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Summary: Pop over to purchasing link, buy this sensational thriller
Review: This is a sensational book and one of the best Alex Cross novels written. The Weasel is a particularly evil character and brings a new complication for Alex. He has diplomatic immunity so he can't even be questioned. Sampson, the kids and the others are in danger if Cross can't prove it's him and stop him in time. This is a brilliant fast paced, short chaptered book that you won't be able to put down. Buy yourself some blank tapes as you won't be watching TV until you've finished.
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Summary: Alex Cross Has to Capture Another Homicidal Maniac!
Review: Alex Cross is at it again. This time he's in love. But his happiness won't last long as it is threatened by a series of chilling murders in Washington D.C., again. The patterns are so twisted they leave investigators reeling. Cross's pursuit of the killer produces a suspect, a British diplomat named Geoffrey Shafer. But trying to prove that he's the murderer is a potentially deadly task. As Shafer engages in a brilliant series of surprising countermoves, Alex and his fiancee become hopelessly entangled with the most memorable nemesis Cross has ever faced.I enjoyed the book as I always do with James Patterson's writing.
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Summary: Mediocre performance
Review: Really...is James Patterson trying to write a suspense story or a romantic epic. Pop Goes the Weavel starts off with enough suspense surrounding a British diplomat and three others trying to play a fantasy game which eventually turns out to be a true story. Then the whole plot weakens with a dash of romance. And there are gaps as far as time frames are concerned. And the whole episode of Christine being kidnapped is vague. I cant believe that James PAtterson tried to convert the suspense thriller into a soppy romance gig where eventually Christine is found with Alex's son. The ending was vague and made no sense. it was loosely finished. I wish James PAtterson would decide if he wants to write a suspense thriller or Harlequin novels. Alex Cross as always is the too-good-to-be-true detective who has it all. I think the character needs to be doing more investigative techniques than portraying his personal life.
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Summary: This is a totally nail biting book!!
Review: To be honest, if I get hooked on a good character like Alex Cross I'm a fan for life. I feel that readers out there that are looking for great researched literature shouldn't read this book. I feel the Alex Cross series are greatly entertaining. All of his book are about "edge of your seat" suspense!! I really love this book. It's a story about a guy who has diplomatic immunity & takes the game of Dungeons & Dragons to the next level. At times I feel how can Alex Cross get this guy if this guy can't be touch by our American laws. I almost got deep into trying to critize on certain aspects of the book, but in the end I realized there is no need for it. If you need a quick suspense fix to past the time, then I recommend this book!
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Summary: There should be negative star ratings for books like this
Review: The plot has the makings of a good novel. Unfortunately James Paterson has no idea how to write one. There is no tension, thrills are ironed out with bland passive writing, and in the end who cares what happens to Alex Cross. I tried another Paterson novel and it was a clone of the first. don't waste money on this.
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Summary: Total Crap
Review: This is my first and last James Patterson novel, which I thankfully did not pay full price for. I can't believe these books are so popular. The writing is mediocre, the plot is predictable, the ending is obvious, and the characters are wooden. Even Alex Cross is wooden! Spoilers ahead... My main problems with this book (other than the above) are: 1. I find it extremely hard to believe that a guy as crazy as Schafer would allow Christine to live. Baby or no, given his psychopathic tendencies, I think he would have killed her in a heartbeat just to get back at Cross. 2. Sure, WE all knew Schafer was The Weasel, but Cross never completely proved it or linked him to the killings. (He suspected it, yes, but never proved it.) After the female cop's death and Christine's kidnapping, that became the focus of the book, not The Weasel killings. Ironic that Cross was complaining about the lack of coverage on the case due to the locale and victims, but then as soon as he is personally involved, it was no longer a problem. 3. Cross's children and home life are toooo perfect. Although I hate books where the main character has deep rooted issues, Cross's life is too sugary sweet to be believed. 4. Cross's fiancee disappears and he's back to work immediately??? Whatever. 5. The trial was laughable. Are you going to tell me that a prosecutor who has the defendant on the stand isn't going to pick him apart and get him to break down? Instead she only asks him about his sexual relationship with his therapist? And she's supposed to be a revered prosecutor? Give me a break! I realize Patterson only showed us parts of the trial, but this was so completely unrealistic. 6. The ending was wrapped up too nicely. Hardly any climax, and how nice that after a whole year Christine is still alive, and with a baby to boot. Terrible. Don't even bother with this book. It is awful, awful, awful.
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Summary: Pop Goes The Weasel
Review: Another intriguing chapter in the life of Alex Cross. Patterson does it again. Recommended highly.
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Summary: Longtime Alex Cross fan
Review: I find the character Alex Cross fascinating and with each subsequent book we discover more about him BUT this book got so far-fetched that it detracted from the character. While the killers in Patterson's books are getting more and more barbaric as well, we do see some of what is perhaps my favorite aspect of the books-Alex Cross's family life and how the busy homicide detective/Phd. in psychology attempts to deal with both.
This book was definitely hard to put down but I did not go straight to the next one this time.
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Summary: One of the great Alex Cross books
Review: I thought this book was a perfect display of what James Patterson can do. He knows how to describe characters so well. Alex Cross seems like the perfect character to be in this book. He has the perfect family but he is also a hardcore guy. Another reason why I think I know the characters so well is that Morgan Freeman played Alex Cross In Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. The thing I liked most about this book I would have to say would be how he and his partner John Sampson solve the murders. They gather all this evidence and find all these clues with help of evidence or just with there brilliant minds. The killer is Geoffrey Shaffer he is a typical family man and is an ambassador from England. He has a wife and children and tries to be the perfect father. His family and everyone else doesn't know that he is part of a real like killer game called the Four Horse Men. They are a group of killers around the world that slaughter people for fun.
I think the theme of the book is if you do something to break the law you will always be guilty. I do think this is the theme of the book, I would say it is that you always get caught but that is not true. I think this book relates to my life because it takes place in the Washington D.C. and Northern Virginia area. When the author mentions the roads and landmarks I think to myself that I've been there.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes violence or a mystery book. This book is easy to read and it has short chapters. This is the kind of book that if you finish a chapter you want to continue on. Its well written and he makes it seem like your there.
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Summary: Embarrasingly poor
Review: This was the first Patterson book I'd read, having heard about him for years from friends. I was bitterly disappointed, and still can't fathom why he's so popular. Alex Cross is preposterous caricature, a brilliant criminologist-family man-Porsche driving-athlete who somehow has time to work in soup kitchens, chauffeur inner-city youth around, chase multiple serial killers at once, have a passionate love affair, spend time with his family (and he seems to do all of this each day, no less). . . The prose is wooden, the characters are paper-thin--their names are usually enough to identify whether they're really, really good or really, really bad, the only types that exist in the novel (there's one exception, a character who's right in between and is predictably killed for it), the plot isn't even faintly credible, and Patterson's insistence on telling the reader what's going on instead of showing it gets tiresome quickly. The ending just kills the book entirely--it's completley unbelievable, even by the standards of the plot twists that preceded it. This book's a pure potboiler.
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