Guilty Pleasures

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Summary: Lawrence Sanders can do better I hope!!!
Review: Unfortunately, for me, I found this latest read of L. Sanders to be a complete departure from his usual intriguing writing abilities....I prefer the McNally series, and hope desparately he comes back...after 18 years of reading all of his releases, I have now invested in hard cover books....Guilty Pleasures, to me was slow and the ending was poor....after all with today's societal norms on incest I found it very hard to believe this man could get on a boat and sail away from one of life's horrific situations that many children and adults live with....The characters initially had some luster then they became boring and predictable as well...overall I was disappointed with this...After living in Florida from 1992 through 1995 I became very aware of the Palm Beach and Florida coast line lifestyles....Mr. Sanders, there are ions of volumes you could write about the folks down in Florida.....Thank you...Bring back McNally and hopefully he'll marry Consuela!!!

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Summary: Not one of his best
Review: Usually Sanders keeps you riveted, this was a book that left you hanging. The ending was really disappointing. You kept waiting for a plot that never happened

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Summary: For Sanders Fans this is one to miss
Review: Waiting anxiously for the new Sanders manuscript is a shared activity by many of his loyal readers. For the first time I would have to say this book wasn't worth the wait or the time spent reading. It reads like an amateur version of the real thing. Truly a let down.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: When I got to the last page, I said is this it? What a dumb ending!! Mr. Sander's deadly sins novels were extraordinary, and then his writing style changed so drastically with the McNally series. However, the reading was always enjoyable. Now, this GUILTY PLEASURE is another writing style. Not to my liking and I can no longer buy his books based on his name only.

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Summary: A big question mark that never goes away
Review: When I read this book, the first impression was this book was not written by the great Sanders. For years, I've remained one of the most loyal fan of Sanders, but when his cash-in books and some abslutely-not-his-creations gradually infiltrated under his great name, I've also become pretty devastated and estranged, but still tried everytime to get ahold of his new one first-handed. This one, a so pathetic make-belief novel by whosoever-Sanders-to-be, was indeed a last coffin nail to vaporize my depreciated loyalty to this old guy. The style, the writing, the.....whatever might be included were so un-Sanders from page 1, although I could live with some of the big-deal scenarios of incest that I could be more care less. The rich-girl-must-be-beautiful and the Great Gatsby prototypes in American bestseller culture are the worst garbage dumped on our poor readers/consumers. Why all the daughters from the rich families must be beautiful? Those rich buggers might be ugly merely married to beautiful women, but not necessary to just have one-sided gene of the mother and bear beautiful offsprings only. Bored-to-death lousy and plain story with a phony author's signature. I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!!

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Summary: This book was a complete disappointment.
Review: When I saw that the new Sanders book was available, I grabbed it off the shelf, thinking that I would have a great read. It was downhill from there. It was shallow, simplistic, and, although I kept expecting it to improve, it didn't. My first clue should have been that there weren't any accolades for this particular book among the many for Mr. Sanders' other books. Don't waste your time or money!!!