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Summary: Just So Much Drivel!!
Review: Since I consider "Woman of Substance" to be a benchmark in women's fiction, I have read most of Barbara Taylor Bradford's books. "Three Weeks in Paris" was an utter disappointment and a waste of money. This 'essay' is such a sophomoric attempt that it is hard to believe she actually wrote it. It is filled with cliches, errors, repeated information and a very weak plot. The beginning showed some promise but before long it seemed the author got tired of writing and decided to wrap up quickly and go on to something more interesting. What a shame!
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Summary: NOT TOO GREAT
Review: Sorry I did not wait to buy this book used. Was not worth the full price I paid.....The main characters were very predictable and kind of boring....You know from the start where this story is going....Too much descriptions of the streets of Paris and houses....The story is about four women who return to Paris 7 years after graduating from Anya Sedgwick's School of Decorative Art....These women were best friends while attending school, but had a terrible fight and left after graduating. each persuing her own life and career without contacting each other all the years since..... They each received an invitation to attend their beloved teacher, Anya's 85th birthday party......They all attended and the rest of the story is spent rekindling old memories and revisiting all their old haunts.....etc. etc...If you want to read this book I suggest you borrow it from your library.
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Summary: Three Weeks in Paris
Review: Take away the descriptions of meals, clothes, and room decor and you are left with a not-very-good short story about four immature women. Don't waste your time. If you must, check it out from the library.
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Summary: engaging relationship drama
Review: The four young ladies were best of friends while apprenticing at the Paris School of Decorative Arts. However, by the time they graduated, they detested each other. Each went her separate way and quickly succeeded in their chosen endeavor. In New York's theater district, Alexandra Gordon designs sets. In Scotland, Kay Lenox designs clothing. In California, Jessica Pierce conducts interior design. Finally in Italy, Maria Franconi works for her family clothing business.
Less than a decade has passed and now their mentor Anya Sedgewick is the guest of honor at her eighty-fifth birthday celebration in Paris. All four of her former students want to attend, but not see the other three except for some morbid curiosity about their former friends. However, each one would do anything to pay homage to Anya so the quartet converges on Paris for three weeks. Will Paris enable the women to regain paradise lost as the women, though a success, remain unhappy and feel they left something behind during their student days here?
THREE WEEKS IN PARIS is an engaging relationship drama due to Anya serving as a focal point for the other cast members. Anya is a great character who behaves like a Grand Dame teacher. However, in spite of diverse heritage and different current occupations and locations, the female foursome seems interchangeable as none of them stand out from the group. Barbara Taylor Bradford provides a heated tale, but requires one day of reading if the audience is to remember whose whom. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Mushy and gushy
Review: the grease just drips off of this tome....
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Summary: Same author?
Review: This author just can't be the same person who wrote "A Woman of Substance." It was such a tremendous book but they have gone down hill from there and has now ended up in the bottom of the barrel.
This book spends much time developing the characters, but when you find out what the "big quarrel" was, you just want to say, "Get over it". This is a quarrel high school girls would consider major and these characters (30+) carried on for 7 years over that little incident? It was a disappointing and boring book. You would be wise to save your money. If you must read it, get it from the library -- but believe me, nothing happens in it. How do the author's get these types of books published? Because their names will sell anything - boo!
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Summary: JUNK
Review: This book could have been half as long if you take out all the long boring descriptions of everything. BTB gives way too much information about what the room looks like, what the characters are wearing, etc. Using your imagination is one of the great things about reading a book. I should have learned from the last BTB book I read. This one is the last.
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Summary: There are too many books to read to waste your time on this
Review: This book could have been half as long if you take out all the long boring descriptions of everything. BTB gives way too much information about what the room looks like, what the characters are wearing, etc. Using your imagination is one of the great things about reading a book. I should have learned from the last BTB book I read. This one is the last.
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Summary: Remember the movie "Beaches"?
Review: This book reminds me a lot of that movie, which I loved. In this book about friendship and love we find four friends who have not communicated with each other in many years.
Once upon a time, these friends were inseparable. They attended the same Art school and you never saw one without one of the others. That is, until one of them makes the others cannot forgive. Eventually none of the four are even speaking to each other until a surprise FED-EX envelope mysteriously appears, forcing them together again - to hate or to love. Each girl has a story of her own. Each girl believes without doubt she is right, and each has a story never told. But there just may be magic in the air in the form of an 85 year old lady named Anya. Watch for a surprise!
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Summary: Terrible!
Review: This book was one of the worst I have read in a long time. Don't waste your money! It was extremely short and most of it was spent introducing the characters, none of which were interesting. The 'huge fight' that separated the 4 main characters was insignificant, none of them could even remember the exact details. These women were selfish and immature.
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