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Summary: Revolting
Review: There are alot of odd families in this world. Alot of odd families with secrets. However this book was disgusting. This book is just like those comic books, movies, or television shows that have extreme nudity and violence just so they can shock people. You can add this book to that list. I threw away this book after reading the first couple of chapters. Do not buy this book!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Positively the worst book I have ever read
Review: There is not one normal relationship in the whole book. I kept waiting for someone to realize that incest, homosexuality,etc. is wrong. I will never read another book by Lawrence Sanders.
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Summary: Waste of Time!
Review: This book has no plot, no character development, no mystery, no real ending... it's such a waste! I can't believe L. Sanders wrote this book. I'll think twice before reading the next one.
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Summary: A waste of time
Review: This book is a waste of time, trite, predictable and sorid. Shame on the author for throwing many of life's ugly aspects into one book. You can't help but think he had a contract for a book and simply looked for the easiest way to compile titilating issues; homosexuality, aids, incest, biracial relationships, infidelity, illness, back stabbing greed, etc. Nothing redeems this book.
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Summary: What a disappointment from one of my favorite authors
Review: This book was an insult to any Lawrence Sanders fan. Poor plot, terrible ending, cardboard characters...it ranks among the worst books I have ever read. I can't believe that the same auther who wrote the great McNally and Deadly Sin novels wrote this garbage.
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Summary: Disappointing.
Review: This book was dark, depressing, and boring. I couldn't believe it was a L. Sanders book. I kept reading only in the belief that it had to get better. It didn't.
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Summary: banal and disappointing
Review: This has to be one of the worst books I have ever read. I usually donate books that I have finished and enjoyed to the library. I'm embarrassed to give them this one. No plot, no character development. It seems Sanders is living on his reputation--too bad.
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Summary: Cheesy, flimsy, adolescent.... don't waste your time!
Review: This shallow story left me very disappointed. It is a lifeless effort exploring the depravity and perversions of the family members of a publishing dynasty and some other one-dimensional characters in "supporting roles." I couldn't find a plot and feel that the story is a prop for sex the same way escargot is used as a vehicle for butter and garlic. There was little mystery to it except why I bothered to listen to the end. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen. It was somewhat predictable and disjointed. Lackluster.
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Summary: SICK STORY
Review: This will be my last book of his. This book is sick, I could not even finish it!!!!
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Summary: A Sub-Par Swan Song
Review: To Sanders fans and casual readers, this novel is a major disappointment. Still, I must admit to some amusement at the intensity with which other reviewers here are attacking this weak effort. It should be noted that this novel was published just after Sanders' death, and it is possible that he intended to work on it more but was prevented from doing so by ill health. Alternately it's conceivable that his declining health may have kept him from tapping some of his usually delicious ideas and left him with a potboiler that rarely bubbles. The Sanders style is here, but muted. A final McNally novel is scheduled for this summer, so let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that this one is closer to Sanders' usual standard. As for all those folks who exclaim that they won't read another one --- well, this is the last one. Too bad he couldn't have departed on a more graceful note.
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