Mine

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Summary: McCammon's Best
Review: I read this for the 1st time about 2 years ago and have picked it up twice since then. I truely enjoyed this suspenseful book - its realism is almost creepy! I recommend this book to all thrill-lovers and often give it away as a gift

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Summary: Mine is outstanding!
Review: I stumbled on this book five years ago in my mom's dresser drawers. We were cleaning them out. I asked her what this book was about, and she said she found it at the office she works at. She brought it home, and forgot about it. I began reading the book immediately. The first parts absolutely gripped me from then on. Unfortunately, someone stole the book while I was at school. That was in the 8th grade. It wasn't until the 10th grade that I picked another copy up. It was just as wonderful as I remembered. Since then, I have read the book 8 times. It never gets old, and somehow it always seems so new. Great job Mr. McCammon...how about a sequel to Mine?

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Summary: "MINE"
Review: I think that Robert McCammon is a great writer. You don't get bored reading his books,once you start you have to finish it. "Mine" mixes history with fiction. It's a real thriller. Suspence and action is what makes a book worthwhile and intresting. Claudia Cox

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Summary: Almost a four star 3-1/2
Review: I wish Amazon had more ratings than 5 stars. There's books like this one that's way better than a 3 star rating but not quite as good as my four star books.

This book deserves a 3-1/2 star for the action alone. mccammon really knows how to keep a book moving with non-stop action and suspense. I read They Thirst by him and that book was the same way. The other positive point is that this is a book about a realistic horror of when a mother's baby is kidnapped. That has to be the worse thing other than death for anyone to experience. mccammon captures this excellently in the way he describes the mothers desparation to find her baby and the sheer terror of not knowing what has happened.
With that said, the best part of the book, is the villian. Mccammon develops a true realistic monster in Mary Terror and successfully explains how this woman has gotten to be so crazy by explaining her past and writing almost half the book from her perspective.
This book tied Stephen King's Misery for the Bram Stoker's award and after reading it you will know why.

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Summary: Should Be Yours
Review: I'm picky about my horror/thrillers. Monsters and fantasy are fun, but realistic stories are what really scare me. Mine is a very plausible, and therefore very frightening tale of a wacko who steals an infant from a hospital shortly after its birth, then runs across the country with it and the baby's distraught mother in hot pursuit. With so many children being abducted in the news lately, this one can hit home whether you've got kids or not. A real goosebump-raiser, page-burner, great read of a book.

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Summary: A BRILLIANT, TWISTING, SCAREY STORY
Review: If you liked Dean Koontz's INTENSITY, you'll love this book which contains many of the same elements including a calculating psychotic killer, and a victim who struggles against insurmountable obstacles .... in this case to rescue her baby from a madwoman. I can't recommend this book highly enough. It is one of the best in this genre, and the characters are drawn superbly. It's a real page turner. I've always judged a thriller by its ability to surprise me at every next page, and this one wins hands down. If I can't guess what's going to happen next, I consider myself entertained. If you enjoy suspense thrillers, you'll love this one.

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Summary: Mary Terror is loose, and she wants your baby for her own
Review: Incredibly fast-paced thriller that will leave you turning the pages all night long. McCammon is an awesome author, usually tending more towards the traditional monsters, vampires, dead things, ghostly apparitions, and downright evil incarnations; but in `Mine', he has taken on the human monster and painted her with such ferocity that you are left wishing for something fanged and green under your bed.

Mary Terrell is an overweight and aging hippie, unstable and unable to let go of her past. Not the gentle past of flowers and peace and love, but of her persona as Mary Terror, member of the radical and violent Storm Front Brigade led by her old lover, Jack Gardiner, once known as Lord Jack.

Lost in the past and still dropping acid, Mary's last shred of sanity snaps when she kidnaps a baby from the hospital to take to Lord Jack, to replace the baby that was killed twenty years ago when the Storm Front was captured and disbanded.

The baby Mary kidnaps is tiny David Clayborne, newborn to Laura and Doug Clayborne. Just before her delivery, Laura discovers Doug is having an affair, ripping apart her perfect life of happily-ever-after in the suburbs with a BMW.

Laura is beyond desperate when David is discovered missing, and spurred into taking action on her own when the police drag their feet and Doug responds with inept mannerisms and hollow faith in the police.

With only her journalist's background to rely on, Laura leaves the hospital to track down Mary Terror, still weakened from childbirth but determined to get her baby back before Mary inadvertently kills him.

What we are left with is a fingernail-biting chase across three thousand miles, with close calls and near misses and horrific anxiety at every turn. `Mine' literally took my breath away, it was so gripping and tense, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

WARNING!! First chapter spoiler for the weak of heart. There is a horrifying scene in the first chapter portraying Mary's sickness, in which she tortures a baby. Relax, it's really a doll, but I almost threw the book down because of it. Keep going, the book is well worth the read.


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Summary: Horrifying
Review: It has been a very long time since I have last read a story so tense and horrifying as this one. It left me extremely uncomfortable, and this, for two reasons. One for being extremely well-written like all his former novels have been, and, because the relentless horror just doesn't let up..it never flags down. One of the best reads I have had in a long time. Well done Mr. McCammon!

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Summary: Awesome book!
Review: It kept me spellbound from beginning to end. I barely got any sleep until I was finished because it's so hard to put down. A terrifying portrayal of one woman's descent into madness and another woman's descent into a living nightmare.

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Summary: Great read, excellent mystery.
Review: Mary Terror is not a character that I will soon forget. Psychological thriller all the way!