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Summary: Predictable and boring
Review: This book was awful!!! Does this man even know how to write? I can't believe the positive reviews that this book is generating. First of all it's so predictable: when Robert first finishes his novel his wife pleads with him not to leave her when he becomes successful; his publisher tells him that he and his wife have a special relationship and that she doesn't want to see anything get in the way of that....and guess what? Anyone not see this coming? He leaves his wife!!! Gee I never would have guessed it!! The author is clearly drawing on his own life. He makes the writer in this book sound like he's a rock star!!! An author's life isn't THAT exciting people!!! And the "twist" if you can even call it that was so dumb!!! Please I beg you DO NOT waste your time reading this drivel. Spend your time reading someone who actually knows how to write.
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Summary: Salty and Engaging
Review: Corrupted by Hollywood, a hotshot author gets sent on a 'It's A Wonderful Life' introspection when a hipster angel confides that the man has only 40 days left to live. The writing is salty, witty, engaging, with enough situational bizarity to make it a tremendously fun and entertaining book. The corruption of Hollywood aspect will remind you of 'My Fractured Life', while the 'It's A Wonderful Life' tones will make you think of blockbuster 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' (although Richard Paul Evans does a more entertaining job in my opinion). I loved it.
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Summary: An Enjoyable Departure
Review: A Perfect Day is a bit of a departure for Richard Paul Evans. It reminds me more of My Fractured Life then of Evan's previous work. Although a departure, it is still very enjoyable.
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Summary: Angels Among US
Review: Evans has written another book that touches the heartstrings. I am not a real fan of Evans as I feel he often down plays or minimizes the women in his books. I feel he is way too full of himself! Now, having said that, I admit this book was easy to read and took an interesting turn of events and made me want to say, "Ha! The women got even with you!" I won't give away the ending and recommend the book as interesting and has a message for all busy people these days.Robert Harlan is laid off from his job as a radio station salesman and his wife encourages him to take this time and follow his dream to write the book he has always wanted to finish. She takes a job to cover finances and he stays home and writes A Perfect Day. A Perfect Day is a book about the wife, Allyson, and her last few months with her father as he suffers with cancer. The book jumps to the top of the bestseller list and becomes a big hit. Robert gets a big head and wants more and more of the fame and less of his wife and child, Carson. Michael, an angel, enters into the picture and tells Robert he has X amount of days to live and that makes Robert take another look at what he is doing and what he wants from life. To tell more would take away the mystery of the book and I highly recommend you read it to find out for yourself. An interesting aspect of the book is the reader gets a glimpse of what the publishing world is all about. Always nice to learn something new when we read a book.
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Summary: Won Me Over in 20 Pages
Review: The writing of Richard Paul Evans is fresh and unique. . Evans won me over within the first 20 pages. The similarity to Rikki Lee Travolta's "My Fractured Life" is refreshingly good. Also some similarities to Augusten Burroughs "Sellevision" and "Running With Scissors". "A Perfect Day" manages to be quick witted with off the cuff sly jesting, but have meaning throughout.
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Summary: Another Fine Effort from a Remarkable Man
Review: Don't you wish you were Richard Paul Evans? He's boyishly handsome, a loving husband and father of five, and someone who can write about his first book --- a huge bestseller --- like this, "The material achievements of THE CHRISTMAS BOX never will convey its true success, the lives it has changed, the families brought closer together, the mothers and fathers who suddenly understand the pricelessness of their children's fleeting childhood." (And before you start thinking cynically, Evans used that book's mega-success to launch a foundation that subsidizes halfway homes for abused and neglected children.) In his latest book, his eighth, Evans takes a different view of what it is like to be a successful, famous author. The protagonist of A PERFECT DAY, Robert Mason Harlan, has written a book of the same title based on a true, heartbreaking story from his wife's life. Harlan, once a successful radio advertising executive, had a series of bad breaks and spent eight years installing lawn sprinklers before his novel was published. His wife, daughter and agent stand behind him faithfully as his book becomes a sensation. Success, however, finds Harlan making some bad choices. While his wife Allison had a loving family, Robert grew up the son of a rigid, frigid military officer. Between his unhappy childhood and career troubles, Robert has come to believe that he is entitled to more. First, it's a way too lengthy book tour; then a speaking event that Robert allows to take precedence over a family emergency; finally, he fires Camille, his caring and nurturing literary agent in order to sign with a big macher who promises movie deals and much more money. He flies home and whisks Allison off to a real estate appointment to see a six-bedroom mansion "complete with home theater." When she balks at leaving their modest home, he leaves her --- and Carson, their six-year-old daughter. Robert's new whirl of celebrity suits him, and he's settling in to rounds of talk shows and restaurant lunches when a mysterious and curious man insists on sharing his table at Starbucks. The stranger, who calls himself Michael, knows nearly everything about Robert's life that Robert himself does --- but also knows a couple of things Robert doesn't. Bowled over by the information Michael gives him, Robert sets out doing what he has become accustomed to doing with information: to use it to his advantage. Robert has become very good at this, and before long he is back in Salt Lake City, wooing his wife and daughter with gifts of goods and time. Allison is properly suspicious, Carson is properly thrilled, and Robert believes he's doing just the right thing. Except he's not. Revealing any more would be unfair, though I will share that Evans throws an interesting curve ball towards the end that serves to remind readers (maybe the author, too) not to take anything too seriously. I will also share that, as usual, Evans's writing is deft. Evans knows how effective it can be to tug at heartstrings, and he does this with a higher purpose in mind. The charities he has founded have benefitted from his fiction writing as people look for a way to make a difference after reading his books. He empowers his readers to take a fresh look at their lives. And that is the point he again makes in A PERFECT DAY. --- Reviewed by Bethanne Kelly Patrick
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Summary: Very Good!
Review: Very good book! Reminds you of what's important in life. Richard Paul Evans writes modern fiction of the best quality.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: When circumstances make it possible for Robert Harlan to devote himself fulltime to finishing a novel he started four years ago, he sees it as his chance to finally do something worthwhile with his life. Then his dreams came true with a vengeance. It only took a few pages and I was hooked on this book. Beautifully written, Robert makes all the classic mistakes of someone on whom fame is thrust. The story is not completely unpredictable. Everyday guy next door turns into an overnight famous jerk forgetting everything that's important in life. But Evans makes it work. I couldn't put this book down and for someone who reads voraciously, that's saying a lot.
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Summary: You'll Need Tissues!
Review: 'A Perfect Day' is a brilliant piece of fiction. It holds its own with 'The Wedding', 'My Fractured Life,' and 'The Time Traveler's Wife.' I absolutely loved it. It's the kind of book you need a box of tissues to get through, but it's that good kind of crying that makes you feel fulfilled and not drained.
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Summary: Great story that kept me interested
Review: I thought this was a wonderful story about how important family is and how sometimes success can cloud our vision. I thought this was an excellent book and I plan on reading more of Richard Paul Evans' books.
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