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This is the book that became one of the most famous movies about divorce ever produced. Oliver and Barbara Rose thought they had a perfect marriage, only to discover that their relationship was barely skin deep. Beginning with destroying each other's most prized possessions, the relentless war they wage against each other eventually descends into brutality and then spirals uncontrollably into madness and chaos.

The global impact of both the book and the movie, now considered classics, has brought the phrase "The War of the Roses" into the accepted jargon describing the terrible hatred and cruelty engendered in divorce proceedings.Download Description
The Classic Story of a Nasty Divorce. This is the book that inspired one of the most famous movies about divorce ever produced. Shown somewhere in the world every week, the movie is an excellent adaptation of the book that has been translated in almost every language on the planet. It tells the story of Oliver and Barbara Rose who thought they had a perfect marriage, only to discover that their relationship was barely skin deep. The war they wage against each other eventually escalates into brutality and madness as they throw caution to the winds and destroy their most prized possessions as they spiral into chaos. The impact of both the book and the movie have made them both classics and brought the title The War of the Roses into the accepted jargon describing the terrible hatred and cruelty engendered in divorce proceedings. A Major Motion Picture starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner released by Twentieth Century Fox. ... Read more

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how can this book be out of print
Very very funny book.Stayed up late, read it in one sitting, laughing all the way. NO way this book should be out of print. Dan has talent in the same league as Sedaris.

Negative, Realisitic, and Gritty, but the best book ive read
I was obsessed over the movie for a long time and when I read this book it had the same theme and characters but it was vastly different than the movie. The ending was almost the same, but it was shocking how much they did to each other.Everyone seems to think it was about materialism only. I disagree.It was about investing twenty years of your life and wanting something to show for it, and I think their anger and revenge stemmed more from an attitude of 'How dare you waste my life' or 'How dare you ruin our family' that it was more the main theme than the house. The house just happened to be caught in the crossfire. It definetly makes you think, and is by far one of my favorite books.

This book and movie changed my life.
It sent the message that material things can be dangerous in any relationship. I have read this book many times and each time I read it, it reinforces that idea.

Enjoyable
I really enjoyed reading this book.However, this is one of those rare times when the movie is much better than the book.

Hard to find but worth the search
It's Adler's best book, and yes, it's better than the movie.A funny, scary look at how far people can go when everything is at stake. ... Read more

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As an apartment dweller in Manhattan I have always marveled at the way New Yorkers protect their privacy and husband their intimacy in a city of tremendous energy and enormous crowds. Many New Yorkers assiduously avoid their neighbors as a kind of territorial imperative. This is primarily a what if story based on that idea. ... Read more

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Delivering up another one of his delectable Adler-ian twists...
Gawd, I just adore the stuff this man writes!

It'll clobbers you right in the ticker, these stories will.

Here I am, in Prague, rolling with Adler's narrative punches, as I follow this pied piper of prose with Adler wistfully leading me down a halcyoned path of good neigbourliness -- the kind of path that Caroline, the protag in this little gem of a tale, pines for.

Then, whammo! Suddenly, her husband, Jules, isn't as convinced. "We hardly have time for our own expanded circle," he rebuts.

Yep, sure, I can hear you saying. It's all quite natural. The spouse with the XX-chromosome craves a more fulfilling relationship with the people "who share the same roof" as she. However, Alpha Spouse is typical New York-ian suspicious. Like Forrest Gump, our overly cautious Jules believes in the Cracker Jack Theory of Random Tenancy -- you never know quite what (or, in this case, *whom*) you're gonna get...argh!

So like the striving copywriter she is, Caroline is determined to make her living space a brighter place. She sets out to intrepidly cross her fake smiley 't's' and dot her good neighbourly 'i's.' She offers to walk her neigbour's dog, even offers a helping ear to another.

All quite natural stuff, you're telling me, right?

Until one day, something happens.

But you'll just have to buy this Short to find out...

Okay, tale of the tape time. I'll start with the postives, 'cause that's how life should ultimately be, in my humblest of estimations:

THE POSITIVES:

** if you've never visited New York City before, prepare to gain some very instant knowledge about a "day in the life in the Big Apple." Uhuh, 'nuff said.

** however, if you *do* happen to live in New York, and you seem to have lost your faith in the potential boundless goodness of your fellow man somewhere along the line, then Warren Adler's tale will most definitetly astound you.

Alright, THE NOT-SO-GROOVY REFLECTIONS:

** if you don't live in a city where people make a habit of occasionally being colder than an icebox to each other (this by design!), then prepare to be, er...unpleasantly surprised. Also, if you're the type that doesn't like rude reality checks, then stay right where you are! Don't move a muscle!

** Also, Adler perhaps reinforces the lest-we-forget notion that the System in such large metropolises is sometimes just a wee bit mightier than our lowly selves; though that shouldn't stop you from striving!

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All in all, GOOD NEIGHBORS heralds a hopeful tune for the coming days. Or at least we hope...

In a world gone increasingly mad, we sometimes forget that the very best people are those very same ones who immediately surround us. People like our neighbours.

Warren Adler knows this intimately. But he wants you to know it too.

Five stars. ... Read more

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The children in The War of the Roses were determined not to repeat the devastation, destruction and self-immolation engendered by their parents, which were evoked in that bestselling novel and then the most famous movie ever made about divorce.

In The Children of the Roses, Josh marries Victoria for evermore, and his hugely overweight, happy-go-lucky sister Evie finds pleasure at the trough and through a series of live-in lovers. But in all-too-human, unpredictable and often hilarious turns, the betrayals begin.

Soon Josh and Victoria are on their way to their own form of internecine warfare and disaster. Victorias demonic and male-hating mother and the overstuffed and ever-sympathetic Evie are their constant counterfoils. Antagonists include a suave headmaster, who turns out to be a relentless sexual predator, and a blackmailing husband. The couples children, Michael and little Emily, engineer some stunning surprises of their own that will forever change their parents wayward ways. From noted storyteller Warren Adler, The Children of the Roses is an absolute page-turner.

"A funny new spin on dysfunctional family life-engrossing, unpredictable and touching."--Sidney Sheldon
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Published in hardcover in May 2004 by Sourcebooks, Warren Adler's 27th novel, "The Children of the Roses," is a modern tale of family deception and redemption that follows the second generation of the Rose family, years after the horrific divorce saga so poignantly recorded in "The War of the Roses" (his 1985 novel made into a successful film starring Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner). "The Children of the Roses" updates us with Josh, now a hapless philanderer who just might be in trouble with the mob.But that's the least of his worries: wife Victoria is a vengeful legal shark posing unhappily as a soccer mom; inpoverished and obese sister Evie is selling off her furniture yet still mainlining vintage Bordeaux and Baked Alaska. Add a predatory headmaster and a man-hating mother-in-law, and the stage is et for a rollicking tale of what some people will do --for and to each other - to keep a family together. ... Read more

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Troubling Twist on Divorce
This book made me laugh and cry. Mr. Adler has a bizarre sense of humor that enriches this story and makes it quite believable, despite the qualms I had regarding certain incidents. There is a part of the novel that troubles me and that is the question of how far a parent will go to protect and advance her child if faced with a sexual predator who has power over that child. This issue is a central theme of this wonderful novel. And yet I am still conflicted about that one incident. As with The War of the Roses, despite my misgivings, I thought it was a great read.

BEFORE YOU DIVORCE; MUST READ
The thing about this novel is how through humor and deep characterization we find ourselves entranced by the various and surprising plot turns that move this story forward. I found myself rooting for the children to find ways to bring their battling parents together and restore the family. While I wouldn't want to spoil the reading experience by giving away the ending, I must say it was certainly worth the trip. This book is must reading for anyone contemplating the breakup of a family with children.

MUST READ FOR PARENTS DEALING WITH DIVORCE
Mr. Adler's novel described an experience where my ex-husband and I decided to use the "nesting" process which meant keeping our children living in the family house while we took turns taking care of the children on alternate weeks. It didn't work for us since we found ourselves competing for our children's love and not following our joint child rearing rules.
"The Children of the Roses" dealt with this situation with deep honesty which made the process chosen by the divorcing parents all too real and harrowing. Mr. Adler's incite into the trauma of divorce is awesome. Every divorcing parent should read this book and learn how good intentions can backfire. I found the novel compelling and while the humor is dark, I caught myself laughing through my tears. ... Read more

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Since the fame attending the publication and film of Warren Adler's The War of the Roses, Adler has been chronicling the American experience in novels and screenplays. Now, with Funny Boys, Adler takes on the New York of his childhood in a new novel with bestseller written all over it--a dark comedy of errors about success, the mob, and true love.

Mickey Fine is a young man with a promising future in comedy. Attracted to the applause of the crowd at a lavish hotel casino in the Catskills, he gets a job as a tumler--part entertainer, part host, all funny boy. But he is naïve to the more sinister side of his audience. They are mobsters and power players of New York's scandalous underbelly--men with whom Mickey had run-ins during his childhood.

When Mutzie Feder, a Jean Harlow-esque gangster girlfriend, gets into the act with dreams of escaping her brutal reality, sparks fly between her and Mickey. But as their circumstances start to catch up with them--and the body count starts mounting from the rough crowd they're running with--Mickey and Mutzie start angling for a way out. That, of course, isn't as easy as it sounds.

With film rights already optioned to a major producer, Funny Boys is a timeless love story and a sweeping American tale told as only Warren Adler could tell it. Smart, wry, and beautifully written, it's as unforgettable and authentic as anything Damon Runyon or Ring Lardner ever wrote, from a writer with a keen eye, an acute ear, and a very big heart. ... Read more

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This is the novel that inspired one of the most famous movies about divorce ever made, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Oliver and Barbara Rose are a passionate couple who meet at a Cape Cod auction while bidding for matching figurines. The figurines belong together, and so do the Roses. Their perfect love, complete with dream home and wonderful children, is fated to disintegrate, however, and when Oliver collapses in an apparent heart attack, Barbaras indifference brings the true state of their marriage out into the open. The war they wage against each other eventually descends into brutality and madness, as they destroy each others most prized possessions and spiral into chaos.

The global impact of both the book and the movie has brought the phrase "The War of the Roses" into the popular jargon describing the terrible hatred and cruelty engendered in divorce proceedings.

The Roses bereft children are featured in the novels sequel, The Children of the Roses.
"Warren Adler writes with skill and a sense of scene."--New York Times Book Review

"Warren Adler surveys the terrain [of marital strife] with mordant wit. This accomplished talebuilds to a baleful yet all-too-believable climax."--Cosmopolitan

"The War of the Roses is a clever look at the breakup of a marriage.It is Adlers achievement that he makes the most bizarre actions of each (party) seem logical under the circumstances.Both frightening and revealing."--Washington Star
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On the wrong track...
I have seen several reviews of this book which were negative.I have also seen the movie.The conclusion that I have come to is that most people--including the script writers--have missed the main point of the book.
The impression that I have is that everyone thinks this book is about the moral destruction that divorce can cause.Admittedly, there is a lot of this in the book.Still, I feel that the main point is that the moral destruction isn't caused by the divorce so much as it is the passion for material objects.
The Roses define who they are by what they own, and giving away any part of what they own must therefore diminish who they are.As a result, the only outcome of a property division is obviously a fight to the death.Not even the children matter as much.And the finale, with the children following the parents' footsteps, is truly chilling.One does indeed sympathize with Anne.
In the end, remember that this book was written in 1981.Don't read it as a black comedy on the horrors of divorce.Read it as a black comedy on the horror of the onset of the Yuppie phenomenon.

Cartoonish, yet disturbing novel on divorce
Warren Adler's book "War of the Roses" is actually not well written, but does manage to be disturbing enough.But the cartoonish and irrational escallions of the divorced couple was definately not believable.You feel very badly for the children and for Anne, as both Mr. and Mrs. Rose steam full ahead on a path of destruction which will doom them both.Only merits 2 stars ... Read more

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"Cult" is about a man's desperate attempt to rescue his brainwashed wife from a religious death cult. In the light of the World Trade Center horror, it provides a timely insight into the dangers posed by these destructive organizations. A thriller with a chilling climax, it shows how the power of sinister forces using mind control techniques can turn innocent people into weapons of destruction. ... Read more

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Deserves NO STARS!
This is quite possibly the worst novel ever written.

Cliche after cliche has you cringing.
Shoddy, pop psyschology characterization.
Discursive plot.
Clumsy sentences, just awful.
And as the forward suggests, a transparently dumb attempt to
link a bad idea with a 9/11 marketing notion.

Too bad, because it's a subject that a good novelist might make
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A married Senator, enjoying a tryst at his beach house with a beautiful black woman, discovers that his paramour has accidentally drowned. Aware of the scandal that could ensue and destroy his political career, the Senator mounts a campaign of cover-up and cynical lies designed to deflect the potential damage.

This suspenseful tale of adultery, media manipulation, and political chicanery mirrors today's headlines and provides insights into the dark netherworld of political ambition.Download Description
A Cynical and Clever Cover-up of a Potential Fatal Scandal that Could Cut Short a Senator?s Career. A womanizing married Senator, enjoying a tryst in his Delaware beach home with a beautiful black woman, discovers that his paramour has accidentally drowned. Aware of the scandal that could ensue and destroy his political career, the Senator mounts a campaign of cover-up and cynical lies designed to deflect the potential damage. This suspenseful tale of adultery, media manipulation, and political chicanery has familiar overtones and exposes the dilemma faced by any public figure who chooses the path of dissimulation and lying to protect his or her career. This story mirrors today?s headlines and provides insights into the dark netherworld of political manipulation. Here is a primer for anyone in public life determined to hide his darker side from an overly curious and often predatory press. This is Adler?s first published novel, originally titled 'Options'. ... Read more

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A handsome advertising executive sweeps Jenny, a "nice" girl from the Midwest, off her feet while visiting and they are soon married. Afterwards, he spirits her away to the super-charged world of New York City. A control freak, he warns her to beware of strangers and avoid making friends. But she cannot repress her small town upbringing and instinctive innocence, eventually forming relationships with many of the quirky tenants in their brownstone building and entering into their complicated and sometimes tragic lives.

Jenny's journey of self-discovery from naiveté through disenchantment to eventual wisdom is wonderfully wrought and builds to an astonishing climax.Download Description
How The Frenetic Pace of Big City Life Impacts on a Small Town Girl. The inevitable conflict between country mouse and city mouse gets sophisticated treatment when a small town girl is carried away by her Prince Charmingto the super- charged canyons of modern New York City. Warned by her uptight advertising executive husband to beware of strangers, the newlywed cannot repress her small town upbringing and instinctive innocence. She befriends many of the offbeat tenantsin her apartment building and enters into their complicated and sometimes tragic lives and conflicts. Her gradual discovery of city ways and its crazy quilt mix of diverse people with competing agendas offer a compelling insight into the vast gulf between big city and small town life. Her journey from naiveté through disenchantment and eventual wisdom makes for a suspenseful story of a young woman?s inner turmoil and how culture shock can impact on deeply held values. A must read for those leaving the bucolic joys of small town life for the challenges and dangers of life in the big city. ... Read more

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City mouse/country mouse comedy
Jenny, traditional small-town Hoosier girl, meets Larry, Manhattan go-getter adman. He wants a loving helpmate, she wants a man to nurture. It's a match made in old-fashioned heaven.

As wickedly funny, if not as wicked, as his earlier "The War of the Roses," Adler's "The Housewife Blues"is a classically choreographed comedy of manners. The story, seen primarily through Jenny's eyes, takes place in the small New York apartment building where she spends her days.

Larry, a shark of the new school, warns Jenny against her neighborly inclinations. But Jenny can't help but take an interest in the attractive couple upstairs, inviting them to a down-home dinner which makes Larry writhe in embarrassment and does not elicit a return invitation. And she can't turn a blind eye to the glum couple whose teenage son secretly visits the gay couple in the basement.

Being home all day it's only natural she would accept a package for the brittle career-woman with the clandestine weekend lover or look after the gay couple's errant cat, or offer tea and cookies to the teenager when he loses his keys.

Quickly enmeshed in their lives, Jenny keeps more of her activities from Larry while worrying over his big career move. Appalled and touched to discover that hard-nosed New Yorkers, given half a drop of encouragement, are a lot less reticent about their private affairs than the staid folks back home, she lends a squeamish ear and a generous heart.

Then, at a painfully funny dinner party, Jenny learns more than she wants to know about her Larry. Her coming-of-age is fraught with struggles to keep her comfortable illusions while rationalizing her own secret life.

Adler's style is straightforward and understated, his humor and observation no less sharp for being laconically delivered. Jenny is a delightful character whose plunge into life is wholeheartedly based on optimistic homilies like "People are people everywhere." And if Larry is little more than a cut-out, he seems the sort of handsome mistake a young, naively ambitious girl could make.

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Ken and Sheila Kramer appear to have a comfortable life and loving marriage. But when Ken is introduced to Carol, the wife of his wife's major client, we discover that she is Ken's old flame, the love of his life and the object of his sexual obsession asDownload Description
Two Couples Are Caught in the Deadly Emotional Cross-Currents of Adultery and Deception on an African Safari. When Ken Kramer, an advertising copywriter, meets the wife of his wife?s computer client, he discovers she is an old flame. Baffled by her non-recognition, he discovers that she has totally reinvented herself and snagged a rich husband who has no knowledge of her real early life. Unbeknownst to Ken, his own wife is carrying on an affair with her client. When the old love between Ken and his old love bursts into flames again, the plot thickens as both couples embark of an African Safari with startling and tragic results. This popular novel has been translated into many languages and was sold to the movies for 1.2 million dollars. Inexplicably, it was never made. ... Read more

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Totally mediocre novel about infidelity
"Private Lies" is one of those forgetable novels that rip-off a "bodice ripper" and try to probe serious questions.Well, it doesn't work, but it merits more than one star.Basically, there are two married couples, and everybody is doing everybody else.The adman loves the former ballerina and the computer whiz wants the do-gooder jet setter.A lot of sex ensues and a trip to Africa happens where adman realizes he'll never be Hemingway, and the path to lust and love maybe is cleared when one is the four is killed in an accident.

Love and Betrayal
Ken and Carol meet again, years after the passionate and sultry love affair of their youth.Each married to others, they plot together to endCarol's marriage.They must find a way to keep her wealth from fallingprey to her prenuptual agreement, which could leave her virtuallypenniless, which Ken knows all to well, not being a financial successhimself.This book is so far off the mark - it's really all over theplace, including a Safari complete with raging elephants, a drunken guidewho speaks swahili and sex drives that are just too much to be of anyinterest to the listener (or reader).This is adult material, with far toomuch of the sappy description of private body parts and their functions,usually reserved for the romance novel set.Reader, David Dukes notparticularly proficient at the voice characterizations on this one.Myadvice - don't waste your time on this audio cassette. ... Read more

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Fiona FitzGerald, senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate when a powerful female pro-life Senator is found dead. It appears to be suicide. But the case gets more baffling when one shocking clue contradicts the entire investigation.

Immaculate Deception is the fourth book in Warren Adler's Fiona FitzGerald series. The first mystery, American Quartet, was on The New York Times list of top ten crime novels of the year. Try the other Fiona mysteries: American Quartet, American Sextet, Senator Love, The Witch of Watergate, and The Ties That Bind.Download Description
The clock is ticking away for Fiona FitzGerald . . . both figuratively and biologically. During Fiona?s pursuit to conceive a child before her time is up, a powerful pro-life Senator is found dead in her nightgown. Looks like suicide but Fiona knows better. Things get even more bafflingly when one shocking clue contradicts the whole case. ... Read more

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A Good Amount of Detail
Another great book by this author. If this is your first but them all because you will really be pleased. They are just what I am looking for.Interesting and inventive stories and really grab your attention and move at a great pace.I really believed the hatred and pain the lead character was carrying around with him as he went on the hunt. The action was well written, not immature like so many of this type of book give you.You are really cheering this guy on.

A good read!
The mysteries of Fiona FitzGerald have always approached provocative and daring topics-relations between races, political intrigues and sabotage, S&M. Now in this Fiona tale, she tackles the infamous pro-life battle.As always, very well written and is read in a fast frenzy of page turning. ... Read more

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A charismatic South American Diplomat recruits three Washington women to engage in a bombing plot to kill a political rival. Hungry for the man's sexual favor, the women allow themselves to be manipulated and unwittingly enter into the diplomat's bizarre, destructive and lethal plot. When the women discover each other and learn how they have been duped, they become enraged. Overcoming their jealousy toward each other, they band together to destroy their ruthless lover.

This highly praised erotic thriller is explicit and explores the raw power of sexuality and desire. ... Read more

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Oversexed and characters that are unsympathetic ruin the story...
Warren Adler's "Casanova Embrace" is an overdone and oversexed book about 3 women and their lover, a Chilean in exile. At the beginning of the book, Eduardo the Chilean, is killed in an explosion, and a CIA man tries to piece together the who and whys of the murder. On the way, we meet three women that bore us to tears, and by the time we get to the part where they know they've been had, we don't care.

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Aging Mafia Don Salvatore Padronelli is furious when fanatical Islamic terrorists capture his beloved daughter and grandson on a trip to Egypt. Fed up with ineffective diplomatic measures and a lack of governmental action, the Don and his loyal henchman cleverly insinuate themselves into the White House posing as waiters at a State dinner and take the President and his wife hostage. Now the Don calls the shots.

This classic confrontation between two men on utterly opposite sides of the law is laced with humor and illustrates how fierce paternal love can motivate even the most ruthless of gangsters into reckless acts of courage and bravery.Download Description
A Mafia Don Swings Into Action When Terrorists Capture His Daughter and Grandson. Salvatore Padronelli, a.k.a. the Padre, an aging Mafia Don is confronted with a dilemma when terrorists capture his beloved daughter and grandson on a trip to Egypt. Fed up with diplomatic caution that prolongs their captivity, the Padre and his loyal henchman cleverly insinuate themselves into the White House and hold the President and his wife hostage. Now the Padre calls the shots on getting the President to take steps to release his daughter and grandson. Laced with humor and illustrating how fierce love can motivate even the most ruthless gangsters, the classic confrontation between the Mafia and the President will glue the reader to the edge of his chair. Those familiar with The Sopranos on HBO will see suggestive similarities and overtones in a story that predates that series. Beneath the humor and clever plotting, readers will discover sharp parallels with present realities and discover how the intensity of paternal love can motivate the most reckless acts of courage and bravery. ... Read more

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The mafia takes on the terrorists in dated novel.
In Warren Adler's "We Are Holding the President Hostage", we see things are they were in the mid-80s: geopolitical games with the Soviet Union, the decline of the Mafioso, Lebanon a hotspot for terrorism(hostage taking).In Egypt, a terrorist trys to take a high ranking American official hostage, but the plan is botched and he kidnaps a bystanding American mother and her young child.Little did any know the chain of events that would set off, for the terrorist has the only daughter and grandchild of a powerful Don, who will stop at nothing to have her returned safely.The Don recruits a few loyal men to effect a bold plan: take the President hostage, and force him to go to the mattresses against the terrorists.Some interesting geopolitical manuevering is done, and very good climax.The cliches bring down the novel though, but it was interesting to see the Soviets save the day here. ... Read more

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In this fast-paced thriller, a young New York couple, unable to have children and their marriage on the rocks, is advised to leave their tense urban lives and take a vacation in a more peaceful and relaxed environment. Heading out west, they are pursued by violent rednecks and driven into the wilderness. They soon find themselves battling against the ruthless and relentless cruelty of nature itself. Braving floods, avalanches, wild animals and human predators, they come face-to-face with death. Their terrifying ordeal and the discovery of a powerful instinct for survival gives the couple new insights into themselves as they confront an uncertain future.Download Description
An Unforgiving Nature Reorders an Urban Couple?s Priorities. A young New York couple whose marriage seems to be sputtering and who cannot conceive children are advised to leave their tense urban lives and take a vacation in a more bucolic environment. Out West they are suddenly confronted by rednecks that chase them into the wilderness where they lose their way and are thrown up against the vicissitudes of nature. Braving floods, avalanches, wild animals and human predators, they come face-to-face with death. This test of endurance and their passion to survive gives them new insights into themselves and their future together. This gripping, fast-moving, and suspenseful story will hold the reader?s interest until the last turn of the page. This book was optioned for the movies. ... Read more

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Fiona FitzGerald, senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate a murder with explosive consequences on Capitol Hill. An infamous Washington Post reporter whose poison pen has destroyed many a politician's career is found hanging in her Watergate apartment. "The Witch of Watergate" is dead! Although suicide for this lonely and miserable woman seems the logical conclusion, Fiona is determined to find the truth.

The Witch of Watergate is the fifth book in Warren Adler's Fiona FitzGerald series. The first mystery, American Quartet, was on The New York Times list of top ten crime novels of the year. Try the other Fiona mysteries: American Quartet, American Sextet, Senator Love, Immaculate Deception, and The Ties That Bind.Download Description
A poison pen gets it back. When Polly Dearborn, the infamous Washington Post investigative reporter whose poison pen had destroyed many a politician?s career, is found hanging from her Watergate apartment, the elite of Washington rejoice since The Witch of Watergate is dead.No time for celebrating for Fiona FitzGerald. Although suicide seems so logical for this lonely and miserable woman, Fiona can?t be fooled. Things are made worse when Fiona is assigned to a new partner, a black woman who has a chip on her shoulder against all white people. ... Read more

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A mystery with a bite.
Another Fiona FitzGerald mystery with bite. As with the previous novels, a good read and a lot of fun. ... Read more

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Thirty-eight year old divorcee Grace Sorentino is in a precarious position, upwardly mobile in age, downwardly mobile in income. A cosmetician on Palm Beach's fashionable Worth Avenue, she barely makes enough to keep her 16-year old daughter Jackie in their tiny apartment. Still they're scraping by . . . until Grace loses her job. Hanging on by a thread, Grace reluctantly pursues a cynical and bizarre scheme to snare a rich widower. But when she finally comes within a hair's breadth of her goal, she finds herself enmeshed in a self-spun web of deception and danger that threatens to rob her of everything she holds dear.

Brilliant and bittersweet, daring, erotic and darkly humorous, Mourning Glory pulls readers into one woman's tangled web. Here is another blockbusting and timely novel about the cost of getting what you want -- when what you really want is priceless.Download Description
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Utter Trash
Crude, crass, shameful.I'm ebarrassed to say that I read the entire book (because I had to find out how the author was going to redeem the vulgar protagonist and her daughter by the end of the story - which he didn't achieve).A complete waste of time. Ick.

A new low in the art of the novel!
This book has brought me to tears on several occasions, the first of which was the day I bought it for my wife and discovered shortly thereafter that I'd wasted my money.The second, as you might guess, was when my wife _told_ me I'd wasted my money. I tried to read it myself, and convinced myself that we were both right.This book is a tragic waste of trees and time.Do yourself a favor.Leave this at the bookstore.Get a good night's sleep instead.

Disappointing!
I picked up this book on sale and thought what a treat, since I enjoyed the cynicism and nastiness in Mr. Adler's the War of the Roses... Unfortunately, I have to agree with all the other reviewers who have given this novel a low mark. It was pure dribble all the way through!

don't get other folks ++ review
I got this book in audiobook, which should be really easy to take. It was not. The book is full of overly sentimental sentiments, old-fashioned ideas about male and females roles and relationship, and corny lines. It's plays on the couple's explicit sex life until I start to say "who cares." And, it goes on and on and on--ad nauseum about how guilty the lead character feels. Okay, okay, I get it. I could not even finish the story--and again, it was a book on tape.

don't get other folks ++ review
I got this book in audiobook, which should be really easy to take. It was not. The book is full of overly sentimental sentiments, old-fashioned ideas about male and females roles and relationship, and corny lines. It's plays on the couple's explicit sex life until I start to say "who cares." And, it goes on and on and on--ad nauseum about how guilty the lead character feels. Okay, okay, I get it. I could not even finish the story--and again, it was a book on tape. ... Read more

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With time running short, the lively and intrepid residents of the Sunset Village retirement community in Florida continue to thirst for life. But the true beating heart in these acclaimed short stories is the love of family and friends and the finding of joy in the very act of being alive.

In America, where "old" is a dirty word and people over sixty-five are often treated as if they had a contagious disease, these humorous, jewel-like stories prove our older folks still have a taste for sex, romance, excitement and living. Join the thousands of readers who have let the Sunset Gang into their hearts. They will teach you a lot about the aging process and about life itself - a subject on which they, after all, are the experts.

Made into an acclaimed three-hour trilogy on PBS's American Playhouse, starring Uta Hagen, Harold Gould, Doris Roberts, Anne Meara, and Jerry Stiller.Download Description
With Time Running Short, These Intrepid Residents of Sunset Village in Florida Continue to Thirst for Life and Love. The Sunset Gang is as lively, fun, and courageous a group as you'll find anywhere this side of the Last Reward. The fact that you'll find them at Sunset Village, a condominium retirement community in Florida where an ambulance siren is the theme song and cycling at a stately pace is strenuous exercise does not mean that they are ready to pack it all in. Not by a long shot.Indeed, sex and romantic love keep Sunset Village bubbling with activity. If you were to walk down one of its well-tended paths, you might spot Jenny and Bill sitting on a bench, acting like young lovers, and never suspect that they are married (but to other people). And at the pool Max Bernstein, with an expertise that comes from five decades of skirt chasing, is singling out attractive widows.The real sine qua non at Sunset Village, however, is the love of family and friends. Widowed Molly Berkowitz learns that although her son and daughter may be failures in the eyes of the world, they are well worth bragging about; and Isaac Kramer begins to feel truly at home when the gray-haired boys at the laundromat start calling him "Itch." In America, where "old" is a dirty word, people over sixty-five are often shut out, as if growing old were some kind of contagious disease. But you cannot shut the Sunset Gang out of your heart, and, if you let them in, they will teach you a lot about living a subject on which, after all, they are the experts. A three hour mini-series on PBS's American Playhouse, starring Uta Hagen, Harold Gould, Doris Roberts, Anne Meara, and Jerry Stiller. ... Read more

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I've always been baffled by stories of the often self-destructive nature of teenage conduct. Long after my own experience with my own teenage children, I have learned that what I saw as a parent was not necessarily in sync with what my children saw and experienced. Misperception is another dominant theme in my novels. ... Read more

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I haven't children of my own...
...yet the older I get, the more I'm profoundly and irreversibly affected by the sort of fiction which discusses the acute disaffect between parents and their recalcitrant children.

Author Warren Adler in GONE exquisitely sets the scene for us: an East End McDonald's restaurant in New York, a breakfast of Big Macs and Coke, dark glasses, crumpled $50 bills, and the culmination of a three-year-long estrangement between a wayward daughter, Peggy, and her now-divorced dad.

It's brilliantly told, it's totally heart-wrenching, and it takes us through a gamut of emotions: from uncertainty, to horror, to shared grief, easing into adjustment, then, finally, all the way back to disillusionment (as befitting a short story's "full circle" style)...Adler interjects on himself, cutting himself short at precisely the opportune moment.

When our fictitious Dad reaches out to touch the cold palm of his youngest, his entire being is shaking, and so is ours. It transcends everything which may be swirling about this pair at precisely the moment it happens -- and in the minds of these characters, and ours, it takes precedence over everything else which may be going on in New York's megalopolis of nine million souls.

When Dad tries to peer through Peggy's shielded eyes, we hope for the best but know better -- deep down -- to expect the absolute worst, or so our instincts scream at us to believe.

I'm amazed I'd felt all of this inside of twelve (12) pages, but as Orson Welles once best said it himself -- "it's all true..."

And it's all there for us to read.

Thank you Mr. Adler for sharing such a poignant slice of life. Somehow I'm really glad you're back home, in New York, too. It's missed you. :-)

-- Adam Daniel Mezei, Prague ... Read more

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More Stories From The Sunset Gang. A collection that combines additional stories written after The Sunset Gang was published dealing with the same intrepid crew who inhabit Sunset Village. Anyone who is aging, meaning all of us, will revel in these stories of joy, love, sex, and energy that give a deeper meaning to the aging process, especially in what the young might call the twilight years. In these stories, there is no sense of oncoming doom and life goes on in a perpetual sunset. Anyone who has an older friend or parent will marvel at this wonderful, inspiring collection and enjoy reading and re-reading these stories for years to come. Everyone of us, after all, is headed in the same direction. ... Read more

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funny, well written stories
I really liked this book, but could only give it three stars.The problem was most of the stories condoned extra-marital affairs, and I believe in monogomy so the subject matter was a bit touchy. All the stories take placein a retirement community where a bunch of people live.The women are realyentas (busybodies) and you will especially enjoy the book if you are awareof jewish culture. The best story was the one about a new widower and allthe old ladies who were trying to get their hooks into him.He was totallyunaware of the reasons behind their actions.I also enjoyed the storyabout the old couple whose sons hate each other, and how much the motherwants them to be friends.I can relate, I hate my siblings and they hateme, and there is my poor old jewish mother in the middle!

The book is aneasy, fun read and if not for the extramarital affairs, I would have givenit a 5 ... Read more