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Summary: it was fun...but...
Review: The story was well crafted. Corey is hysterical. Only a couple of complaints. Law enforcement spent too much time in conferences and those meetings were too frequent. Khalid's narrative fades away at the ranch, why? It would have been great if he had stayed in the story until he the end. Readers should have been privy to his mindset at the finale! I hope that the sequel picks up right where GAME leaves off!
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Summary: A Great Read from a Great Author
Review: This was a great book. It was in my opinion even better than Plum Island. I am a big fan of Demille and have read all his works. My favorites are Gold Coast, Cathedral, And Word of Honor. However, this book was great. I even enjoyed the references made to Demilles other books in this one: Gold Coast, General's Daughter, and the Charm School were the ones I noticed. The book was well written, exciting, and hard to put down. My only complaint was the ending. I don't like the obvious lets set up for the sequal type ending. It ended too much like a Patterson work. However, despite the incomplete ending, this was a great work of fiction. A great read.
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Summary: I Hate Kate Mayfield
Review: I hate Kate Mayfield. I was sooooo excited when I heard that there would be a sequel to Plum Island (one of my favorite books). I liked John Corey'snd Beth Penrose's and I thought there would be some interaction between the two in this book. I won't ruin the ending, but I do think that the ending was wrong for the great characters he developed in Plum Island, where the ending brought everything together quite nicely. This time around, the ending seemed rushed and just wrong for Mr. Corey. Anyway, I did like the back and forth between Khalil's parts and John Corey's parts. And I laughed when Demille refered to some of his other works. But on the whole, it The Lion's Game does not live up to the standards of Plum Island (Gold Coast aside).
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Summary: The Lion's Game
Review: Nelson DeMille clearly displays in this book the concept that we fear what we don't understand, especially religion and culture's quest for God. All around the world, the Khalils and the Coreys, et al., have been loving and worshipping God, while hating and murdering each other. For those who weren't satisfied with the ending, maybe the fact that both Asad Khalil and John Corey were still alive on the last page was a small spark of hope for the future... from an author who's life experiences prompt him to desire a world where the Lion and the Lamb sleep peacefully together. END
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Summary: Good But Eventually Disappointing
Review: I have been an avid reader of DeMille's books since back when By the Rivers of Babylon first came out, but I must say that his style is getting a tad, er, shopworn -- Hey Nelson, it's time to get out there and develop some new characters. The two protagonists in his books are inevitably the wisecracking, irreverent, non-PC male and the eyes-rolling, oh-brother female, so it should come as no surprise that they're back in all of their tiresome familiarity. As for the substance of the book, The Lion's Game is quite brilliant for about the first 300 pages. It blends suspense and detail very well and is a real page-turner. But by the second half of the book, it bogs downs terribly, getting away from the action and into one boring situation after another. It limps along until its conclusion, which is by far the most uninspiring and pointless ending that DeMille has come up with yet. Another thing that I found annoying about this book is all of DeMille's cutesy little references to his other books. I think he is really starting to believe that he is the next Hemingway or something.
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Summary: worth reading, but not his best!
Review: As a stranded traveler on the east coast during the blizzard of 00', I was glad that I had this book to keep me company. I am a huge DeMille fan and love his wit and suspense. This book was a page turner and fun to read, but predictable and I felt not fully developed. I found the middle section of the book overly detailed about information that did not pertain to the plot and would have rather read more dialogue between the main characters. I was also a bit disappointed by the ending. I say all of this as a critical DeMille reader, as I did not think that it was as good as the Gold Coast or the Charm School. All of this being said, it is certainly an entertaining book and enjoyable to read.
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Summary: The Magnificent Mr. Corey is back in a real page-turner!
Review: John Corey is the kind of stubborn, outspoken, politically incorrect, but well meaning man that perhaps your father or great grandfather was. As the saying goes "They don't make em like that anymore" Back as part of New York's Anti-Terrorist Task Force, surrounded by FBI and CIA agents, he finds himself in the uncomfortable situation of being forced to behave with uncharacteristic sensitivity towards his co-workers (Although sometimes he slips up). Fortunately we get to experience what he is really thinking. His ongoing dialog with himself is absolutely hysterical! Mr. Demille also does a great job of putting you into the mindset of Asad Khalil(The bad guy). He outlines his motivations very clearly while keeping Asad at a distance by never allowing him to speak to us in the first person. This was a great action-packed page turner that I would recommend to anyone! *Note I read and very much enjoyed "The Charm School" "Spencerville", "The General's Daughter" "Cathedral", and "Plum Island" "The Gold Coast" was another matter. It was great while it lasted but, but I only got about 3/4 through it before setting it down and never picking it up again. I'm still not certain why because the book was good? . If "The Gold Coast" is the only Novel you've ever read by Nelson Demille, and you had a similar experience give it another try. The "Lion's Game" is a great novel, and John Corey will get and keep your attention.
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Summary: Suprised
Review: Couldn't put the book down. Loved the fact that he brought back Corey from Plum Island. Suprised by the ending a little bit, obviously a sequel is on it's way. I will definately buy the sequel though, so a guess Demille does it to me again. It was very enjoyable throughout
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Summary: Not Demille's best.
Review: I've read most of Demille's novels and have enjoyed them all, including Plum Island. The Lion's Game is a hot and cold kind of novel. The story revolves around John Corey, the sarcastic, witty, in-your-face, retired NYPD detective, and Kate, the beautiful, smart, can give as good as she gets, FBI agent, and their nemesis, Asad Khalil, the "lion" like Libyan terrorist. The chapters alternate between the "lion's" game and the FBI's trying to find the "lion". The chapters on Asad are the one's that really make the novel interesting and keeps it moving. The chapters on John and Kate seem to be there to showcase John's wit and sarcasm and then, boom, in a paragraph, he comes up with a clue. Then the novel moves on. More wit and sarcasm, and then, boom, another clue. This novel could actually be cut in half. In other words, it could have used some heavy editing. The story, itself, is a good one. It is also very timely. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy Corey's wit. It was just too much. And, the ending was far too pat. It's obvious this was written with a sequel in mind. With its heft, wait for the paperback and read it on the beach.
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Summary: Great--until the last 100 pages
Review: Really enjoyed it until the end, where it started to remind me of a movie trying to set itself up for a sequel. That said, still a good read.
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