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Title: Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston ISBN: 0-671-79388-8 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (41 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A writer we can relate to
Comment: I enjoyed Ms. Houston's book. Yes, she writes about women who fall for inaccessible men. I see that some readers criticize her for this, but I know that as strong and clear-seeing as I believe *I* am, I have done the same thing. More than once. I read her and I understand. I understand myself more clearly, I relate, and I feel I've *been* her. Being a good writer is not only about correct grammar and well-structured sentences. It's also about connecting with one's readers, and Pam Houston succeeds in connecting with us. I look forward to a novel from Ms. Houston.
Rating: 4
Summary: Outdoorsy Romance Transcends Usual Corset Busting
Comment: Given to me by the same friend who sent me "Girl Interrupted," "Anywhere But Here," and "Sin," I figured this must be something worth reading.
Starting out, I began to think this was going to be a Rosamonde Pilcher type book, and "Cowboys..." does share Pilcher's usual theme: independent-woman-finds-love-in-the-arms-of-someone-cooler-and-smarter-than-Fabio. And the title of the collection implies a lot: the protagonists are all generally strong women who lose it over the Marlboro Man.
But there is an underlying pathos in the collection, an electric charge of wild man and level-headed woman. I am sure you could turn out a killer essay exploring the sexual politics in these stories, but they are also just good fun.
The tales are very well-written, and the settings are very nicely described. If the reader wants to feel what it'd be like to escape to the high desert with a trapper like Jim Bridger or to the mountains with a cute outlaw like Jesse James, reading this book is a good way to do that.
The writer's obvious familiarity with exciting, rugged skills like snow camping and game scouting is impressive, and this knowledge gives the stories extra substance.
Warning to animal lovers: contains hunting.
Rating: 4
Summary: Published as fiction, but does anyone believe THAT?
Comment: Pam Houston's fictional characters somehow to always seem like the great lady herself, eccentric, strong, athletic, daring, and tough. And then there are the men. They have it tough in Houston's world, and no wonder. Sometimes even she agrees that she probably treats her dogs better than she does her men.
However, while her women are gutsy, they are still vulnerable, still learning, still making mistakes, and the biggest seems to be falling for inaccessible men. As her character says in the title story of this collection, "I've always had a thing for cowboys...but they're hard to find these days, even in the West."
Full of gender-heavy wisecracking, Cowboys are My Weakness will have you laughing, groaning, and crying. Enjoy yourself.
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Title: Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West by Harriet Fish Backus, Pam Houston ISBN: 0871085127 Publisher: Pruett Publishing Co. Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Men Before Ten A.M. by Pam Houston, Veronique Vial ISBN: 1885223196 Publisher: Beyond Words Publising Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely by Kate Bornstein ISBN: 0415916739 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 18 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: If the River Was Whiskey: Stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle, Coraghessan T. Boyle ISBN: 0140119507 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman ISBN: 0679756949 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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