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Summary: Better than the last one - not quite right again
Review: I think people are being a little hard on Mr. Patterson's new book. This was a very fast read, which I liked - but it did lack some of the twist and turns. I think it was a good book that I have and will recommend. I think some people have come to expect a bit more from Mr. Patterson every time he picks up a pen. They can't all be "the best" book he has ever written. I am still a fan and I still love Alex, Nana, and Sampson and I am developing a like for Jam as well. The personal side of his novels is what keeps me coming back. This book does deliver that. I do miss the days of "Cat and Mouse" but this book was not at all bad. I think some people need to understand that authors are still normal people who are trying to make a living and it is not always easy to come up with the plots when this is your 23rd book. I will continue to read about my friends the Cross's who I have sent many years with so far.
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Summary: I don't think it's the mice that are blind
Review: Well, what can I say...This book came out 2 days before my birthday and I had to stop myself from buying it as I knew someone had got it for me as a prezzie. I am a HUGE Alex Cross fan and am always recommending the Alex Cross series to people.I read the book and lost interest pretty much straight away, the only thing that kept me going was that something good might happen at the end. I can see what James Patterson was tying to do with the short chapters, but you can't write a series of books and then change the format, style and talent of the last one and expect to get away with it. I described this book to my partner as 'nothing special, I don't think James Patterson did either as I have an idea he had to rush off somewhere before he finished it and just chucked words at his PC' Also, the proof reading was pitiful, I don't claim to be the best speller in the world and often make mistakes, but even I noticed some obvious mistakes.
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Summary: Why the Large Print?
Review: I don't understand. Why the large print? Isn't it supposed to be an advanced adult book? I mean, even me, an 11 year old skimmed through and read it. The chapters are only like, 2-4 pages long. When I saw the advertisement on TV, it looked suspensful, thrilling, and reminded me of Law & Order: SVU or Criminal Intent. I guess not. But it's not a total waste. I really don't know how to specifically explain this book.
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Summary: Save your money
Review: If you must read all the Alex Cross books (like me), wait for the paperback, borrow from a friend, or go to the library. This novel is horrible! People will buy any book with Patterson's name on it so he is going for the bucks.
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Summary: A great rainy day read!
Review: Was it great literature - no. But who expected it to be? This was a good story, told well and fast, with some fairly exciting twists and turns along the way. I read it in one long, rainy day and enjoyed every minute. I have read some of Patterson's that read fast and fun like this one ("When the Wind Blows" and "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas") and some that I couldn't get past the third chapter ("Beach House" and "Jack and Jill"). If you don't take it too seriously, this is a great companion for a day of cocooning.
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Summary: A little character, please.
Review: One or two Patterson novels and you have Patterson's (or whoever really did write this stuff) universe of characters. If this is your first Patterson book, it's not bad. If it's your third, you will know most of it before your crack the cover. If it's your fifth, you will sleep through the last half.
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Summary: Time Line Ruins Book For Me
Review: Can anyone get by the time line in this Book. A Sgt. That Sampson served with in Vietnam is on death row. But wait. Sampson and Alex Cross are in their "early 40s" according to the chapter with the softball game. The book is set in at least 2002, as Sept 11 is mentioned. So if we stretch "early 40s" to be 45, then Alex and Sampson are born in 1957, U.S. pulls out of Vietnam in early 1973 when Sampson and Alex are 16 years old, too young to legitimately sign up for the US Army (Which Sampson points out that Nana helped him do).
If you're going to write a formulaic "Bad US Military people prey on innocents" book, at least respect my abiltity to add and subtract.
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Summary: Four Blind Mice
Review: I enjoy reading Patterson's writings and I very much this novel also.
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Summary: What a waste!
Review: James Patterson phoned in "Four Blind Mice"---if, in fact, he actually bothered to write any of this uninspired, preposterous, formulaic, cookie-cutter thriller. The villains in this Alex Cross novel are unrealistic cartoonish parodies---the plot predictable, simplistic, unbelievable and all too pat. The love interest for Dr. Cross a painfully embarrassing distraction that fails to move the plot along and is nearly unreadable. Loose ends abounded. It is hard to believe this is the same author who gave us such absorbing, compelling and rousing fiction as: "The Midnight Club," "Black Market", "Pop Goes the Weasel", "Cat and Mouse" and the Edgar winning "Thomas Berryman Number." On the plus side, John Sampson is a spectacular supporting character. And, Mr. Patterson's short chapter, fast-paced writing style makes for a fast read. Too many trees died for this book.
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Summary: 1 star for a quick read...
Review: That it can be read in a few hours is the best thing I can say about this book. Reads more like a rough draft or outline than a complete novel. Cardboard characters, cursory plot development and unimaginative prose are among the flaws. A total waste of an afternoon.
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