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Summary: 5 Star Book
Review: I have never read a book like,"Morning, Noon, and Night." Sidney Sheldon did an exquisite job on the plot. The story revolved around a billion dollar man named Harry Stanford. He had four children. Three by his wife and one by another woman he had an affair with. Harry was brutal towards his children. He had no faith in them and had no love for them. His wife committed suicide no longer after Harry's affair. She could tolerate his abuse no longer. Stanford was in for it big time. Many people were out to get him. Only, the outcome of his death is the most crucial part of the book. I will put it this way: Stanford had a will that was being divided three ways, or maybe even four. The content was a definate pleasure in the story. Fraud, suicide, murder, drugs, sex,and swearing were main points. The most surprising of all the themes is undeniably the fraud. Sidney Sheldon described the fraud so flawlessly, that even the closest reader could not have caught the drift. His tricks on your mind threw the curves desired in a priceless novel. The suicides were undoubtfully enormous cases of irony. Irony just makes a story twice as much fun. Last but not least, advanced audiences aren't left out. The sexuality and sexual themes were existant and quite vivid. These themes makes a premium read that much better. I definately, recommend this book,"Morning, Noon, and Night", to anyone and everyone. Sheldon, unmistakenably, has the most original style I have ever seen a writer have. Sheldon has major capacity and skills. It's a quick read, because it never drops to a broing read. Also, a reader must read and comprehend most details. It always leaves you thinking and guessing. This book, is one of the best I have ever read, and I do indeed recommend this book to everyone who is literate.
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Summary: again and again
Review: I have read this book twice now, the first time in seven hours. I have read all but two of Sheldon's book (for now) I own or have easy access to the mini-series of Memories of Midnight, Windmills of the Gods, Rage of Angels, If Tomorrow comes and Master of the Game. Sheldon is one of my favorite authors and his books just fly by. I have read several of them three-four times. If you haven't read him...DO.
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Summary: I loved this book, couldn't put it down, thrilling!!!
Review: I love the way Sidney Sheldon writes . When you least expect it, he astonishes you, and you can't believe it, in my opinion one of the best fiction writers, I would put down S.S. as my favorite writer
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Summary: Finished in 41/2 straight hours!
Review: I never once put this book down except to grab a bite to eat or to pee. I highly recommend this book to any one who likes to read. It will appeal to a wide range of people.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: I read this book in less than 3 days, and I enjoyed every page. This is the story about a very rich man named Hary Stanford who dies a mysterious death by drowning. Seeing that he had children, he left them all an equal share of his billions of dollars. However, a woman named Julia shows up shortly after claiming to be a product of the affair between Harry and the housekeeper named Rosemary. The will states that each of his children will recieve an equal amount of his money, Julia is just as entitled to it. I don't want to go much further or else I'll spoil the plot, but I just want to say that this book reminds me of the movie Nurse Betty, because every event is more surprising and ironic as the last. It is a very exciting story which will keep you on the edge of your seat up to the last word.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: I read this book in less than 3 days, and I enjoyed every page. This is the story about a very rich man named Hary Stanford who dies a mysterious death by drowning. Seeing that he had children, he left them all an equal share of his billions of dollars. However, a woman named Julia shows up shortly after claiming to be a product of the affair between Harry and the housekeeper named Rosemary. The will states that each of his children will recieve an equal amount of his money, Julia is just as entitled to it. I don't want to go much further or else I'll spoil the plot, but I just want to say that this book reminds me of the movie Nurse Betty, because every event is more surprising and ironic as the last. It is a very exciting story which will keep you on the edge of your seat up to the last word.
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Summary: What a mess!!
Review: I read this book when it first hit the shelves here in Australia (1995) and it should have stayed there. The plot is disordered, characterisation is non-existent, and there is no sense of finality. Is it my imagination, or is Sidney Sheldon homophobic? Besides "Nothing Lasts Forever", this is one of Sidney Sheldon's more forgettable creations.
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Summary: Good book, but not his best.
Review: I thought this book was a good book but it certainly was a ways from his best. It just didn't have all the suspense as all the other books by Sheldon have had. I would certainly recommend Sheldon to everyone who enjoys suspense and suprise endings. I read this book in one night, and being 14, I don't do that very often.
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Summary: Simply dreadful! [may contain "spoilers", beware!] :)
Review: I was shocked by the poor quality of the writing from such a well-known author. Though published in 1995, the reader is expected to ignore the then-well-known realities of DNA testing -- for instance, that shared parentage can be proved by comparing the DNA of siblings, not just from putative sibling to parent.
We're also asked to ignore the realities of fingerprint identification when it would have been immediately helpful in revealing an imposter's criminal record and actual identity.
Adding insult to injury, after ignoring the technique when it logically would have come into play, Sheldon brings in fingerprinting at the very tail of the book, in a complicated scenario involving latent prints to identify not the missing heiress, but rather, a private detective!
Every plot development was telegraphed in advance, and the decedent went from being rather interesting in the first few pages to a one-dimensional (and repetitive) demon throughout the rest of the too-long tome. Even the vocabulary and sentence structure were overly simplistic.
If you want to read the identical plot but done WELL, try "Amanda" by Kay Hooper, also published in 1995. Hooper has her character do some marvelously stupid things (again, failing to exploit DNA to the fullest in a timely way), but Hooper's vocabulary, syntax, character development and settings are vastly better than the careless work Sheldon provides in "Morning, Noon, & Night." I read the books only a week apart. Hooper's work was engaging, though somewhat predictable; Sheldon's was irritating, and ENTIRELY predictable.
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Summary: Sidney writes evil better than King.
Review: Mornin, Noon and Morning is the type of book were you go to a park hoping knowbody interupts you.Sidney always writes like it his last book, making sure he leaves a lasting impression on the reader.There that good.The books are so different and better than the last one, you have to read it in one gulp. Thats why he's the master of his domain
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