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Summary: Great!
Review: This has to be one of "THE BEST" books I have "EVER" read. It kept you going from the very first sentance to the (now infamous) very last. I couldn't put it down! I kept saying "OK just one more chapter, just one more chapter" and then go on to read the next five!
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Summary: Non Stop Action
Review: This book will have you guessing until the end. Its like being on a roller coaster. If you like Ludlum or Demille, you will love reading this book. I can't wait to read Folsom's next book, "Day of Confession"
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Summary: Could this ever become a real threat???????
Review: Great book, Makes you think about the german way of thinking once more. I would'nt say that things like this could never happen again in Germany. It's a strange kind of people
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Summary: Disappointing and predictable
Review: I read the majority of this book on a flight to England. It beat staring at the seat in front of me, but not by much. Way too many pages were spent setting up the reader for the "shocking" last sentence, but it was so obvious what was in the bo
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Summary: I should have stopped reading....
Review: One of the greatest regrets of my life is that I finished reading this book once I saw where it was going. About halfway through it becomes pretty clear what the payoff is going to be. I will concede--the book was well written enough to make me think that there had to be more to it than that.....that it couldn't be as simple as I thought it was. But it is that simple. And obvious. I want those hours of my life back. Don't make the mistake I made! Save yourself! Don't read this book!
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Summary: Great Plot and Fast Paced!
Review: I brought this book with me on a two-week vacation in Acapulco! It was well-plotted and fast-paced and I read it every chance I had: at the pool; at the beach; in the hotel room before breakfast. While the basic premise is scientifically "impossible" (perhaps!), it held my interest. I was not surprised by the ending! I knew it would be a shocker! Enjoyed!
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Summary: Proust It Ain't
Review: Folsom's THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW -- like LOVE STORY, famously -- is really a screenplay featuring inner dialogue, and not a novel. Yes, the writing was bad...but Folsom, thankfully, kept it simple so that the reading flew by and one didn't have to spend much time on the intellectually slight book. The psychology of the characters -- Osborn's "demons", etc. -- was so cliched as to be laughable...but simple enough for a passable adventure film. The plot was interesting, but flippant. There's a great adventure novel here, somewhere, about the legacy of Naziism in Germany, about hidden psychological currents that DO exist, but Folsom either touches on this theme too lightly (Renner's monologue) or overdoes it so that it explodes into a million pieces (the Ubermorgen plot, Hitler's frozen head), so that what could have been a novel about Germany to rival Le Carre's about the USSR and England is reduced to using a potentially fascinating theme as a plot device no more or less important than the killing of one character's father. I give the book two stars for plotting and execution; Folsom never allows the plot to become so complicated as to make the reader have to actually stop and think about what's happening, and that's a difficult Vidal's depressing observation that the villains of adventure novels are most often (at least implied) homosexuals. Again, Folsom could have used this aspect of the story to discuss the interesting homoerotic aspects of Nazi ideology, but uses his Nazi characters' homo- and bisexuality as simple titillation or as shorthand to create a vaguely sinister mood. Pretty cheap.) EN
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Summary: Incredibly interesting and fast-paced novel
Review: I found this book fascinating and fast-paced, wih interstering characters (maybe a few too many) and a great story. I wish more authors kept their chapters to 4-5 pages, which gives readers the option of putting the book down often. Folsom isn't as good as James Patterson, but I'd read another one of his books in a heartbeat.
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Summary: One of the great 20th century thrillers
Review: This is a great book which starts well and just gets better and better. The final sentence defies belief, and kind of puts one into a literal state of shock. This book is surely one of the great 20th century novels, well written and moving along at such a great pace that the reader finds it difficult to turn the pages quickly enough. Sadly the top mark available is only 5 stars.
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Summary: left me speechless
Review: For years I've given up on novels after 50 or a 100 pages or so, frustrated by boredom or weak pacing or contrived characters who seem to be able to do no wrong. After noticing a review of The Day After Tomorrow the week it was released in '94, I picked up the hardback at a local book store. From page one I was utterly astounded. Folsom has a deft touch. His plotting and detailing is second to absolutely noone. I read slowly and carefully and have no patience for writers who indulge themselves with long, flowery prose or bullet-proof characters. The story was probably a hundred pages too long (most of the unneeded heft coming in the middle section), but this tale was such a rare treat that I even hesitate to voice my complaint. I guess what impresses me the most about this novel, is that I feel that Folsom respected the reader while he was writing, he understood that we would be sacrificing free-time that could be spent elsewhere, and thus labored at holding our attention. This story was contrived, but fiction by its very nature is contrived, and the best fiction should make us want to believe that what we see on the page is really happening. Mr. Folsom, I applaud you. And yes, I believe.
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