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Fine Things
Smart, likable, Bernie Fine was the wonder boy of Wolff's, New York's most glamorous department store. A senior VP moving up, he arrives in San Fransisco to open a West Coast store. His career is skyrocketing, but his life is lacking a center. When he looks into the wide, innocent eyes of five-year-old Jane O'Reilly, and then into the equally enchanting eyes of her ...more
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(first published 1987)
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This book is about a man named Bernie. In his life he has met many people but they all have a special place in his life. When he meets his future wife he has no idea what will happen next. The incoming events are difficult and touching to him and his loved ones. He has a kid that came with his wife Liz. The kid named Jane finds that Bernie not only is a good father but also a good supporter in events to come.
I can connect to the world because people marry others and already have kids...more
I can connect to the world because people marry others and already have kids...more
This was the first Danielle Steel book I read back when the Dunco Book Club first started and I was about 10 or 11. It was also the first time I'd read a sex scene--not that Steel is ever explicit, nor particularly memorable as, more often not, Steel's plot lines are as generic and uninspired as her titles. I've probably read more Steel books than I've listed here just because back then I read practically everything I could get my hands on and between the book club and the school library, that w...more
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Danielle Steel has outdone herself with ’’Fine Things’’. Her books always make me very emotional. Almost all her books are woman oriented - and involve sacrifice, separation, pain which incidentally all revolve around the main theme -’’Love’’!
’’Fine Things’’ is different as it is one of the few books that concentrate on a hero instead of a heroine. The hero here is Bernie Fine who finds the love of his life, only to have her tragically snatched away from him (you’ll need tissues for...more
’’Fine Things’’ is different as it is one of the few books that concentrate on a hero instead of a heroine. The hero here is Bernie Fine who finds the love of his life, only to have her tragically snatched away from him (you’ll need tissues for...more
Bernie Fine meets the woman of his dreams, single mother Liz O'Reilly. They get married and have a son but then Liz dies of cancer so Bernie is alone with Jane (Liz's daughter) and the new baby. So the first part is happy and then it's really sad and then it's about how he finds love with someone else. It follows the hero throughout which is a bit unusual for Steel. I think I've grown out of Danielle Steel books - I read a lot of them as a teen but they don't work so well for me now. (Altho...more
What a pleasant read. I was surprised by all the twists and turns this story offered. This story offered real life happiness and tragedies. Danielle Steele usually offers stories about the wealthy and how the rich prince-like hero saves the damsel-like commoner. This story offered that, but there was so more substance. Without giving anything away, Bernie is a guy who just wants to find love. He finds it. Tragedy strikes Bernie more than once, but he eventually finds happiness again.
One summer when I was a teenager I had no money and nothing to do. I started digging into my mom's bookshelf just for something different to read. (You can only read your Sweet Valley High and V.C.Andrews so many times.) I plowed through book after book of Danielle Steel that summer. And after I read it I claimed the book as mine and it went on my bookshelf. To this day I don't know if my mom has actually read a Danielle Steel novel.
This book was really good until the last 3/4 of the book. Killing Liz and then the stuff with Jane & her real dad was fine but then it's like the author needed to make up a bunch of other stuff just to make the book long. The main character had been through enough anyway without dragging out another love story and tragedy in the last 100 pages. The first 1/4 was really good though. It should have just ended there.
I haven't read ALL of Danielle Steele's books, but I read the first 10 or 15 or so and loved 'em - actually liked the earlier books better. The more recent ones are all about super-women (who happen also to be pretty, thin, rich, whatever) , who are mighty hard to "identify" with , and who easily fly coast to coast (no problem) - just doesn't seem real. The plots have become the same and extremely predictable.
I haven't read much Danielle Steel, but I expected much more from her. She is so popular! But this reads like a synopsis instead of a novel, almost as if it's a rough draft to get the plot down, but the feeling is added later. Disappointing. But hey--it's a vacation read and it worked on the beach.
i loved that this book was written from a man's perspective, and such a great guy! i've moved away from romance-type novels, but this will always be one of my faves. oh, i guess a small warning: i cried and cried!!! (still a wonderful book though)
Absolute total garbage! The first, last & only Danielle Steel book I ever intend to read. And I only read because I was a captive audience. I was in the hospital, a friend brought this to me and it was the only thing I had to read!
I used to read Steele all the time, but her books got to be so dark and depressing that I quit. But, I will always remember "Fine Things." It had to be her best work. Touching, and sentimental, yes. But just plain good!
It was so great to read a story about a man that marries a woman that ends up dying of cancer and wants to adopt her daughter..But then ends up fighting the girls birth father cause he's an idiot
Used to lover her but all her books are the same, it is like she has a template, girl is destitute,tons of people die who she loves and so on and so on, plots are all the same after a while.
I can't help it, I went through a Danielle Steel phase and I really enjoyed reading her wonderfully scandalice tales. The lives of these characters were always fascinating.
I loved how this blended family came together! They had a bond that noone could break! When tragedy hits, being a close knit family is what gets them through...
I think this is a really good story and I think you will learn something and it makes you think and have compassion for the characters involved in the story.
I think this one is one of my favorites of Ms Steel. How poignant and touching. I really loved Bernie and could totally relate to his story.
This book continues to be my absolute favorite Danielle Steel book! I have read it numerous times and it never fails to affect me...
Can't recall when i read this book S:
I remember how silly it felt that the guy kept meeting women like him :P
I remember how silly it felt that the guy kept meeting women like him :P
I enjoyed the book. It has poignant parts and happy events as well. The plot was interesting and absorbing.
This is an amazingly sad novel, probably one of Steels better books, although all of her books are wonderful.
IT"s great book , on young man who founds true love and the strugles that he go throgh and never gives up.
Read this over 20 years ago, so the details are fuzzy, but I remember loving it at the time.
This is one of my favoritenovels of all time! I've read and ead asgain, and again!
Such a sad story (which Mrs. Stelle is great for those, hehe)... but really good!
I read this one back in high school, I think! (It was so long ago....can't remember!)
This was one of the first Danielle Steel books that I read, and I loved it
A piece from my "schmultz" reading days. One of her better stories.
Read years ago, there are very few of her books I don't like!
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