When the Wind Blows/ Abridged

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Summary: Brave New World / The X Files
Review: My expectations for this book were modest due to varying on-line reviews I had read before purchasing, but I was pleasantly surprised and entertained, reading the book almost non-stop over a weekend. A brief analysis of what to expect are as follows........................................... Strengths: Topical and well-researched science fiction (shades of "Brave New World" and "The X-Files"), Lots of warmth in the story (main characters, leading man & woman, are great). Weaknesses: "Bad Guys" lack credibility (ala James Bond film megalomaniacs with hired help), Key events/transitions in the middle and late stages of the book are too fast and not believable (full-on killings and destruction). **Summary** Aside from some overdone action-scenes in some parts, the book is full of warmth, fires the imagination, and is guaranteed to sit in the memory banks for a long time to come.

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Summary: Slow...but a very explosive ending!
Review: After about 150 pages of WHEN THE WIND BLOWS, I was ready to put it back on the shelf. I was barely interested in it, and I had many more books to read that I knew would be better. Plus, you have to keep turning the pages frequently because the chapters are only a page long! However, I stayed with it, and I'm very glad I did. As Mr. Patterson said in the author's note, although this was a fantasy novel it's very real. If someone really wanted to, they could give a child wings and the ability to fly. Max was a truly unique and classic character of contemporary literature, as was the novel itself :)

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Summary: You'll get high on this one!
Review: James Patterson has done it again. When the Wind Blows was one of those books that you can forget. After I finished reading this one it stayed in my mind for weeks. This is absolutly a fantastic fantasy. You'll love every moment. This one will make you feel as if you're flying!

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Summary: It Was Okay....
Review: The only other book I have read from James Patterson besides this book was "Kiss The Girls". I got into that book from the first page but this book just never really grabbed my attention until about two-thirds through it. It was an easy-to-read book with a sort of interesting storyline but I just couldn't really get into the book very much. I'm glad that I stuck with it until the end because I did enjoy the ending but people looking for the fast paced action like in "Kiss The Girls" need to look elsewhere.

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Summary: Not so typical Patterson
Review: I rarely enjoy science-fiction, fantasy-type of stories but this one captivated me from the first page. This book was given to me by a friend and it's been on my bookshelf for quite some time, because I'd heard negative things about it. Once I became desperate for some reading material I resorted to this and it surprised me. I've read most of Patterson's books and enjoyed every one of them but, from what I'd heard, I didn't think this one was going to match up. Contrary to my beliefs, this was one of his best. I think maybe because it is so out of the ordinary, so imaginative, so "cutting-edge" such a creative storyline it kept me reading and reading....I hope Patterson does more stories like this, I know I'll read them. I think a lot of people will have trouble with this book because they will expect "typical" James Patterson. I hope they can open up their minds and imaginations and let this work for them. It's worth it!

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Summary: The best
Review: One of his very best. It will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.

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Summary: Boy, did this suck.
Review: (...) This was my first Patterson book and it's likely to put me off Patterson forever! I'd give it a negative five stars if possible. What a shoddy, cheap, crappy attempt at churning a novel out as fast as possible. People say they READ it in one night? I think Patterson WROTE it in one night. It was like a story written for a freshman English class. HORRIBLE!

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Summary: blown away
Review: This is a story that about scientific research on normal people. It starts with Frannie, a sad drifting soul who has a passion for animals, Kit, a FBI agent who is not what he seems. After having a breakdown Kit is obsessed by his latest case, which gets him fired from his high standing possition at his work place. His case follows scientists who are taking away babies from mothers and giving them wings and the abillity to fly. In Frannies world as she gioves her love to Max, one of the lucky experiments who escaped from a place with one rule, DO NOT FLY. She learns horrible secrets about the people she calls friends. Max is just trying to save her brother in her life on the run. It all comes to a wonderfully weaved end with never a uninteresting pattern. This wind blow me over- and i have a very high standard to beat.

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Summary: Interesting at first, then you wish there was more!
Review: At first this book was almost too far fetched but once I got into it I couldn't put it down. I love how James Patterson has short, quick, and full of intensity chapters. What a twisted love, horror, and action book. Really makes you think.

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Summary: Not as good as the previous novels
Review: I think that people who have read other books from james Patterson will not like very much this novel on a completely new and strange subject. I hope that he can go back to his previous style.