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Slow Hands

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You'll be tempted to get the man in your life (no matter how wonderful he is!) to read this book as soon as you can bear to put it down, but my advice is to tell your best girlfriend about it instead! What a dishy, fun, book - so full of rich descriptions of designer decor, wonderful food and yes, sensual, (but not graphic) sex, that you'll want to move into the Slow Hands spa at once. I knew as soon as I read the jacket blurb that this was a different take on the often time worn "romance" theme (which I don't usually read). I was delighted with the philosophy the story's two sisters come up with for a new kind of woman's retreat - one where attentive and mindful interaction with young Zen buddhist monks (affectionatly known throughout as The Zennies)is one of the many services offered admist elegant surroundings. If Slow Hands was a real place, the waiting list would be miles long, and I'd be first in line! Instead, run fast to your bookstore and pick up Slow Hands - a great effort by first time novelist Lynne Kaufman.

Sisters Sara and Coralee Halprin mourn the death of their mother, but inheriting a fortune makes it easier to deal with the pain. However, the ache intensifies when they learn that their mother's will stipulates that for the two siblings to come into the wealth, they must go into business together.

They brainstorm until they observe the treatment of Kobe cattle that the two Halprins feel are treated better than women are. They open up a spa that caters to pampering women to include a fee for a young stud. The business succeeds and soon Coralee falls in love, marries, and wants to end the sibling partnership to enter a new one with her husband. However, the bottom falls out when Coralee learns she has cancer and the vice squad takes a close look at the erotic aspects of the spa.

SLOW HANDS is an amusing but somewhat melancholy look at life from the viewpoint of neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Instead, the sisters seem more like someone who sliced off the top of the partially filled glass so that it is now full. The story line is filled with depth and though the spa offers sexual pleasures, the plot never turns erotic. Instead fans receive an astute intriguing tale that will turn off some sensitive readers who do not want females compared unfavorably to cows or run businesses with a sexual twist.

Harriet Klausner

This is one of the most enjoyable books I have read in a long time. I couldn't put it down until I finished it. It was funny, sexy, and had a great story and an interesting premise.

It was written by a woman for women, and I think that most women will identify with it. However, as a man I enjoyed reading about women's secret fantasies and desires, and how men can fulfill these. Men! If you want to know how to please your woman, buy this book. Women, if you want your man to learn how to please you more, give him this book.

I read the first 100 pages then jumped to the last 100 pages because the middle was boring. If you like a book that keeps you reading because it's intresting I would not recommend this.