Nothing Lasts Forever

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Summary: It's a quick read
Review: I would love Sidney Sheldon's books if he would take his time in writing more in depth of the characters and stuff. However, I did enjoy this book ~~ it's not my typical read anymore ~~ as I've read his books in high school. I haven't read this one and the mystery surrounding the three doctors at a big San Francisco hospital is a gripping read.

Dr. Paige Taylor, an ambitious heart surgeon wanna-be is accused of murder when she inherited a million dollars. Dr. Kat Turner and Dr. Honey Taft are filled with secrets of their own. While Paige fights for her life in court, the story spins unraveling the secrets of events that happened the previous year ~~ and the reader gets a closer glimpse of Paige and her roommates.

Looking for an exciting read with murder, suspense and mystery and romance? This book has it all! Despite the gritty writing, it is an enthralling read. I couldn't put the book down after a few chapters ~~ I just had to know what happened!

1-17-02

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Summary: NOthing Lasts Forever
Review: I would recommend this book to girls more than guys because it's more like a "cchick-flick" story. There are some love scenes, family issues, and just real life situations. A particular love scene that I remember was when the main character, Dr. Paige Taylor falls in love with a childhood friend. They always say they'll be together forever, but he ends up marrying someone else and Paige got broken-hearted. Read this book and find out what happen to Paige later. A family issue that makes people wonder why some people does things they shouldn't be doing. Like Kate Hunter, a lady that got rape by her stepfather when she was young. When she told her mother, she didn't believe her and slap Kate and called her a slut. What happen to Kate afterwar? How did she become a doctor and why did she get murdered? There's many real life situation in this book that makes you wonder did it happen to yourself yet. Have you ever been to a hospital and get scared because the doctor might not know what they're doing? Betty Lou Taft became a doctor by cheating. She seduced people that got in her way of becoming a doctor. In the real world there are a lot of people that take the easy way out. Cheating to become a doctor is putting many people's lives in danger. I feel that cheating is wrong in every situation.

This book makes you keep on wanting to read until you finish. This book can leave you hanging after each chapter and wanting to know what's going to happen next. It seems like Paige was a great doctor, but why does Dr. Lawrence Barker keep on yelling at her like he doesn't like her? Did Paige have somethign that John Cronin wants? Or maybe John Cronin realizes that she's a great doctor, the only person that cares for him. Just read this book and find out. This is a really great and interesting book. I hope you will read it someday and enjoy it like I did. I hope you would recommend this book to others too.

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Summary: Fun and fast paced, but not authentic of life in a hospital.
Review: If you like sex that is highly suggestive and titillating, but not really graphic, a murder mystery with a few twists, medical detective work and are willing to suspend reality for a few hours you will enjoy this book. It is pure escapist fun. (If you are a doctor you likely won't like the book, as the depiction of life in a county hospital for the three female residents, while somewhat entertaining, is mostly off the wall and in the realm of a day time soap opera.)

Sidney Sheldon has no trouble hooking the reader good, by the first page or two. The writing is fast paced enough that it is easy --if one is willing -- to suspend reality and any disbelief long enough to enjoy the ride.

The characters, while not flat, aren't exactly multi-dimensional either, despite the author attempting (and sometimes succeeding) to make things mysterious and interesting through the literary device of alternating the depictions of the three main characters, who have past histories, that shape their current life. (One who grew up in Africa; one who is brilliant, but with deep wounds in her soul; and one who is an expert in the sexual arts of the Kama Sutra.) Ironically, the potentially more multi-dimensional and engaging character is killed off too soon in the story, mainly to emotionally tear at the reader, add some gratuitous violence and set up a subplot to investigate a murder. None the less, the characters and details are still interesting enough to keep the reader's attention. Most of the villains, however, come across as flat and self centered and hence not real captivating, fortunately they are not central to the story.

The book starts out with Dr. Paige Taylor being on trial for the murder of one of her patients, with the motive being money -- lots of it. The story then flashes back to events that lead to the murder charge as well as the tragic murder of her roommate and associate. The reader's sympathies are deftly manipulated and by the end of the book one feels complete sympathy towards the characters one started out not liking.

A part I really liked is where the murder of Dr. Taylor's associate is solved through clever medical detective work. (Not going to give many details, so as not to spoil things.) While the setup for the investigation is not real believable, the medical sleuthing is engaging and done with more care and attention to detail.

By no means a piece of literature, but totally in line with mass market pulp fiction. If you have a long evening you want to kill and you like to read, you will likely be entertained and not disappointed.

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Review: Please remove, as I already have a review of this book.

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Summary: FLAWLESS - that's the best concept for this book!
Review: Sidney Sheldon is not the same anymore. His latest books are not up to his real standard. That's not what happens with this 1994 wonderful book, though.

The plot, wonderfully conceived, is a real thriller of suspense. The characters, the very well-developed three main characters, are just as funny and smart as your best friend. And actually this is the kind of feeling you get from the three doctors you have the chance to meet on this book.

From beginning to end, Sidney Sheldon hooks you until the very end! That's the kind of book you read, read, read and want it never to end, and, when it does, you miss a lot the places and people you've met. It's the kind of story that remains on your mind for many years. The kind of book you tell everyone to read, and that everyone just can't help but read and adore. That's what you feel when you read the books by Sidney Sheldon. And that one is one of his best works!

Marco Aurelio.