Customer Reviews

Message From Nam

5 star:		(32)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This book was absolutely awesome. I loved it! I have read about 20 of Danielle Steel's books, but I have just read this one. I have never cried so much reading a book before! I recommend this book to anyone who is a true romantic or a Danielle Steel fan. Once again, I am blown away by her work.

I finally finished my horrible summer reading (boring!), so I thought I'd pick up a novel by my favorite author Danielle Steel for fun. I had seen the tv movie for this book, so I was skeptical about actually reading it, but the movie was so good, I thought I'd give the book a shot. And, let me tell you, it was SO wonderful. Sure, some of it is over-the-top, but, for me, that's what Danielle Steel is about. You can read about other people's struggles to get away from your own for a while. I've read a lot of her books, but this one was the best by far. The story was touching, the characters were great. There was nothing about this book that I didn't like. I ordered the movie, and I cannot wait for it to get here, so I can watch it on the big screen! This is a definite must read for anyone who likes anything Romance related!

This is my all time favorite Danielle Steel book... I even loved the movie, but it did not do it enough justice. Of all her books, this is the only one I could read more than once (I don't even like to watch movies more than once), so that says a lot to me. Paxton is a very strong and amazing character, that continuously goes through one tragedy after another. I cried and cried and cried during this book... don't read it in public, read it alone with ten to twelve boxes of kleenex!!! If you are one of those people that like to believe there is only one true love for everyone... Danielle Steel is not your author... she understand that there is a lot of good in different people, and you can fall in love with many of them... and each one will give you a different direction of your life... not necessarily better or worse.

This is an amazing story. I fell head over heels completely in love with Tony, Bill, and especially Peter from the word go. This book takes you on such a ride through your emotions. I loved it. I can't stop thinking about Paxton days later. This book is a m ust read for anyone who enjoys a good love story and is also very interested in history. Danielle Steel did an great job of creating such a strong character in Paxton. I know I would've died of heartache in the very beginning. The end was a little weak and I would've loved at least an epilouge explaining about Tony and Paxton. Or more from her articles. Or more from her life in Paris. Or more lead up to her relationship with TOny and Bill. But still this is a wonderful story that will stay very close to my heart.

This is an excellent book. The names and dates may be made up but the story is one experience by many in this war. Ms Steel done an excellent job researching for this piece. This is by far the best in fiction on Nam I have read.

Danielle Steel lately has been, well, a bit disappointing. Now this novel a la the early 90's has grist and is something one can sink their teeth into. A look of 'Nam through central character's (Paxton Andrews) opened idylic eyes as a reporter during seven years in Saigon--is steel!

Yes, there is death, love, torture, horrors of war and a cast of characters we want to know personally. My favorite part of this book was the description and action in the infamous Vietnamese tunnels. Bill Quinn, a love interest, is on his 4th tour of duty as captain of the tunnel rats--finding, fighting, escaping from 'neath a matrix ravaged earth.

This is Ms. Steel at her best. Well researched, plotted, intricately meshed characters and a fulfilling novel.

What a fantastic novel! Its not meant to be high literature, so all the naysayers should get off their high horses. This is simply a lovely coming-of-age story that any true Romantic will fall for. I've reread it many times and this book never fails to make me cry. Once you get over the fact that its totally implausible then you can sit back and enjoy this immensely entertaining yarn (NO ONE could be as unlucky as Pax -people were dropping dead all around her! I know it was wartime but GEEZ..) Loved Tony, loved Ralph...loved this whole book!

This was the first book I ever read by Danielle Steel and became instantly hooked. By far, her best novel to date. I've read it over and over, and each time find myself crying for Paxton. It's emotional, but so realistic, you feel as if you're there with her, witnessing everything. It not only tells the story of a remarkable woman, but also about the horrible events of Vietnam. By the end of the novel, you can't stop thinking about Paxton, and everything that she had endured in her life. You wonder how anyone can be so strong. Only Danielle Steel can create such an honorable character that you remember forever.

Danielle is well known for spinning a good story. But she has outdone herself with this one. She is not old enough to have lived through the Vietnam War era but she has done her homework on this one, researched it well, and she brings the reader right into the heart of the inner conflicts surrounding that scenario. Right with the central character, you will feel the fear. Joy too. Kudos to Danielle Steele for a splendid piece of writing.

The whole book is unforgivably shallow. Don't buy it. Love is not just physical attraction or sexual interest. Why fall in love at first sight with Paxton? Is "smart intelligent" written on her forehead? Steel needs to write "so beautiful" "so intelligent" "so smart" "so innocent" so this so that.....bla bla bla over and over again, because her weakness as writer is that she CANNOT portray characters by their activities or dialogues!!! That's unforgivable, when she is making money as writer from both books and movies! Her works are basically for shallow idiots. Steel writes a dialogue "you look like a kid....". Here is a news-flash: being like a kid or acting childish does not make a woman adorable at all, most men get repulsed by it. But not Steel's male characters. Steel's male characters are all females in disguise. Steel CANNOT portray men at all.
Steel writes "they love each other so much" "they are so happy" they are sooo this they are soooo that.......this is her way of describing development of her stories, like written by a 6-year-old!!!
What makes Paxton so attractive so special? Steel's partiality about blond hair and blue eyes is so annoyingly prominent. In her books, blond is equal to beautiful! What if she was ugly? Wouldn't she be desirable then? This novel wouldn't have been written then?
What kind of name is Paxton by the way? Sounds like a washing machine. And one more thing, if 32 is old, what is 62 then? Museum-piece?