Kiss and Tango: Looking for Love in Buenos Aires by Marina Palmer Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Kiss and Tango: Looking for Love in Buenos Aires
Book Review: what to do in Bs.As. Kiss & Tango
Summary: 5 Stars
Marina Palmer's sense of humor and expectacular story teller will make you laugh and forget your problems.
If you have visited Buenos Aires, this book will transport you once again to re-live the hospitality and great places Buenos Aires has. Excellent Book
Book Review: What a waste of my life!
Summary: 1 Stars
I was so excited to pay for a hard cover edition of this book. It bored me to tears! Yet, I kept reading it hoping against hope the woman in the story would stop having one night stands and being disappointed that they went nowhere the next day. This reminded me of being 18 and 20 years old, not the adult woman the book was about. The mix of tango, leaving your life in New York and doing what you dream should have been a great read. Unfortunately its a long tedious book that repeats itself chapter after chapter. All she does is search longingly for a new partner, find one, have sex with him and he dumps her. Over an over. And the ending is even less fulfilling than the entire book! I will not buy anything by this author ever again.Book Review: It is of no wonder that Marina did NOT find a partner.
Summary: 1 Stars
This book is as superficial as Ms. Palmer presents herself to be. Whatever Marina's angst is... her life, her lack of accomplishment, her cynicism against people (both men and women) in general emanates in all ways. I had to put the book down several times because her choice of words were so harsh, her attitude so ugly and unbecoming of a woman, it is of no wonder she has not found a partner in Tango, or in life for that matter. In addition, the fact that she bedded men for recreational purposes spoke volumes of the caliber of woman she is. I'll say it again... it is of no wonder that she has not found a partner. I would suggest that she read the Tao of Tango and learn more about her masculine self vs. feminine self and learn to manage her life in a more thoughtful and peaceful way. I expected much more from this book and was quite disapointed,,, in fact... painful to complete.Book Review: Disappointing and shallow
Summary: 1 Stars
I was so looking forward to this as I had just returned from my own solo vacation to Argentina and I thought this book would be a fun read and reminder of my trip. What a disappointment. Marina Palmer claims to have passion for the tango, but she only tells and not shows us this. She comes off as being a spoiled, narcissistic spoiled girl of 19, not a woman in her 30s. Her cliche-ridden prose merely describes her sexual conquests and illustrates her utter inability to form both friendships and relationships of substance. Argentina and tango have been done a real injustice by this shallow memoir.
Book Review: Make no mistake, Ms. Palmer demonstrates NO authority on the subject.
Summary: 1 Stars
After a long period of reservation about whether I wanted to write an unkind review for something, or give a product more attention than it deserved, I couldn't restrain myself any longer after seeing the author on a television program speaking as if she was a representative of the dance and of the scene in Buenos Aires. This bothered me terribly because, as evidenced by this book, she is nothing but a wide eyed, patronizing, privileged tourist. It's bad enough that she is a terrible writer--her descriptions are riddled with cliches (more than once she describes a crowded dance floor as being packed "like a can of sardines") and her explanations of tango terms and customs for non-aficionados are awkwardly shoehorned into the narrative--thereby belying the "diary" format--or briefly used to introduce sections as a heavy handed thematic primer. As for her "authority," it is essentially reduced to name dropping of people and places which are more legitimately established in the tango scene. Okay, up to this point it's just a bad book, no big deal. What really gets me is her utter narcissism and exploitation of the culture and tradition that define this great city. Of course, the premise of the book is of a dissatisfied woman in New York who rushes off to BsA to find romance and adventure, but the hope (for the reader) is that somewhere along the way, she will shed her exoticism of the culture and come to a deeper understanding and appreciation of it and be able to convey that to us. Unfortunately, that never happens. Throughout the book the narrator remains steadfastly self-indulgent. For example, near the end she describes the lockdown of the banks and the forced conversion of pesos, which threw the country into chaos and dropped the majority into poverty. Yet her primary concern was that she would be unable to do her street performance. Such callous disregard illuminates two things very clearly. First, she is a very unlikeable narrator. Secondly, she is NO porte?a. I cannot give a lower recommendation.