The Day After Tomorrow

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Summary: This book is so terrible, I wanted to cry.
Review: The ending of this book is the most horribly predictable and melodramatic thing I've ever read. It was so disappointing, I almost threw the book away, even though the copy I read wasn't my own.

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Summary: A good book
Review: The plots are complicated and the author is able to connect them, well. I came across this book by chance but after I read the first few pages, there was no turning back, or putting down. In fact, my wife and I 'fought' for the book. The story is exciting, full of actions and mysteries. It makes the readers wanting to know the ending and it does it well, and everything is only revealed at the end, right down to the last 2 words. Well, I don't want to give the story away but I have one question. How could Von Holden carry something so important to the organisation in a box that could fall open when dropped on the floor?

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Summary: proof that anyone can write a best-seller
Review: God - where to begin? How in the world did this thing get published?!!? The prose is puerile, the plot preposterous (and predictable), and the characters cardboard. I can't recall ever having seen so much hype so terribly misdirected. Aside from being lousy fiction, he got his physics and biology all wrong, too. You've all heard the proposition about one million monkeys with one million type writers producing 'Hamlet' if given enough time? This thing wouldn't take a brain-damaged baboon more than 15 minutes with a dull pencil! I've heard a rumor that Mr. Folsom was paid a record amount for this crap. I'd say he should use the money to replace all the trees that were killed to print this on

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Summary: Wonderful entertainment, great page-turner, solid value
Review: Loved it, felt sorry when it was over. Right up there withStephen King, Robert Parker, or John Grisham for sheer page-turning readability.Completely devoid of any redeeming value, just pure mind-Twinkies. Like Ian Fleming, Folsom projects an air of complete conviction in the ridiculous details of his adolescent fantasy world. Plenty of hidden doors, secret tunnels, and concealed video cameras. My favorite character is the bad guy who has deliberately had his legs amputated so he can disguise himself by altering his height after shooting somebody (snap off the long prostheses, snap on the short ones. I enjoyed the fact that _I_ was able to guess the ending _long_ before the hero does. Hint: it's not Elvis Presley that the ex-Nazis are trying to revive. (But I how could Von Holden carry a box "26 inches high by two feet square" in a rucksack?)

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Summary: Can't wait to read the next chapter .
Review: I'm a slow reader .I need to read books that really keep my attention.This was the best book I've read in along time.It had a fast and interesting story line , also a very good ending. When it's a good story like this you don't want it to end . .

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Summary: absolutely impossible to put down
Review: There are many books which are reviewed with terms like "awesome" or "fantastic" but this book deserves those acolades and so many more. From the very first chapter you are drawn in by the events and characters of this book. The pace never lets up until the very,very last line of the book. You'll find many chapters where you'll have to stop reading so that you can catch your breath. The only,and I mean only drawback to this book is that even after its 900 plus pages have been completed you still crave more. I anxiously scan the web's book pages daily for word of Mr, Folsoms next endeavor.

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Summary: Intense
Review: Definitely one of the best thrillers ever. Allen Folsom's ability to put an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation is something not often seen. A lot of writers of the genre tend to make their main characters too invinsible. Bravo to The Day After Tomorrow!!!

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Summary: A good story but the ending is easy to predict
Review: The book was different from many other thrillers because the "good guy" turns out to be the evil doctor who killed thousands of people, only to get himself in a position where he could kill one hundred "really bad guys" 40 years after the killing began. Confused? The book kind of does that to you. The author introduced far too many characters who were not realistic. Would a man really cut off his lower legs, just to wear different prosthetics to change costumes? Would a assassin really slit her own throat to get away from a stressed out medical intern? Would a really dumb physical therapist fall madly in love with a man she knew for only a few days, after he drugged her and let an old man sleep with her while she was passed out? Would a tourist from the US joke to another American stranger, with a gun in his beltline, about who he was going to kill?

The other annoying thing was the head in the box. Did cryogenics labs from 1945 (if there were any) provide perfect containers for a severed head, which could stand the test of time? This book would have been better predicting DNA and cloning instead of saving the heads of old guys. Wouldn't a 100+ year-old head look kinda weird on the body of a 24 year old adonis?

If you want to kill a week or so reading a stretch of anyone's imagination, go ahead. If not skip it and read one of the classics.

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Summary: starts well, then disappoints
Review: I should start off by saying that I truely enjoyed Folsom's second novel "Day of Confession" (see my review) and that was the reason to pick up his first work. This book starts off just as engaging and wraps the reader into a very complex plot that begins to span multiple European locations and intersting characters. The plot overall starts off very well designed and the main charcter of Paul Osborn in his personal quest to find answers to his father's murder 30 years ago comes across as quite engaging. Also the character of McVey, the American policeman, is well drawn. The characters are definitely not the problem here, neither is it Folsom's ability to move through foreign and complex locations with ease. Their are well researched in their physical detail. The story really begins to disappoint when he starts to unfold the Nazi conspiracy and the whole plot moves to Germany. I am German and found his unrealistic, twisted and sad description of post-reunification Germany quite appaling. The inserted bits of German language are lame, inappropiate and in later parts mostly wrong. Germans don't speak like that! Most of all: we don't act like that!

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Summary: A book you can't put down.
Review: You know you are reading a good book when you glance at the clock and see that it's 2am and don't care that you have to get up for work in four hours. The Day After Tommorrow is one of those books. It is a myserious and fast-paced thriller that can stand up to the best works of Ludlum. This is a definite must-have for any political/espionage thriller lover.