one sitting and enjoyed them. The plot line was interesting...woman turns 45, discovers husband has taken lover, and so she seeks comfort in the strong and sexy arms of her 32 year old deck repairman. Simple enough, but still believable. It was in the next 200 hundred pages, that the book lost me. The protagonist, Lara, and her new, younger lover, Dan, take off to Paris, and for Lara, this is the much dreamed about 2nd Honeymoon that she had taken a year to plan for her husband and herself. Lara and Dan find themsleves visiting many of the old haunts of the original honeymoon, without Dan's knowledge of this fact, and much to the misery of Lara. Simply stated, this book read like a tour guide to France, and as someone who hasn't had the pleasure to visit the country, it couldn't hold my attention. I found myslef skimming many of the overbearing details, much too many in French BTW, just to get to the basic plot line. In my opinion, if the author had just stuck with writing a work of fiction instead of trying to weave so many details of the places AND people AND food that she encountered while in France, I could have given this book a much higher rating. Instead, I felt like at least 1/4 of it was spent discussing French food and wine, while another 1/4 discribed the French countryside.
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Summary: So Real
Review: I cannot recommend Elizabeth Adler's THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS highly enough. I loved it! She makes it all so real, and brings Paris with its restaurants, cafes, bars, shops, museums to such large life, I wanted to be there, and in magical Provence and the Cote d'Azur. In this book, I could almost smell the lavender and rosemary and the sea. Elizabeth Adler also drew me into the love story of Lara and Dan, as well as Lara's search for the woman she feels she has "lost somewhere on the road of life". ( a road whose emotions many woman will idenify with). She does this on an intimate, sensual level, expressing Lara's doubts and fears as well as the new pleasures her younger lover,Dan,brings to her life. It's a MUST read!
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Summary: Loved This Book!
Review: I don't usually 'review' books but I had to write about this one. I want to say I loved The Last Time I Saw Paris. I've read it twice and passed it on to my friends. If you've never had a great love affair - then learn about it from Ms Adler. And if you've never been to France, then go with her in this book. Loved it.
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Summary: Loved This Book!
Review: I don't usually 'review' books but I had to write about this one. I want to say I loved The Last Time I Saw Paris. I've read it twice and passed it on to my friends. If you've never had a great love affair - then learn about it from Ms Adler. And if you've never been to France, then go with her in this book. Loved it.
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