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Summary: Makes your skin crawl
Review: Before reading this book I had always dismissed Rendell as your average boring murder-mystery writer. How wrong could I have been. Sight for Sore Eyes is a psychological thriller of the highest order, littered with a well-drawn cast of psychopaths to make your skin crawl. Horrific yet believable, the book is a masterpiece.
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Summary: Rendell at her best!
Review: Every time I read a Ruth Rendell book, I savor it like a sumptuous dessert that is so good you hate for it to end. Rendell's ability to construct inticate plot lines that seem unrelated but mesh in the end is unsurpassed as is her ability to create characters whose obsessions both fascinate and repel. This is an immensely entertaining book.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: For any other author, this book might rate another star, but Ruth Rendell is fabulous and this book isn't.Although Rendell always gets into the heads of some very strange people, somehow, these folks just weren't believable. Strangely enough, it was because they were, in a way, innocuous considering the level of their sickness. It was difficult to get upset about Teddy's murders (or death) since it all seemed incredibly easy. Just go nite-nite and don't wake up. And I couldn't figure Julia out at all. Why did she deteriorate like that? And to lock Francine in her room as the ultimate act of insanity...gasp! A far cry from Rendell's usual convoluted motivations and plot.
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Summary: My first Rendell book
Review: Having read all of the P.D. James books available, I've been reading the books by her friend, Ruth Rendell. This is the first one I picked up. I enjoyed the characters, who are a strange bunch and not very likeable really, and what happened to them. The deaths that occur are not your usual murders with police investigation. In fact only one is brought to the attention of the police. The others are just disappearances of the persons, which no one follows up on, and one apparently from natural causes. I loved the ending. It would make a good Hitchcock movie.
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Summary: Another gripper from the master!
Review: I agree with the previous reviewer that this type of Rendell is far superior to the Detective Wexford stories. Not that Wexford isn't terrific, it's just that the Rendell psychological suspense type stories do go much farther into the individual characters' backgrounds and mindsets. They are more in the vein of the Barbara Vine novels that she does. Her books always have the ironic twist (how DOES she do it?) at the end and they stay with you for some time after you finish. You can't go wrong with Ruth Rendell.
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Summary: Teddy couldn't exist in today's world
Review: I enjoyed the book, but was diappointed with it once Teddy and Francine became a couple. His treatment of her was completely unrealistic. How could Teddy NOT have known how to eat (and how much the food cost) at a restaurant? He had been on his own for years--I understand that he was isolated growing up--but The Chance's took him place, he had a television. He was FAR TOO naive for me. I also found it hard to believe that he was raised so indifferently--That his parents cared so little for him that he grew up knowing NO love. Francine was more of a troubled soul, because she was willingly manipulated by an evil-stepmother and a "typical" father--one who is so out of touch that he can't even begin to believe that HE might know better than Julia how to raise his child. He NEVER rebelled against Julia's strange desires for his child. This book portrayed a lot of loners who made no impact on anyone else's life--How could Keith and Harriet just disappear?
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Summary: Fascinating novel
Review: I enjoyed this book so much. It's definitely one of the best books I have ever read. She does an amazing job of showing what makes the characters tic. The book has it all-- a sinister and creepy quality, sick humor, and mystery!
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Summary: Unsavory characters, inept psychology
Review: I grow weary of Ms Rendell's inept psychology. She limns interesting situations but her understanding of human psychology (and in this case, the psychology of childhood trauma) so badly that it makes the journey painful for anyone familiar with these things.
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Summary: A Fun Complex Character Study
Review: I have hardly been able to put this one down. Teddy Brex is a bizarre psycho and the web weaved by Ruth Rendell is suspensful and chilling. That creatures like this excist I believe possible. Neglect is the harshest abuse and could definatley breed a monster!
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Summary: VERY BAD
Review: I have read or listened to most of Ruth Rendell's books. This is absolutely the worst book I have read. I didn't bother finishing it. Maybe it was just an off year for Ms. Rendall. I hope so.
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