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Title: A Thousand Beauties
Author: Mark Adam Kaplan
Narrator: David Rollins
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-13-13
Publisher: Mark Adam Kaplan
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Some love affairs are not the story book kind. Not even the second time around.
Rupert Ruskin vows to give his dying ex-wife as beautiful a send off as he can. But getting her to do what he wants has always been like cornering a hurricane. Besides, she has her own ideas of how she plans to go out. If he's not careful, they'll stretch Ruskin's very soul to its limits.
Members Reviews:
Reflections on a life.
Let me see if I can verbalize my feelings about this book.
Thank you Mark for such a marvelous read and thank you David Rollins for your expert reading of it.
Such a topic is never a welcome one. You allowed me to reflect on my feelings and they haven't changed. I adored the book and only have one reason to make it a 4 star instead of a 5 star read. You didn't need the sex the book was substantial without it.
Because Mark made this a free book I moved it to "read next" and hoped it was good. It was!! So glad I read it.
Better with or without her?
This book will leave you thinking. Is he better off with or without her. She is using him, but does it matter if he's happy and in love. If you're life opens up and now you have a purpose, a plan, does that make it all worth while. But when she's gone again, would he have been better off if she had never come back into his life. You'll need to decide for yourself.
It took me to difficult places
A difficult, sometimes disturbing, dark, uncomfortable and ultimately heartbreaking and excellent read. Quite an accomplishment - kudos to Mr. Kaplan!
A Compelling Novel
The image that introduces this compelling novel is that of a spider devouring a fly. The twist: the fly--Ruskin-- has deliberately buzzed into Elaine's web. A spider-loving fly! Another twist on the come-into-my parlor victim-prey cliché: the spider turns out to be pathetically self-destructive.
It's a tribute to Kaplan's talent that with such grim subject matter and obsessively self-focused protagonists he is able to generate page-turning suspense. Some readers will even find dark humor in the spectacle of this bumbling fat man--masochistic sap or saint?--taking prat-falls of his own devising; dark humor too in the long catalogue of Elaine's attempts, chemical and metaphysical, to stave off psychosis. The narrative is propelled by an efficient style, a keen ear for dialogue, an ability to make situations ring true. The scenes of the wedding preparations are brilliantly brought off, building up to an ambiguous climax that echoes in the reader's mind long after: is Ruskin's final act one of mercy or of selfish deliverance from an unbearable situation? A Thousand Beauties stands up remarkably well to the rude test of a reread, which, like most books I review, is what it got from me.
Howard Waldman is the author of Back There, Time Travail,The Seventh Candidate and Good Americans Go to Paris when they Die. These novels are available on Amazon.
Hollywood Producers please make a movie from this novel
Kaplan captures the struggle of love and selflessness vs. hatred and selfishness. Rupie is forced to make the decision when his ex-wife reappears in his life with terminal cancer. Elaine proceeds to start the rollercoaster relationship all over again with her extreme mood swings. Rupie has to decide between his sanity and her self-destructive scream for help.
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Title: A Thousand Beauties
Author: Mark Adam Kaplan
Narrator: David Rollins
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-13-13
Publisher: Mark Adam Kaplan
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Some love affairs are not the story book kind. Not even the second time around.
Rupert Ruskin vows to give his dying ex-wife as beautiful a send off as he can. But getting her to do what he wants has always been like cornering a hurricane. Besides, she has her own ideas of how she plans to go out. If he's not careful, they'll stretch Ruskin's very soul to its limits.
Members Reviews:
Reflections on a life.
Let me see if I can verbalize my feelings about this book.
Thank you Mark for such a marvelous read and thank you David Rollins for your expert reading of it.
Such a topic is never a welcome one. You allowed me to reflect on my feelings and they haven't changed. I adored the book and only have one reason to make it a 4 star instead of a 5 star read. You didn't need the sex the book was substantial without it.
Because Mark made this a free book I moved it to "read next" and hoped it was good. It was!! So glad I read it.
Better with or without her?
This book will leave you thinking. Is he better off with or without her. She is using him, but does it matter if he's happy and in love. If you're life opens up and now you have a purpose, a plan, does that make it all worth while. But when she's gone again, would he have been better off if she had never come back into his life. You'll need to decide for yourself.
It took me to difficult places
A difficult, sometimes disturbing, dark, uncomfortable and ultimately heartbreaking and excellent read. Quite an accomplishment - kudos to Mr. Kaplan!
A Compelling Novel
The image that introduces this compelling novel is that of a spider devouring a fly. The twist: the fly--Ruskin-- has deliberately buzzed into Elaine's web. A spider-loving fly! Another twist on the come-into-my parlor victim-prey cliché: the spider turns out to be pathetically self-destructive.
It's a tribute to Kaplan's talent that with such grim subject matter and obsessively self-focused protagonists he is able to generate page-turning suspense. Some readers will even find dark humor in the spectacle of this bumbling fat man--masochistic sap or saint?--taking prat-falls of his own devising; dark humor too in the long catalogue of Elaine's attempts, chemical and metaphysical, to stave off psychosis. The narrative is propelled by an efficient style, a keen ear for dialogue, an ability to make situations ring true. The scenes of the wedding preparations are brilliantly brought off, building up to an ambiguous climax that echoes in the reader's mind long after: is Ruskin's final act one of mercy or of selfish deliverance from an unbearable situation? A Thousand Beauties stands up remarkably well to the rude test of a reread, which, like most books I review, is what it got from me.
Howard Waldman is the author of Back There, Time Travail,The Seventh Candidate and Good Americans Go to Paris when they Die. These novels are available on Amazon.
Hollywood Producers please make a movie from this novel
Kaplan captures the struggle of love and selflessness vs. hatred and selfishness. Rupie is forced to make the decision when his ex-wife reappears in his life with terminal cancer. Elaine proceeds to start the rollercoaster relationship all over again with her extreme mood swings. Rupie has to decide between his sanity and her self-destructive scream for help.