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Summary: Good!
Review: well... i read this book quite some time ago. however, i forgot to write a review! although i cannot really remember the exact details, i can vividly remember that it was a terrific novel which kept me reading from the 1st page to the last. a book that u really should not miss as it is really a novel with a plot that would only blow your mind away.
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Summary: What Dreams May Come
Review: Best-selling author Sidney Sheldon follows The Best Laid Plans with Tell Me Your Dreams, a suspense thriller that ranks in the category of disappointing. In the first part of the book, we are introduced to three beautiful women: Ashley Patterson, Toni Prescott and Alette Peters. Ashley is in her mid-twenties, smart and attractive, and works as a graphics designer for Global Computer Graphics Corporation in Cupertino, California. She is the only child of an overbearing father, Dr. Steven Patterson, a celebrity for having pioneered a breakthrough in minimally invasive heart surgery. As the story begins, Ashley feels as if someone is following her combined with an almost overwhelming sense of impending doom. Sheldon is especially good here at creating Ashley's palpable sense of bewilderment and fear over the strange things that are happening to her. Meanwhile, Toni Prescott, who is twenty-two, impish, vivacious and daring, and also works at Global Computer Graphics, discovers the joys of chatting with men on the internet. Maybe, she thinks, she'll find the one man who can save her. But, save her from what? We'd sure like to know. And gentle, Italian-speaking, twenty-year-old Alette Peters, who also happens to work at Global Computer Graphics and is friends with Toni Prescott (but not Ashley Patterson), suffers from manic-depression and uncontrollable recurring feelings of alienation from others. To her great surprise, Alette becomes completely smitten with a young man who shares her interest in art, instead of merely thinking horribly ugly things about him like she does about most other people. Against this backdrop of mounting paranoia and romantic intrigue, a series of brutal murders begins to occur. While this is all interesting enough to keep you reading, I feel most readers will be able to quickly figure out who the killer is long before Sheldon lets us in on the "secret" (right on cue, according to the formula of his plot). The focus of the second -- and by far the most enjoyable -- part of the book shifts to David Singer, an attorney with a prestigious San Francisco law firm he is about to be made partner in. From the moment Mr. Singer is introduced, our hearts go out to him. You'll be rooting him on as he navigates a fascinating circus of a murder trial that unfolds at a breathless pace. This is where Sheldon makes the best use in the entire book of his considerable talents at creating an ever-increasing level of suspense that will keep you turning the pages to see what happens next. Shocking revelations await in the third part of the book, where Ashley Patterson, Toni Prescott and Alette Peters once again take center stage, and we are at last rewarded with answers to the who, what, when, where and why in vividly rendered detail. The problem is that this is the least believable section of Tell Me Your Dreams -- because the author stretches the limits of credibility in the world he has created way too far. To his credit, however, Sheldon drops one heck-of-a bombshell in an ending that is truly surprising and that does make the book worth the effort of reading. While Tell Me Your Dreams is vintage Sheldon, told in his trademark cinematic style complete with the fast-pacing, fast-reading dialogue and limited exposition he is justifiably well-known for, I feel that, on the whole, he fails to make the most of it. Maybe if the book had been plotted a little differently, it would have been more suspenseful and I wouldn't have had that nagging feeling I had while I was reading it that, except for the very end, I knew what was going to happen next. Also, Sheldon doesn't make us feel as sorry for the heroine of the tale as he should. Considering all that happens to her, she truly deserves our deepest sympathy. Pray that what dreams may come for you are not as awful as hers. Though the premise and subject matter of Tell Me Your Dreams are also certainly intriguing, I would rate the book disappointing overall because of its annoying predictability. Pick up Bloodline, Rage of Angels, Master of the Game, If Tomorrow Comes, The Best Laid Plans or even his newest book, The Sky Is Falling, for a more enjoyable read.
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Summary: Sidney Sheldon Writes An MPD Story With A Masterful Hand
Review: Ashley Patterson seems like any normal woman, but beneath her lovely exterior lies many secrets to behold, and a terror that she has trouble accepting. Once Ashley sees the whole story, another ghost from the past enters to bring to light why her life has turned out like it has. Her father, Dr. Patterson, stands behind his daughter through the whole story, reminding her that she is all he has. Is he as heartless as he seems, or is he just trying to cover up a past from long ago that still haunts his daughter's life? Tell Me Your Dreams is an intricately woven story with surprise twists and turns, revelations that make one wonder, and the brutal murders of innocent men, all due to one man's abnormal passions that link Ahsley, Toni, and Alette together in a fiendish nightmare.
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Summary: Psychological mystery murder!
Review: TELL ME YOUR DREAMS starts out with the introduction of three women, Ashley, Toni, and Alette. All three are very different, and only two of them know each other. A few chapters and several murders later, we find out that all three women are the same person. It's a story centered on multiple personality disorder, and I found it fascinating. The controversy behind this disorder is one of the main themes of the book - does it really exist? Are there truly people out there that ARE made up of several distinct personalities in one person? TELL ME YOUR DREAMS is one of many Sidney Sheldon books I've read over the years. This novel, however, is written in a slightly different format. Although this novel was great, I felt that it could've been treated as two different novels, because there are actually two different "endings" to this story: the conclusion of the trial is one ending, and the afterward that goes into Ashley's psychiatric case is another conclusion. It read like TWO books, with the 2nd part of the book being an "addendum" to the first; a follow up story to what happened to the woman with the split personalities. Although both parts of the book were interesting enough for me, I dont' feel this is one of Sheldon's better novels, in terms of structure. But as always, he knows how to tell a good story! I could not put this book down and it created an interest to look further into cases of multiple personality disorders. I recommend this book, especially to fans of Sidney Sheldon.
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Summary: Absolutely Wonderful - never another book like this!
Review: Hats off to you Mr. Sheldon! This is such a gripping and interesting story about MPD. I bought the book while I was on a vacation and I never felt like leaving my hotel room to go anywhere else. The only thing I wanted to do was read this book and finish it off soon so that I could know what the end is. Storyline was so good! It kept me guessing for so long what the connection between Ashley, Toni and Alette was. Very well written and has the perfect pace!
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Summary: From a disappointed reader
Review: I used to be faithful reader of Sidney Sheldon. Sadly, I think I'll stop being one. I was really disappointed with this book. Anyone with half a brain could figure out that the three female characters were really one person by the time they had read the first half of the book. And the multiple personality stuff was SO obvious that I felt I already knew how the story would end. Maybe Mr.Sheldon is tiring.
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Summary: Wow....
Review: Ashley Patterson appears to be a shy and conservative computer graphics designer, but when many of her closest male associates are discovered brutally murdered, DNA evidence points to Ashley as the serial killer. Morgan Fairchild's depiction of Ashley reveals her to be a tormented woman suffering from multiple personality disorder. Ashley is host to a cunning homicidal British singer and a demure Italian artist, and Fairchild transitions creatively as these two personalities converse with one...
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Summary: Sheldon Does It Again!
Review: Tell Me Your Dreams, a suspenseful psycho thriller by Sheldon, is another can't put down book! Ashley Patterson, suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), is accused of committing numerous brutal and ghastly murders, all on men, and all of which she cannot remember doing. Sheldon has us suspended during the courtroom proceedings and leads us down a path, where you are kept wondering, "how is Ashley going to get out of this one?" With a reversal of a guilty verdict, we follow Ashley into a psychiatric hospital where her goal is to integrate her other two personalities, label her "cured" and release her back into society. I found the chapters on the treatments of MPD quite fascinating and can only imagine the real-life horrific traumas occur to have this happen to people, as explained in the book - (I don't want to give away the suspense!) The ending is TOTALLY unexpected, which keeps Sheldon's fans coming back for more and more and more . . . . Just make sure you read the ending slowly!! This book, even though it is fiction, is based on actual medical evidence. I thoroughly recommend this book and once again, Sheldon fans will NOT be disappointed.
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Summary: Un-missable. You must read this!
Review: Three beautiful young women are suspected of commiting a series of brutal murders. The police make an arrest that leads to one of the most bizarre cases of the decade. Maybe even the century. That is the in-a-nutshell story of Tell Me Your Dreams, and it is based on fiction police work and real cases. This book is absolutely stunning, it is a chillingly real and clever novel that will have your eyes super-glued to every single, brilliant page. Sidney Sheldon is an awesome writer, this is one of his best books, and there is alot of competition. If I haven't got it through your head yet, YOU MUST READ THIS!
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Summary: promising start, but weak finish
Review: It's hard to say how this story should be judged. Call it a detective story? But then the truth is fully exposed just halfway through the book. Call it a psychological thriller? But then the psychological flavor isn't very strong, certainly not as strong as "The Red Dragon" or "Silence of the Lambs". Call it a courtroom drama (which is perhaps the better part of the book)? But then it covers only 1/3 of the story. Most of the characters are less than intriguing such that I don't know if I care what could happen to them. The beginning of the book promises an interesting case of whodunit, with people surrounding Patterson mysteriously and brutally murdered. But just as things start to get interesting, it's immediately revealed that the girl suffers multiple personality disorder. From that point on the story quickly turns into a courtroom drama as her lawyer tries to bail her out. The trial is less than dramatic, although I enjoyed the brief but interesting interactions between the good lawyer and the judge and his law firm. The end of the trial is sort of sloppy: the judge simply over-rules the jury's decision after watching a videotape in her office! I'm not sure if the American judicial system really works such a way. As I thought the story should have ended with the trial, it drags on with Patterson's treatment in a psychiatric hospital. This third part of the story, I must say, is unnecessary. Besides the revealation of Patterson's childhood trauma as the cause for her MPD, this part adds little to the story, and certainly diffuses the focus. Overall this book makes a good evening reading, but don't expect too much just because it has Sheldon's name on it.
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