The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Latin Music CD for Dance & Romance - Perfect for Parties, Weddings & Date Nights" （注：根据要求翻译了中文部分，添加了音乐类型和使用场景，同时保持了SEO关键词优化）

Oscar Hijuelos' Pulitzer Prize winning book NOTE TO KINDLE PUBLISHER-- The last pages of the book do not match the paperback version. The actual END of the book is there in the kindle version, BUT it goes ON to some additional pages that are earlier paragraphs from the book and if you don't know that you've read the end it seems to go on quite oddly. If I had not had the actual physical copy to compare them, I would be confused about where the book really ends. This does a huge disservice to this book. The kindle version (at least the one I purchased July of 2014) also eliminates the "afterward" and the author bio.I loved this novel and thought it was beautifully written, however, I agree with some of the posters who have complained that it meandered too much. It DID meander, but those "meanderings" were fortunately, spectacularly beautiful. While reading, I kept thinking that with a better editor, it would be a more cohesive story. But as I thought about it, it seems that the meandering followed a jazz structure wherein there are improvisational riffs that do what they do and though connected to the song are also little works of art unto themselves. If you're reading for a structure that you've seen before in books, which is often a three-act structure, this novel may be frustrating. But if you read it just to experience and explore it, the way the character Caesar explores and delights in all the parts of a woman's body, you will find the way to experience this book. There IS a destination to the story, but this isn't a story about getting to a destination, it's about living in the moments and REALLY experiencing the fullness of each of them. The novel examines what ultimately feels like a real life, fully lived, with wonderful moments of joy and success and love AND deep disappointment and despair. It expresses the longing for achieving something that had been unknown until it was too late for the body to accomplish what the soul was trying to get at. For those who are astounded at why it won a pulitzer they missed an element of the book that some people will intuit and others won't. I understand this, because there were times when I was reading, that I, too, was missing what was being communicated. But it IS there. This is a book that one must read on more than a surface level. The sex scenes are NOT merely pornography. I am smiling as I write this, because I really do understand how they could be perceived that way. But beyond that they're about connection, participation in life, expressing one's passion, expressing one's soul and doing it well, wanting to be accepted and admired. I still think some tighter editing could have made this novel even better, but at the same time, I also feel the style of approach was deliberate and I appreciate the opportunity to see the work as the artist created it. While I don't think it's a perfectly neat or structured book, I don't think life is terribly neat either and this novel seems to be trying to give us an experience of a person's life as he sees it. For me, the result is an expanded view of life and its possibilities and that's what I hope for when I read.Book was in really good condition and arrived on time. Superb service.Wonderful novel. Cesar Castillo is a brilliantly realised character. Capable of the utmost generosity, but with a twisted macho core. I loved him and hated him at the same time.Very punctual. Great condition. Great readA great book heading towards being a classic.I read this book with few interruptions, save sleep. Perhaps, as it was not written in a day, it may have better not too consume too much too quickly, like a good wine needs time to breathe & shouldn't be guzzled. I say this because, it's more noticeable when segments are redundant & repetitive. That may be an editing issue versus my ferocious appetite for reading, esp a Pulitzer rewarded accomplishment, in one stretch.I cringe saying this, but to ignore saying so seems dishonest. I saw the movie, too long ago to remember more than feasting my eyes on Armando Assante .The Mambo stuff was great, but there's no way a 2 hr movie could touch on more than a fragment of this saga. Furthermore, book & movie are chalk & cheese anyway, all I mean is...don't think the story is ruined if you caught any of it on celluloid. (It's about the writing of course, yet some people see no need to read about what they've seen.)Another thing, since I'm being honest & not intimidated by the huge seal of approval stamped on this book (Pulitzer Prize) ...for the first 100 pages, I couldn't grasp why this book was P.P. awarded. One expects extraordinary. Probably, this is why I made it a reading marathon until I did grasp why. Yes, in its entirety, an embodiment of work. There are portions which stand out throughout..in fact, I thought the 2nd last chapter (which imo should have been the last) was more revealing & touching, beautifully written.I don't mind how long a book is, if it isn't tedious, carrying dead weight that doesn't add or act in some means essential, doses of simplicity between complicated, intense scenarios. There was a lot of research in the era, the well-known names among Cuban esp but Puerto Rican, & Latino -Caribbean performers, musicians, bands within their respective Communities & the rivalry & genuine camaraderie between them.As I travelled around Cuba (tourism trade) in the 80s, I saw what happened when communism killed Cuban's vibrant spirit, made them prisoners within their own country, & denied them any rights. When decades of the USA embargo turned Havana into a shell of its former self, peeling paint on all buildings, broken down rusted cars from the 50s, with Russian cars in the mix. Penalties for accepting tips if a hotel employee...hotels & stores that were for tourists only. Cubans not permitted to socialize w Westerners. No toilet seats, naked light bulbs, ....I know, as I worked for a Canadian tour operator, who sent all these requests - boat motors, lawn mowers in their planes in lieu of payments for hotel rooms. I hoped to see the Mambo King's Havana. Not anymore, at least not in Cuba. (In 80s before Europeans were allowed to built resorts on the side with white sand beaches recreating that flavour in cabaret style entertainment/nightlife for tourists....keeping tourists contained in All inclusive resorts)I did find the macho behaviour, overpowering women, explicit sex scenes were not sensual but often violent, grotesque..I'm not a prude, but as a woman the constant "world revolves around my big dick" & "taking it in the ass" falling to their knees to get at that throbbing hunk (to which measurements were given over & over)....that got redundant after the 25th time. And for what purpose after the 10th full blown description? (Pun intended)