Argentina Hotels Travel - Kiss and Tango: Looking for Love in Buenos Aires
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List Price: $24.95
Argentina Hotels Travel Price: $4.92
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Manufacturer: William Morrow
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.8092
EAN: 9780060742928
ISBN: 0060742925
Label: William Morrow
Manufacturer: William Morrow
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2005-06-28
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date: 2005-06-28
Studio: William Morrow
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Extremely bad.
Comment: This book is virtually unreadable. Insofar as plot and characters: vapid, pointless, doesn't go anywhere unless you consider trekking to Buenos Aires with no clear plot point "getting somewhere." Insofar as writing: it is as if someone made notes in a spiral bound journal about her vacation and its aftermath, intended to write a book from them, forgot to write the book, and only published the scribblings.
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Summary: This book is not about the tango
Comment: I can only confirm that this book is not about the tango but mostly about the personality of Marina Palmer. Given that the target group is that of TANGO lovers, not Marina Palmer fans, this book feels like a bait-and-switch.
What it shows clearly, however, is that whatever you do and wherever you go, you will always take yourself along. Being professionally frustrated and having a low self-esteem makes one see the outer world in negative colors and attract wrong kind of people.
I am sure that if Marina Palmer were to enter the world of, say, basket-weaving or table tennis she would find them just as wicked and disillusioning as her world of Argentine tango turned out to be.
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Summary: You've got to be kidding!?!? - Save your money
Comment: I don't normally get caught up with reviews (and so I'll keep it brief) - but this time I believe it is this reader's duty to warn fellow Amazonians. Never have I read a worse book. It is sooo terribly written and says virtually nothing about tango. Save your money and hours of agony. I did like the book cover ; )
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Summary: Don't waste your money
Comment: What a disappointment this book was - great subject (Buenos Aires and the fascinating culture of Tango) handled so poorly. This book actually made me wince at both the incredibly bad writing and the shallow values of the writer. I can't imagine why she would want to publish something so personal, so trite, and so confessional. This is a remarkably bad book.
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Summary: Mildly entertaining, but...
Comment: Sometimes I like reading smut. This definitely ranks as smutty and, as a result, is an entertaining romp, but it gets old REALLY quickly. I found myself skimming through most of it just so I could say I got through it. I hear they're making a movie out of it now. Are you kidding me?
I am North American who moved to Buenos Aires for a man I met in the tango. Knowing the milonga and the tango, the thought of someone finding The One in the tango scene is laughable, although my partner and I managed to find each other here and have been together for almost 2 years...and he is definitely not with me for my money, which is the typical attitude many of these tango dancers have toward foreign women. So, if you're thinking about coming to Buenos Aires to snag yourself a man, think twice. Tango is not all romance and passion. There is an undercurrent that is quite unpleasant. But, if you are coming here for a fling or two in a foreign country and are NOT looking for anything profound while you take advantage of the great dancing, by all means, come on down and enjoy!
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