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Title: Puerto Vallarta Squeeze: The Run for El Norte by Robert James Waller, James Waller ISBN: 0-446-51747-X Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: October, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (16 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Unbelievable....
Comment: Waller is usually awesome...but I think he missed it on Puerto Vallarta Squeeze. Not that I wasn't entertained, because I was...in a mindless sort of way. The book is a made-for-tv script just waiting to happen! But mediocre Waller is better than most at their best....so buy this book....used if possible.
Rating: 4
Summary: ~A journalist, a hitman and a beautiful senorita~
Comment: I found this little book a pleasant surprise. Robert James Waller is difinitely a romantic kinda guy in more ways than one. His characters are so carefully crafted that one is sure they know someone just like them.
The journalist, Danny is an American taking it easy for a while in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Living off his residuals enjoying the good live, he becomes involved with a beautiful young senorita, Luz, when one day a stranger comes into town and changes everything.
Danny finds his world turned upside down but wonders if this situation, albeit a dangerous one, could be the start to a new project that might just bring him the fame and money he had long been dreaming of?
If you are a fan of the author, check this one out it's a quick little run for the border.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great setting, plot, and writing skill
Comment: This book is by Robert James Waller, the author of Border Music and "Bridges of Madison County". I happened to buy this book on the way to Mexico, which was neat because the book takes place in Mexico. The only problem with this book is that it is too hard to find! I loved the plot: Danny is an American author who is down in Mexico, supposedly coming up with story ideas, but actually just lying around in the sun with all the other gringos. His girlfriend is Luz Maria, a Mexican peasant girl who has made her way up from a tiny village called Ceylaya, where she was the youngest of many siblings, all boys, which put her at the very bottom of the rung. Danny more or less takes Luz for granted and doesn't really go out of his way to make her happy. One day they are in a cafe and they witness a murder. The murderer asks Danny for a ride to the U.S. border, and Danny, thinking he could get a good story out of it, says yes. On the way, many unexpected things happen: the twisted life of Clayton Price, an expert shooter, Vietnam sniper, and a current "Shadowman" (aka hired killer) for the U.S. government, the complicated details of Danny and Luz's relationship, and many other side plots.
Robert James Waller always writes realistic stories, never with a happy-ever-after ending that readers complain about but secretly hope for, and this book made me cry more than any other book ever has. It also gives a perceptive and seemingly accurate glimpse into the lives of Mexicans, especially the hardships of Mexican girls, which are humbling, frightening, and sad at the same time. Robert James Waller is an author of sad, romantic traveling tales, and if you are in the mood for a heart-breaking book, pick up "Puerto Vallarta Squeeze."
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Title: Old Songs in a New Cafe by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0446517984 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 12 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: One Good Road Is Enough: Essays by Robert James Waller by Robert James Waller ISBN: 081381880X Publisher: Iowa State Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0446516538 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Just Beyond the Firelight by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0813801672 Publisher: Iowa State Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Border Music by Robert James Waller ISBN: 0446602736 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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