The Best Laid Plans

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Summary: The Best Film I've ever read
Review: Sheldon's latest novel is easy reading. I read it in two days and enjoyed it immensely. However one cannot help but feel that th author has capitulated and written this with one eye on the film royalities he will no doubt receive.This book is perfect train journey reading since although engrossing it asks little of the reader in terms of imagination and empathy.

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Summary: Spend a Saturday Nite w/ this one
Review: This is a good book by Sheldon. It sure is not one of his "Bestest", however, this book is riveting and will open new horizons on politics and the government in general.

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Summary: Typical Sheldonian Suspense
Review: Right from the first Sheldon's Book I read, I've been carried away by the twists & turns in it. Though I knew that in The Best Laid Plans, there was going to be a surprising twist in the end, I could not, till the end guess what who/ how it couls be.Only when I finished reading it and went back and read some pages again, I realised that there could even be such a twist to the tale-THAT'S THE CLASSIC SHELDONIAN TWIST.

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This book is amazing! I started reading and finished the book in two days! It grabbed my attention at the begining and then I kept on going amazed at all the twists and turns in the book. Sheldon lets the reader experience a range of emotions, sadness, excitement, rage, hostility, and so on. The characters are well developed and its excellently worked out on how they connect. Piece by piece the puzzle is being made, I am almost sure the reader will be surprised to see the completion at the end of the book.

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Summary: I thought that this book lacked his usual greatness.
Review: This latest book of Sidney Sheldon was lacking something. It was by far one of my least favorite books that he's written. Although as usual there was an unsuspected twist and an ending you never really thought of. It was the kind of book that I didn't mind sitting down, as for his others I'd read in a night.

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Summary: Losing Steam
Review: I read EVERYTHING Mr. Sheldon writes, however, his recent works are very disappointing. This books starts out grabbing your interest then just loses steam along the way. Being a big fan, I read it to the end HOPING something would twist, turn, and intrique but it never happened.

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Summary: Very Good Book
Review: This is a great book. I am a diehard Sheldon fan. I bought the book site unseen and had the hardest time putting it down. Wonderful read, I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a satirical twist to the present Washington scandal.

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Summary: A MUST READ, WITH A TWIST OF LIME
Review: Sheldon exploits the much used line of "Hell has no fury as a woman scorned." The story begins with the meeting of bold and beautiful Leslie Steward, public relations and advertising executive at the Lexington, Kentucky, firm of Bailey & Tomkins and promising young attorney and gubernatorial candidate, Oliver Russell. Leslie is introduced to run his public relations campaign. Their relationship blossoms into wedding plans as his governor race comes to a depressing close. Oliver's mentor and would-be father in law, Senator Todd Davis, offers him a career deal of a life time he just can't refuse: to marry his daughter and he will make him president. Oliver accepts and Leslie who finds herself virtually, left at the altar, vows to pay him back in spades. The story follows the happy couples' rise to power as the State of Kentucky's first couple and in short order succession to the White House. Along with the once scorned Leslie who trots off to Arizona, where she eventually becomes the wife of a wealthy businessman, Henry Chambers. Their marriage is short lived as Henry dies just two years later leaving Leslie free to expand his media holding and to pursue her obsessive need to even the score with her egotistical ex-lover, Oliver. Although Leslie develops an almost insurmountable smear campaign against the newly elected, over active libido driven president. A campaign that figuratively turns around to bite her, leaving Leslie with more than egg on her pretty face. Oliver becomes the champion of the people, pursuing his foreign affairs agenda, to make peace in the Middle East. Sheldon truly uses his talent for writing and exploiting current affairs to bring his fans a fictional twist of John Steinbeck's coined quotation, "The Best Laid Plans."

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: From looking over some of the other reviews I noticed that some people didn't like the book and I think that you have to be into politics to really enjoy it. I am 14, and I really enjoy politics and I really enjoyed this book. I still say that "The Doomsday Conspiracy" is still Sheldon's best book after reading only 5, this book ranks number 2. I have read 3 books by Sidney Sheldon this WEEK. And I cannot do that for any other author. I have not been disappointed in his works yet, and plan to read many more by him.

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Summary: Very Good Book!!
Review: This was my first Sidney Sheldon novel and I found it to be very intruiguing. From the get-go, I thought that Leslie was going to be the heroine, until the very end. I just knew, just KNEW that Oliver was guilty. A very surprising ending!!