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Summary: My all time favorite Sheldon!!!
Review: I was 15 when I first read this GREAT book. The hope of finding a book that captures my imagination and attention as well as this one did has made me an avid reader since then. I have reread this book about 5 times!!!! All of the characters are so memorable and interesting!!! This is the only book I have ever read that makes we wish that fictional characters existed!!(Except for Eve!!) I don't want to give anything away....so just trust me....IF YOU LIKE SHELDON BOOKS...THIS IS FAR AND AWAY HIS BEST. p.s. If Tomorrow Comes is his second best.
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Summary: A Slight Disappointment
Review: After having read two or three great novels by Sidney Sheldon, Master of the Game was a slight disappointment. The story was too predictable. The last book of the novel was the best. The book is worth reading...but I wouldn't read it twice as I've done other books.
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Summary: Sidney Sheldon was at the top. He was a Master of the Game.
Review: A Point To Be Made: This is a somewhat unoriginal tale trademarked by Sheldon's predictable and telltale strategy of evoking shock by turning to archetypes and extremes. As usual, the important characters are extremely rich, extremely powerful, extremely successful at whatever endeavour they pursue, extremely beautiful, or naive, or intelligent, or all three, extremely cruel, extremely vindictive, or spiteful, or both, and extremely good schemers. Overusing the word extremely? Sure I am, and that is how you feel after reading Sheldon's book. Especially if you have read other books by him in the last year or so. Kate Blackwell (main character) is yet another strong female character whose light just will not be dimmed, just like all the other female characters with an unstinting fortitude Sheldon moulds to be masters of the game of life, in their own right. (In the story with the four female medical doctors as the central characters, which I really enjoyed and read in one sitting, one of the characters (unintelligent, never studied a day in her life) actually sleeps her way through high school! Then into medical school!! Then all through medical school!!! Then, when her fellow doctors realise she doesn't know the difference between rhinoplasty and a pap smear, she sleeps with them too. In what world is that remotely conceivable? Other than this noteworthy points, and especially if this is your first Sheldon book, there really is nothing wrong with the story, and it is well worth your time. Sheldon proves that he is capable of mastery in several aspects of the constituents required to write a brilliant novel, even if his ideas are old and battered from overuse now. Another aspect that worries is how Sheldon seems to be getting mushy around the edges. Remember how brutal his first stories were? With the Mafia shooting boys, pornographers strangling Dutch prostitutes and thieves crippling pianists? The strain is naturally still there, but boy has it been toned down and diluted. Enamoured by his female characters he has always been, certain intrinsic elements within Master of the Game seem to portray that this softness has now extended beyond its previous pattern of sympathy with female characters and begun to affect the way his stories turn out. Master of the game is a good book produced by a good writer, but Sheldon was certainly at his best in the days of Napoleon Chotas, so-called the finest legal mind in history. Like most writers, his first work (The Naked Face) is a fictional classic which paved the way for his other productions. Nevertheless, a good page-turner, fine effort. Official Rating 7.8 / 10 - Rounded up to four stars
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Summary: supremo uno
Review: Master of the Game is the story chronicling the formation, growth and eventual conglomeration of Kruger-Brent Ltd, as well as the search for its heir-apparent.
Jamie McGregor left his family behind in Scotland, looking to fortune-seek for diamonds in South Africa. After hardships, deprivations, he strikes it rich, only to lose everything at the hands of a certain Mr. Van der Merwe, a merchant in a small town.
Jamie leaves the town, returns a year later as a rich man, founder of Kruger-Brent Ltd., a company named after two men who tried to kill him. The chapter on his life closes when he is struck down by a stroke that turns him to a vegetable.
A new chapter begins with his wife, Magaret, taking over the company, then handing it down to her daugther, Kate.
The action begins.
With shrewdness, and a steel will, Kate Blackwell has taken Kruger-Brent from being a national company to being an international conglomerate. Now she has to raise an heir: she starts with her son; ends with her granddaugthers. Yet unknown to Kate, she is up against an opponent who has learnt from her. By the end, there will be only one player left standing: The Master of the Game.
This is an engaging and provocative novel, tautly written.
Sidney Sheldon has excelled in creating strong, independent women; Kate Blackwell must rank as one of his best.
We empathize with her, even as she does the wrong things for the right reasosns. From Jamie to Eve, we understand their virtues, even as we recognize their vices.
Like the Matrix, the side characters in this elaborate plot are obsessed with choice; the main characters with control.
Even when we wonder at the utility of attenuating the males--most be a destructive gene, we still suspend our incredulity for rumination only when the covers are closed.
Book lovers, this is entertainment in its purest form.
Enjoy
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Summary: Resonates with the passage of time.
Review: I first discovered Sidney Sheldon back in the mid-80s and subsequently went on a reading binge, reading six of his books in as many months, including "Rage of Angels" and "The Sands of Time." But the one book I remember the most, I remember turning the pages furiously with undeniable fervor, was "Master of the Game." This book is far and away Sidney Sheldon's masterpiece. While "The Other Side of Midnight" had its moments, after so many readings the more mediocre novels wear their formulaic plotting on their proverbial sleeves. If I were to recommend any single Sidney Sheldon novel to read, as I did to a co-worker recently who consumed this book in less than a week raving all the while, it would be "Master of the Game." This has all the best trappings of Sidney Sheldon novels: exotic locales, travel, intrigue, lovemaking, adventure, the rich, the ambitious, and all the possible seedy characters in between. This is a page turner without a shadow of a doubt. A solid second purchase recommendation for Sidney Sheldon is "The Sands of Time" which is also epic in its plotting and grand storytelling, but at no point before or since has Sidney Sheldon matched "Master of the Game." I heartily recommend buying this book as soon as possible. "Master of the Game" is a splendid representation of all that is appealing about popular fiction.
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Summary: Another great Sheldon tale of greed, lust, and vengence
Review: Sidney Sheldon's story of big business, lust, greed, and revenge spans four generations, starting with Jamie McGregor, who leaves Scotland in 1850 to strike it rich in the diamond fields of South Africa. He overcomes many hardships, becomes a millionaire, and starts the Kruger-Brent company. His daughter, Kate, pushes the company until it becomes a world-wide conglomerate, and moves her headquarters to America. To her chagrin, her son Tony wants to be a painter, not a businessman. His twin daughters, Alexandra and Eve, are as different as can be. One of them may be a killer...
The book is absolutely riveting, with Jamie's adventures putting him in a new danger on every page. Kate, the so-called Master of the Game, spends most of her ninety years buying and manipulating everyone in her path, in her relentless search for a worthy corporate successor. As in all of Sheldon's books, there is action, suspense, romance, and memorable characters that his fans are sure to enjoy.
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Summary: my first sheldon-- still the best!
Review: If you want to read 500 pages just to get to a crappy ending then go ahead and read this book. I just don't get it. It fails you, you expect something and all you get is 'i know someone whos a dear old friend of Zubin Mehta'If i missing something please fill me in, otherwise I do not recommend this book.
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Summary: Please do not waste your precious time on this schlock
Review: A woman recaps her life and the life of her company through her father, husband, children, and even her grandchildren's lives. How she became the woman she is and what she did to obtain and keep her power. The people she encounters are useful only if they can help her. Even her family is not safe from her powerful clutches. She controlls everyone--even if it means protecting a murderer--if it meant her family name and company would be spared.
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