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Summary: My Life With 3 Women
Review: A powerful, adventurous, true story of 4 stangers who meet for a few days and stick together for a year. THe book works as an adventure story, a human drama, a "sailing in paradise" story and a look at human nature under stress. I really fell in love with the 3 women and came to admire the guy. They're real people. I recommend the book highly. It's well written and puts you rightt here, especially during the survival storm and pirate attack. But above all, the interaction of the four of them moved me the most. I was in stitches over the Pavarotti part. It really has something for everyone. And it's not just a man's book. My wife read it and loved it, passing it on to her friends.Five stars all the way.
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Summary: For Real
Review: I couldn't put this book down. As a sailor, it's scenes of sailing in a tropical paradise made it like being threre. As a human, the story of the 3 women and 1 man and the cirumstances which threw them together was deeply moving. As a romantic, I could see them creating their own little world, and the 3 women deciding to share the only guy around. As an adventurer, I loved the sailing scenes, the survival storm and the nightime pirate attack left chills down my spine. I've never read a book that hooked me and dragged me in like this one. If you love life, adventure, or sailing, or just plain romance, I recommend it highly.
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Summary: My Life With 3 Women
Review: I felt like I was the 5th person on that boat. It was so real, so vivid and powerful. I found this true story of 3 women who share 1 man for a year to be powerful, uplifting, humorous and insightful. I felt like I was in Tonga and Fiji. As a sailor myself, the sailing scenes are classic and true. Only a sailor who's been there could write like that. I felt I was on the boat fighting the storm. Alan's writing puts you right there, in the storm and running from the pirates in Indonesia. Alan and the 3 women are for real. You feel for them, ache for them and laugh hilariously when they drink too much Kava. The book works on several levels: a rip-roaring adventure, a great sailing story, a deeply moving human story, a story of friendships so real you can relate to them and, of course, tropical islands and a share of sex. Four people alone and in trouble find each other and come out on top. Like one of the reviews said, " a must read." You'd better believe it!
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Summary: My Life With 3 Women
Review: I felt like I was the 5th person on that boat. It was so real, so vivid and powerful. I found this true story of 3 women who share 1 man for a year to be powerful, uplifting, humorous and insightful. I felt like I was in Tonga and Fiji. As a sailor myself, the sailing scenes are classic and true. Only a sailor who's been there could write like that. I felt I was on the boat fighting the storm. Alan's writing puts you right there, in the storm and running from the pirates in Indonesia. Alan and the 3 women are for real. You feel for them, ache for them and laugh hilariously when they drink too much Kava. The book works on several levels: a rip-roaring adventure, a great sailing story, a deeply moving human story, a story of friendships so real you can relate to them and, of course, tropical islands and a share of sex. Four people alone and in trouble find each other and come out on top. Like one of the reviews said, " a must read." You'd better believe it!
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Summary: This book reminded me of this joke I heard once....
Review: I'm a good sailor, and a good reader. I was attracted by this book because I love the South Pacific almost as much as girls, and the story sounded promising. In fact it is a good story, but it is written so badly it was a pain to finish the book. It is full of repetitions. I started to be annoyed about at page 19 when he repeated for the third time that "Susan was a neat-freak". OK Alan we got it, but if you say that 3 times during the first 19 pages, and this is a 260 pages book, do mean to repeat that 410 times in total? Other repetitions are "... three cheers for..." or "...the new boat arriving with three woman in bikini and a guy trying very hard to look like a pirate". I mean, if you want to say the same thing again and again at least use different words... Before publishing it should have been revised and cleaned-up by a professional writer! Also, even if the plot is not bad at all, I find Alan a shallow person. His comments about these girls are extremely superficial showing no interest or ability for insight. When he talks about himself it is even worst: no in-depth-thinking at all, only trite and corny reports of his love misfortune. No wonder women use him and do dump him, they are absolutely right!!
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Summary: good plot, very badly written
Review: I'm a good sailor, and a good reader. I was attracted by this book because I love the South Pacific almost as much as girls, and the story sounded promising. In fact it is a good story, but it is written so badly it was a pain to finish the book. It is full of repetitions. I started to be annoyed about at page 19 when he repeated for the third time that "Susan was a neat-freak". OK Alan we got it, but if you say that 3 times during the first 19 pages, and this is a 260 pages book, do mean to repeat that 410 times in total? Other repetitions are "... three cheers for..." or "...the new boat arriving with three woman in bikini and a guy trying very hard to look like a pirate". I mean, if you want to say the same thing again and again at least use different words... Before publishing it should have been revised and cleaned-up by a professional writer! Also, even if the plot is not bad at all, I find Alan a shallow person. His comments about these girls are extremely superficial showing no interest or ability for insight. When he talks about himself it is even worst: no in-depth-thinking at all, only trite and corny reports of his love misfortune. No wonder women use him and do dump him, they are absolutely right!!
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Summary: No Stars!
Review: If this book were a horse it wouldn't even make good glue. First, the author writes this in the third person which, after fifty or so pages, I finally over came. Then he uses italics and quotation catch phrases over and over and over and over - ad nauseum. There is a hint of the erotic, what with three women and just him. But it becomes apparent very soon that he is as bad a lover as he is a writer. A complete waste of money and time.
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Summary: No Stars!
Review: If this book were a horse it wouldn't even make good glue. First, the author writes this in the third person which, after fifty or so pages, I finally over came. Then he uses italics and quotation catch phrases over and over and over and over - ad nauseum. There is a hint of the erotic, what with three women and just him. But it becomes apparent very soon that he is as bad a lover as he is a writer. A complete waste of money and time.
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Summary: What women!
Review: This book is an amazing story of four real people. Sure, it's a man's book, but it's a woman's book as well. I've loaned it to several of my women friends and can't get it back! Just think. Four strangers are thrown together and live in a small space for a year. The women quickly became the best of friends. I loved how they finally got around to sharing Alan, the only man around. I almost felt sorry for the guy, the way they "used" him. What a change from men using women! The scenes where they acidentally got drunk from drinking too much Kava are beyond hilarious. Alan's a real guy, too. Using Pavarotti's tape to cover the sounds of making love on the small boat had me in stitches. But seriously, how could they do it, all stuck on a small boat at sea? I laughed my head off. Then I cried at the tragic events that drove these women from their homes. I was scared to death during the pirate attack and almost got sea-sick during the killer-storm. But what stuck with me most was the deep friendships they developed for each other. They create their own little world for a year on that small boat. We need more love, friendship and
caring in our much bigger world. Five stars, for sure!
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Summary: What a life!
Review: This book was a very easy and relaxing read. If you enjoy the sea and a fairly fast moving adventure, then pick this one up. The plot isn't too deep and the action isn't so riveting that you can't put it down, but you can get lost in the romance of their saga. It is a believable story for the most part -- the man/author tells it in 3rd person style -- but I wonder how much of his ego colored the aspects of the women lusting after and seducing him. The ending seems all too sudden and leaves the reader hanging and wondering if there will be a sequel. That was about the only real disappointment I had with the book.
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