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Summary: I sound like a broken record, but I liked it!
Review: Liked it, liked it. Fast paced and suspenseful. A must read for fans
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Summary: One of the best mysteries I've read in a while
Review: It was magnificent. I picked it up at a Border's bookstore for 3 dollars just to see how it was. ever since I've read it I've been stuck on her books. It was great a little gory at parts but it had a wonderful storyline and plot. I would highly recommend this to anyone that loves mysteries.
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Summary: Good...up until the end!
Review: I was really into this book and was having a hard time putting it down. But the end left me totally unstatisfied. I felt that it was rushed and really left no closure, almost like there were pages misssing from my book that would compliment the story. It was as if the author was faced with constraints in time or space. Great story line...bad ending.
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Summary: Overwritten and underdeveloped
Review: I like the idea. I like strong women characters. And I like mysteries, suspense, and crime stories. But I don't like Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta stories. It's very hard to differentiate between her characters, and the "surprise ending" leaves the reader feeling cheated, as there is no development leading up to the conclusion. One feels as if one has read a several hundred page prologue to a short story. Instead of character development, we are treated to the condition of the women character's breasts (perky, upright, sagging, fat) and just how much the male characters smoke.The main character, Kay Scarpetta, is hugely judgemental, frighteningly paranoid, and irritatingly egotistical. The story grinds to a halt here and there as Kay spouts off yet another moralizing homily about the right to privacy (except when SHE needs information), the right to own an arsenal of weapons, and the right to sleep with someone else's husband. Oh, and the right to be unbearable after giving up smoking. (For one painted as such a sterling genius, the whole smoking emphasis suffuses the book with an overtone of cognitive dissonance.) The idea is interesting. The sketch of characters is interesting. Patricia Cornwell needs to get out the way and let the story flow.
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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: I had to read and do a report on this book for school. I thought I would never get finished reading it in time. When I started reading, I was thinking, this is going to be so boring. But once I read a few pages I couldn't stop. When I would try to put it down at the end of a chapter, I couldn't because I wanted to find what would happen next! I would definitely recommend reading this great novel.
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Summary: Awesome book!
Review: This is the first ever mystery/Thriller I have ever read. My mom gave it to me to read, I read it in a two days! Now I am hooked and look forward to reading many more from her!
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: The whole book was pretty good up until the very end. I don't think she should have left Gault there because he had a chance of escaping and start murdering again. If I were Scarpetta I would've either killed him or arrested him.
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Summary: Stereotypical characters kill the book
Review: Cornwell does have somewhat interesting story lines and the ME aspect is definitely interesting. However, any momentum the book hopes to attain is thwarted time and time again by her stereotypical characters. Why does every man have to be a one-dimensional macho idiot who can't believe that a woman can hold such a serious job? Does Cornwell truly believe that men are like this? Meanwhile, Scarpetta and her niece Lucy are depicted as physically fit, attractive geniuses who eagerly whip up a seven course Italian dinner after working a 16 hour day, everyday. I forgot to mention they are rich and always level-headed with never an 'off' day. Essentially these characters have no challenges left except for contrived (mostly relationship) problems. Scarpetta ponders being perfect while not being loved or able to let herself love another. Well, if she didn't love herself so much that would be a first step. She's definitely egocentric. Lucy would be as egocentric, but alas, she is humbled through her worship to her shrine - Scarpetta. Lucy was almost challenged with alcoholism but thankfully that challenge ended after a few months (yet another narrow escape from character development). Lucy also has a hard time with relationships and can't seem to find that right person who complements her intellect and beauty on an even level. To wit, it's lonely at the top. Being perfect is attainable - 1) love yourself first, 2) stay single, 3) proceed with a monastic life of studying all day and night, 4) learn to cook. And remember: what being over-worked, grossly over-sensitive, and self absorbed don't do for your heart and social life they make up for in your bank account and your bloated sense of self-importance.
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Summary: It is good
Review: Very goo
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Summary: "From Potter's Field" is one of Cornwell's best!
Review: I recently got hooked on Patricia Cornwell's series of novels featuring Kay Scarpetta, and I thought "From Potter's Field" was excellent. The plot was terrific, and the characters are so real. After reading the book you feel like you know them. Cornwell also does a great job of making the crimes and detailed as possible. And her evil character Temple Gault is one of the most frightening fictional characters I've ever come across. My advice is that you definitely read this book, but only if you've read at least one of the previous novels so that you're familiar with Gault, and several of the incidents that play a part in this story line.
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