The Body Farm

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Summary: Easy reading, great enjoyment!
Review: This book is really enjoyable. It gives you a good look into the life of a profiler. And the descriptions of the body farm are pretty vivid. Makes you feel like you are really seeing this "farm"

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Summary: CORNWELL'S SCARPETTA IS THE BEST!
Review: I MUST ADMIT THAT I STUMBLED UPON ONE OF PATRICIA CORNWELL'S BOOKS QUITE BY ACCIDENT. I PICKED UP "FROM POTTERS FIELD" OUT OF BOREDOM AND READ THE WHOLE BOOK IN ONE SITTING. I LOVED IT! SINCE DISCOVERING THIS SERIES, I HAVE READ SEVERAL. EVEN THOUGH I SOON DISCOVERED THAT I WAS READING THEM OUT OF ORDER, ONE BOOK NEVER REVEALS THE PLOT OF THE NEXT. THE STORIES ARE RIVETING! I JUST FINISHED "THE BODY FARM" AND LOVED IT TOO. I WENT STRAIGHT TO THE NEAREST BOOK STORE TO STOCK UP ON ANYTHING OF CORNWELL'S THAT I HADN'T READ. I PURCHASED "POST-MORTEM" AND "BODY OF EVIDENCE" AND I CAN HARDLY WAIT TO GET STARTED!!

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Summary: Not as interesting as it could have been, but OK.
Review: The most interesting thing about this book is the fact thatthere really is a body farm in Knoxville, Tennessee. It isthe brainchild of Dr. William Bass, a world-renowned forensics expert and retired University of Tennessee professor. The exact location of the farm is unknown except to forensics students, police, and others. The farm recreates, with dead bodies, different scenarios of death, and its research has been invaluable to the science of forensics. I hope in future books Cornwell uses the real-life laboratory of the Body Farm to help Dr. Scarpetta.

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Summary: A real grabber that prepares you for her next book.
Review: This time Lucy (her niece) takes up a much larger (adult) role in the story line. Very good story, but slightly disappointing ending. Patricia makes up for that by picking up the loose ends in "From Potter's Field". Enjoy, I did!!

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Summary: *Excellent*
Review: Although "Postmortem" and "Body of Evidence" are among the best Cornwell books I have read, I must say that "The Body Farm" may rival them for my favorite in the Kay Scarpetta series. This book contained all of the thrilling ingredients I have come to expect as a Cornwell fan. Unlike one of my contemporary reviewers who guessed the murderer early on, I was in shock when the actual perpetrator was revealed. I love how Cornwell lead the reader in a direction that was completely opposite of what happened. Inadvertently, I enjoyed getting a glimpse into the personal lives of Marino, Benton Wesley, and Dr. Kay herself. These characters already seem so realistic, and reading about them only reinforced the images of them that I had from other books. It seemed like Cornwell was trying to make Dr. Kay more three-dimensional through this book, showing that beyond her work ethic and tough, quick thinking exterior, she is a genuine human being who thinks, loves, and makes decisions for herself, and encounters the same problems faced by people outside of the fictional world. Conclusively, this was a great book. Bravo, Cornwell!

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Summary: Horrible...
Review: After hearing the hype about Cornwell and then reading Death's Acre, I was excited to try out my first Cornwell book. I found the story line long, drawn out and boring and SO boring in fact, I could not even finish the book. If this story is any indication of Ms. Cornwell's other works, I am not interested in the least.

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Summary: The Body Farm
Review: The Body Farm is a well developed book that I trully recomend. It's characters, setting, and plots are well developed. The Body Farm is an interesting and exicting crime book that once you start reading it it will leave you on suspense, and makes you keep on going to the next chapter. Cornwell's books are truly an inspiracion for those people who have any kind of fear on crimes. It also makes people see crime in a different way. The Body Farm is one of the best books I'v ever read. I gave it 5 stars, because I really think that any reader shouldn't miss this book.


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Summary: Only Paid a Buck for the Book
Review: If you can find this book used and need kindling to start a fire, then I could recommend it. I was lucky enough to only invest a buck in this book. Authors who write in the first person shouldn't; those whose protagonists use or otherwise have to interface with computers ought to spend a little more time understanding the terminology.

I realize that this book was published in the middle 90s, but the author's command of computers and the incipient internet seemed as though she had spent an evening with one of her friends doing her research over cocktails. No clue..

..it was at that point that this book became kindling.


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Summary: Not her best
Review: This was an entertaining book, but definitely not one of her best. The characters didn't feel real somehow, and although the story line had good possibilities, somehow it never came to much in the end afer all. I expected more somehow.

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Summary: Another brilliant book with twists and turns on every page!
Review: I am reading all of the Scarpetta novels in order and this is my favorite so far. I love having a heroine/main character who is not perfect but tries to be. She is what we all want to be in so many ways. I highly recommend this book but you need to read Cruel and Unusual in order to understand the plot of this one. Read this book if you love true crime or adventure!