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Summary: A Damn Shame
Review: It's a pity Patters knocked out this book.It's got the 'Oh what the hell, those idiots will buy and read anything I write' label slapped all over it. Well, he was right. We did. I won't be reading his next stuff until I read/hear the reviews that he's put himself into it this time like he seemed to with the previous Cross books. It's a shame, really, because I was just getting to like the bloke.
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Summary: Title should be "Plop Went the Weasel"
Review: Too many sub-stories, short chapters, and an excessive cast of characters are used to convey an over-abundance of information. The author seems to deliberately distort and exploit "Manic-Depression" symptoms to create the mind-set for the crazed villian. Once again, Alex Cross's family members and/or love interest serve as the central target for the book's villian (ho hum). The ending expects a lot from the reader who will turn the last page, shake their head, and wonder if they want to read the next book in the series.
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Summary: Suggestions for diagnosis and meds for Pop Goes The Weasel
Review: Have always been a fan of Patterson's books and usually buy them without a glance at the inside cover. This will change. The premise for making a drug-crazed bipolar individual the latest monster wasn't well thought out or researched. The drugs that were mentioned were not used in their correct context and some of them would not have affected mood and had no place in the flow of the story. Bipolar people many times are indeed brilliant but it is a disease of mood. I am afraid the many bipolar people in the world and the people who love them find this character "Weasel" unbelievable. Please if you intend to include pharmaceuticals in the plot, research them. The book would have been so much better if one of the other characters in the book who are loveable were diagnosed with bipolar and the challenges of day to day living were explored. We aren't monsters, we are mothers, grandmas, dads,kids, aunts and uncles. Research and slow down, James Patterson. We love your books but we can read a cheap imitation full of errors someplace else.
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Summary: Trash
Review: I'm sorry I wasted my money buying this book. It gives the impression that it was dashed off by Patterson just to have another book on the market. It's like a committee produced "work" and a poor one, at that. At best, a poor sterotype of the species. I was attracted to it, not only because of Patterson, but because of the Wash. DC setting. Unfortunately, Patterson shows that he knows very little about the city and didn't bother to do much research. His geography is inconsistent and usually wrong. I would not recommend this book to anyone and wish I could get my money back.
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Summary: Good Thriller, but not GREAT..
Review: Pop Goes the Weasel reads really quickly, I enjoyed it. BUT there is a HUGE editing mistake in that Alex delivers "exciting news" to his family twice in a couple of chapters. I thought I was losing it until I went back and confirmed this. How did Patterson AND the editors miss THAT? And while I read this book in pretty much one sitting, I agreed with another reviewer who said the "duke it out at a Club Med Resort Ending" is old hat. My main problem with the ending involved Christine and I can't explain it without giving away the plot. But suffice to say as I was reading that part I was like "oh give me a break". One other point, Morgan Freeman (great actor that he is) is way, way, too old to play Alex. How about Denzel or even Ving Rhines? Halle Barry would be great as Christine...
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Summary: Superficial Hollywood screenplay
Review: A very disappointing read I had to will myself to finish. No suspense whatever; characters are sketchy caricatures. Not even a particularly interesting story line, in that everything was absolutely predictable. Grade B Hollywood stuff.I had the strong sense throughout that the author simply dashed this off in his spare time. It's also most unfortunate that he found it necessary to use bipolar disorder as the principal motivator for his demented wacko serial killer. There are LOTS of these unfortunates out there, and they have their hands full just making it from day to day. The last thing they need it the additional ostracism that will likely follow wide popular acceptance of this novel. Save your time and your money!
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Summary: Average for Patterson
Review: I love most of Patterson's other novels, but I found Pop Goes the Weasel to be average in comparison. The villian was kind of blah, nothing compared to Along Came a Spider. Plus, I never really understood what was going on with the game they were playing, it was never really made clear. Of course even the most average of Pattersons books are quite good, but I've just come to expect a better caliber of reading from his other novels. Of course that wont stop me from being first in line for his next book!
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Summary: ALEX CROSS RETURNS
Review: Hey correct me if I am wrong but did the last Alex Cross book not end with one of his family being kidnapped I think it was his wife by a psycho?The book makes no or very little mention to this fact that had me waiting in anticipation since Cat & Mouse. Still the book has a very good plot involving a kidnapping and a real crazy bad guy but it still falls short of Cat & Mouse not to mention Jack & Jill which were both superb books. Whereas the previous books were red hot this is warm.Still I cant wait for ALONG CAME A SPIDER to make it to the screens and who else but Morgan Freeman can fill those boots.
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Summary: Weasel Not Worthwhile
Review: After an imaginative departure from the Alex Cross series with "When the Wind Blows," I was truly hoping for a breath of fresh air to enliven the Washington, D.C. detective's mysteries. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. Disappointed in the villain; his rather dry and relentless trail of kills; the bland romance and the now shop-worn descriptions of his family life. Even the ending was TV-movie stale, a convoluted "happily ever after." Does this mean I won't line up to buy Patterson's next book? Of course I'll be in line, while re-reading "When the Wind Blows" and hoping for something a little more satisfying.
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Summary: can't wait for the next one
Review: I have only recently been exposed to James Patterson's books, and have read all of the previous Alex Cross's ones these past weeks, and enjoyed reading them all, especially "along came a spider". With Pop goes the wiesel I was dissapointed to not know nor see how Christine was doing during the whole book, and often felt like Mr. Patterson was hurrying up to finish the book. I must say, though, that The wiesel was once again quite a character, and i'm looking forward to reading Alex Cross' next adventure.
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