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Summary: A Twisting Plot Through a Frightening Story
Review: Here we have a thriller that is decidedly different. In the summer of 1954, two US Marshalls, Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, ride the ferry to Shutter Island, off Boston Harbor. The island is the site of a hospital for the most dangerous of the criminally insane. The Marshalls are there to investigate the escape of Rachel Solando, a child murderer. Somehow, she got away through locked doors and past a whole staff of orderlies and guards. This raises Teddy's suspicions about a staff that seems more strange by the hour. Things become intense when an unexpected hurricane isolates the island from the mainland. So there you have it: murderous maniacs, creepy staff, and a howling hurricane. The plot could go in all sorts of directions, but Lehane chooses a startling tack that makes the story well worth reading. As it develops, it is like watching a photo come apart and dissolve in water. Then, Lehane hits you with an astonishing climax, followed by a final twist. It's a different and thoroughly ejoyable tale.
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Summary: Spectacular! Don't pass this one up!
Review: This was my first experience with this author. Wow! I was not a bit disappointed. From the first page I was hooked and didn't want to put this book down. The characters were so alive to me and I was able to envision the surroundings and the obstacles they were facing. The ending was a huge shocker to me! What a wonderful author, kept me wrapped up in this book to the very end. I had to re-read the ending and the prologue again just because I wasn't ready for the book to be over. Buy this book, pick it up at the library, borrow it from a friend! You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Great Book/Garbage Language
Review: I do not consider myself a prude, but I have to say that half way through this book I was so tired of every character using the "f" word every third sentence, with "JC" thrown in between that I was quite weary at the end. LaHane is a very good writer and the book was clever, but c'mon buddy! I work in the world and nobody I know talks like this constantly. You are much too gifted to stoop to this. I was thinking I would let my son read it, but nope....Too bad.
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Summary: You Think You've Figured It Out and....then....
Review: Dennis Lehane is a master of writing and surprise. He is one of the best writers of today- his possession of language and description surpass none. His new novel "Shutter Island" is one of the best. Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, U.S.Marshalls, are asked to go to Ashecliffe Hospital for the Mentally Insane to find an escaped patient/killer, Rachel Solando. Ashecliff is on an isolated island off the coast of Boston. From day one none of the staff are very helpful- always below the surface is a subtle message- we don't care, we are going through the motions from those who inhabit this strange island. The worst hurricane of the season occurs, and Teddy and Chuck going nowhere with this investigation, fear for their lives. Will they get off the island, will they find the killer, what is going on in the tower, and why does Teddy have such a hard time forgetting his dead wife? Will any of these questions be answered? Unless you have a tortured, twisted mind- the ending will clear the air. prisrob
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Summary: A Wonderful Read
Review: I was very excited about reading this book. I thought Mystic River was excellent so I expected good things from this book. I can honestly say I was not disappointed in the least. Shutter Island offers many twists and turns and the deeper Teddy gets the more he uncovers. If you like Mystic River then I really recommend reading Shutter Island.
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Summary: Shutter Island
Review: "Shutter Island" is a departure for Dennis Lehane from the Kenzie and Gennaro mysteries set in Boston. In "Shutter Island" U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, along with his partner Chuck Aule go to Shutter Island to find Rachel Solando who had escaped from the Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Nothing is at all as it seems throughout the book. It is part suspense, part psychological thriller, and part horror. This novel is one that could have come from the pen of Stephen King. It will definetely make you shudder. I prefer the Kenzie/Gennaro novels, but 'Shutter Island" is a novel you won't soon forget.
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Summary: creepy, c(r)awley, unforgettable but disappointed...
Review: ...in the finale. i keep reading reviews about the ending being completely unexpected but, i saw it as a possible outcome almost from the beginning. i was hoping he wasn't going to end it the way he did but was almost convinced of the outcome about 50 pages from the end... one reviewer mentioned it as a sell-out to the movie industry and i have to agree. the story seems to leave one hanging for a sequel. still, though, i couldn't put the dang thing down and lehane remains one of my favourite writers. actually, i'm having trouble deciding whether i like the book or not. it's definitely one i won't forget...
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Summary: Ohhhhh man.
Review: What a friggn' ending. Can't wait for the movie.
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Summary: Walked away dissatisfied
Review: Couldn't put it down, but when I got to the end, I wished I had not spent all that time reading it!
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Summary: Psychological Thriller Questions Reality
Review: Dennis Lehane's SHUTTER ISLAND is an engrossing, thought-provoking, psychological thriller that cleverly challenges the reader to evaluate the main character's sanity. The year is 1954 and U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of Rachel Sorrando,a patient who has mysteriously vanished from Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. As a mid-fifties psychiatric hospital located on a North Atlantic island directly in the path of a hurricane, the setting is used to good effect as it conjures up visions of psycho-surgery and drug experimentation on deranged, psychotic killers imprisoned within its dark and cold, storm-ravaged walls. The reader accompanies Daniels in his search for Sorrando while he meets and interacts with the colorful, enigmatic characters who populate the hospital and eventually challenge his grasp of reality. Without giving away the story, by the climax there are several well-spun storylines weaving the plot into a possible deception of a grand scale. Along with Daniels, the reader also questions what was really happenning to him. As I was trying to decide, I was reminded of the movie version of A BEAUTIFUL MIND in which the audience saw the realism of John Nash's delusions and believed they were real just as he did. Likewise, readers of SHUTTER ISLAND are immersed in the workings of the mind of Teddy Daniels and must decide what is real and what isn't. Very Real! Very Challenging! Very Well Done!!
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