My Life with 3 Women [Paperback]

Alan Richards (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2001

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!

---- SEX, SUN, SAND, SEA AND SAILING on the high-seas as three women and one man sail from Tonga in the Paciic to Italy, inthe Med.

---Alan Richards -- a burn-out-- sets out to sail around the world alone and ends up with an all-woman crew.

---Four strangers running from their pasts meet on a South Pacific island.

--All have come half-way around the world running away from serious problems at home.

---ALONE -- THEY'RE IN TROUBLE. ---TOGETHER -- THEY'RE SURVIVORS

---Four strangers meet up and live together in a small ocean-going sailing yacht. They came together for a three-day sail to Fiji and ended up spending a year together -- sailing from Tonga in the Pacific to Italy.

--They faced hurricanes near Australia and pirates in Indonesia, but their greatest challenge was in overcoming the life-problems that drove them half-way around the world.

---They discovered THE FIVE S's --- SEX, SUN, SAND, SEA AND SAILING.

---In time, the women decided to share the only guy around--Alan.

Editorial Reviews

Review

An amazing true story of 3 women who share one man for a year. A story of deep friendships. -- Carol Andrews Syracuse Book Watch

An incredible but true story of 3 women who share one man for a year. Romantic, sexy, adventurous. -- San Jose Books Review Of The Week

Four losers become four winners when they meet,and you the reader are the biggest winner of all." -- Seattle Readers' Assn.

Four losers survive a storm at sea, an attack by pirates. But even more amazing, they survive their own pasts. -- Bob Howett, Seattle Readers Association, September 14, 2002

Riveting and powerful..and very surprising -- The BookWay Group Reviews

You'll read it straight through...simply a must read. -- Ssyracuse Book Watch Reviews

From the Publisher

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!

--- The incredible but true story of a lone burned-out sailor who ends up sailing half-way around the world with three women he met on a So. Pacific island.

---Every sailor will recognize the reality of sailing on the high-seas.

--Everyone will identify with the problems of four strangers living together in the small space of an ocean-going sailboat.

----Everyone will recognize the practical solutions as three women decide to share the only man around.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 262 pages
• Publisher: Penhurst Books; 1st edition (December 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970568479
• ISBN-13: 978-0970568472
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,761,932 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Real, October 22, 2002

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Jack Evans (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Life with 3 Women (Paperback)

I couldn't put this book down. As a sailor, it's scenes of sailing in a tropical paradise made it like being threre. As a human, the story of the 3 women and 1 man and the cirumstances which threw them together was deeply moving. As a romantic, I could see them creating their own little world, and the 3 women deciding to share the only guy around. As an adventurer, I loved the sailing scenes, the survival storm and the nightime pirate attack left chills down my spine. I've never read a book that hooked me and dragged me in like this one. If you love life, adventure, or sailing, or just plain romance, I recommend it highly.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ENVY, April 5, 2005

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Pablo R. Vitaver (Ft Lauderdale, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Life with 3 Women (Paperback)

This former real estate broker decided to sail away after his long-term marriage ends up in divorce. He makes it to Tonga where he meets up with 3 women who join him onboard his small sailboat. They live through storms, piracy, wonderful anchorages in deserted islands and exotic towns. The reading is very entertaining, the sail advice is not the best (he had only a few months of sailing experience before writing this book), the writing is not the best, but the story of these four souls is great. This is one of those books that are hard to put down and you are sorry they do not go on for another few hundred pages. The limited English can be forgiven as is so entertaining and original. Any male (and many females) that reads Alan's story will have a huge envy attack. It would be great to have a follow up book on what happened afterwards to each character in the book. It would be interesting to read the version of these events by the other participants. It would be reassuring to get confirmation that this story is real (or maybe not, a guy should not be that lucky!) There is no mention if the picture on the cover shows the actual characters. Anyway, it is great reading.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Life With 3 Women, October 21, 2002

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Sandra Molina (San Jose, Costa Rica) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Life with 3 Women (Paperback)

I felt like I was the 5th person on that boat. It was so real, so vivid and powerful. I found this true story of 3 women who share 1 man for a year to be powerful, uplifting, humorous and insightful. I felt like I was in Tonga and Fiji. As a sailor myself, the sailing scenes are classic and true. Only a sailor who's been there could write like that. I felt I was on the boat fighting the storm. Alan's writing puts you right there, in the storm and running from the pirates in Indonesia. Alan and the 3 women are for real. You feel for them, ache for them and laugh hilariously when they drink too much Kava.

The book works on several levels: a rip-roaring adventure, a great sailing story, a deeply moving human story, a story of friendships so real you can relate to them and, of course, tropical islands and a share of sex. Four people alone and in trouble find each other and come out on top. Like one of the reviews said, " a must read." You'd better believe it!