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Summary: page turner
Review: This book was impossible to put down. John Corey is my type of guy! I loved Plum Island and you will love this one too. I cannot understand those people who did not love this book. What does it take to please you anyway?
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Summary: A must read for everyone -- 6 stars
Review: This is my second Nelson Demille novel, Plum Island being the first. Plum Island was one (if not THE) best books I have ever read. The Lion's Game made me a true believer in Demille. He is now my favorite author by far. Lion's Game grabs your attention on the first page, and like with Plum Island, the only thing that keeps you from ripping through the pages, is occasoinally having to stop and laugh out loud at one of John Corey's sarcastic lines. This is truly a must read. It has it all. Keep 'em coming Mr. Demille, my top shelf is waiting the next masterpiece
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Summary: So much better than Plum Island
Review: DeMille has redeemed himself -- in my estimation, anyway -- from the ridiculous plot and gigolo mentality that was so pervasive in Plum Island. I agree with other reviewers that his newest offering is a bit wordy and that the pieces of the puzzle should have been put together MUCH sooner by someone of John Corey's intelligence and experience, but I suppose I can overlook all that because Corey's brain was back in his head and not in his jeans. I liked Kate Mayfield, too...she's a perfect match for Corey...she's just as brassy and can go wise crack for wise crack with him. Their romance seemed perfectly plausible to me. As for some reviewers dislike for the ending: I knew the lion was going to escape...how else could there be a sequel...? Anyway, I'm glad DeMille's back at the top of his game and I loved the story...that eerie landing of the 747 and the deathly discovery nailed me to the chair. Enjoy!
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Summary: A Terrorist Tours America
Review: Nelson DeMille has a unique talent. He can write a thriller that is very serious, and also very funny. Sure Carl Hiaasen can also write a sort of comic thriller, but it usually turns out to be very silly. Mr. DeMille brings back detective John Corey of Plum Island fame - if you didn't like Corey's attitude in Plum Island, you won't find him any more endearing here. John really has both attitude, and an unrelenting sense of humor that usually tends to alienate him from the stuffier FBI and CIA types that surround him. John Corey provides some of the fun, and surprisingly the rest of the chuckles come from a Libyan terrorist who tours the U.S. killing off a select group of people that have offended his country in general, and him in particular. This gun toting, demented version of Charles Kuralt drives and flies around America trying to understand the culture as he goes. Driving across the state line into Georgia he sees a sign that says, "Welcome to Georgia, The Peach State." He is much befuddled by a state that seems to want to identify with a fruit. And on he goes meeting with a variety of our citizens -usually briefly - and marveling more and more at the strangeness of American ways. Teen-age girls that zoom by in a convertible and wave to him are obviously, in his Mid-Eastern way of thinking, ladies of the evening. Charter pilots who cannot stop babbling in the most awful way also torment him. Indeed, although generally deploring his unkind way of dealing with people, we find ourselves hoping that he will fire several rounds into each pilot shortly after landing. What happens when John Corey and our Libyan finally have a telephone conversation? Corey cracks jokes of course, and Mr. Terrorist thinks he's quite funny. I think that you will be amused also. At almost 700 pages this is a nice, long, entertaining read.
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Summary: Entertaining But Certainly Not TheGold Coast or Charm School
Review: The Gold Coast made me laugh out loud, The Charm School gripped my interest, Plum Island and The General's Daughter were fun reads but after an engrossing start this book ended as a disappointment. As in The Charm School, DeMille forces the reader to reflect on the perceptions of American culture from the outside. I found the characters amusing but at times the text was too long. The ending seemed to focus more on the set up for a sequel than the book at hand. Nevertheless, if you enjoy DeMille's sense of humor as much as I do, go for it. Keep in mind that this book does not live up to the ones that preceded it.
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Summary: BORING
Review: Read The Gold Coast or Charm School but whatever you do, don't read this book. This book is boring and long, not a good combination. Demille is a great writer but his work is getting worse. He needs to read The Gold Coast again and figure out how he did it.
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Summary: Not up to DeMille standards
Review: DeMille has written many fine suspensful novels, including Charm School, Cathedral and others. The Lions Game is one similar chapter after another that if all lumped together would produce a giant Cookie. It is far from being his best book.
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Summary: Where's the ending?
Review: I enjoyed The Lion's Game until the final chapter (or lack of afinal chapter!). Demille must be thinking sequel. I expected more fromhim.
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Summary: Wordy
Review: The first 40 pages were facinating. It was all down hill from thereon. Too long, too wordy and too predictable. Don't waste your time.
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Summary: Comments on The Lion's Game
Review: I was disappointed with The Lion's Game because although witty in places, it isn't up to Plum Island -- one of my favorite books.
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