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Summary: An Overhand Smash of a Novel
Review: Harlan Coben is a genius in the mystery literary world. This book reads faster than a Pete Sampras serve. With a blistering-paced plot and the funniest dialogue known to the mystery world, DROP SHOT is nothing but pure magic. This book is a must read. I can't wait to read the rest of the Myron Bolitar mystery series. DROP SHOT will not dissappoint.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Harlan Coben's books are always good. They keep you guessing till the very end. Myron Bolitar is a sports agent who will do anything to help his client even if it is not in their contract. In this book Myron helps his Tennis star Duanne Richardson. Duanne is a suspect in the murder of Valerie Simpson. Myron goes and investigates the murder of Valerie and what he finds he does not like. This book has humour, suspense, mystery and everything in it to make a great book. I liked this book even though I am 12. I would not recommend it for children though it has things that could be considered questionable.
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Summary: Drop Shot
Review: I just finished this book, and enjoyed it, but it was not up the Harlan's usually high standards. I agree with another review who said that there were places in the book that could have been "cut & pasted" from some of Harlan's other books. Again, the conversational writing is tremendous, and most of all "true to life". The characters seem to come to life and do in fact have their individual personalities. Not his best, but worth reading.
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Summary: Not as good as Deal Breaker, but still great!
Review: I read this book in one day, and it was great. But at this point I expect as much from Harlan Coben. Drop Shot was not as excellent as Deal Breaker, and I had the ending figured out before Myron. But none the less it is still an exciting, suspensful, and funny novel. I recommend it. And I have already picked up Myron's next adventure, the Edgar award winning Fade Away. I can't wait to get started.
If you pick up this book, which you should, enjoy! :)
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Summary: Myron BoliStar
Review: I will agree with the review that said that the ending was disappointing, in that it was predictable. However, I still feel it was a good book. I really enjoy the characters. They remind me a lot of Robert Crais's Elvis Cole and Joe Pike and that isn't a bad thing. I would recommend this book but for someone that is going to read only one Harlan Coben book you should still go with Fade Away. That one and Dealbreaker were definitely sure things.
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Summary: Not his best but still an entertaining read
Review: In many ways, this is a solid effort. Myron is still a funny guy from New Jersey and the sports angle is still a refreshing change from the typical cast of characters in mysteries. The sport of the book is tennis and the insights into the pressure and commercialization of the sport were educational.So why not five stars? This may be a little picky but unlike some of his other books, the end of this book was something I figured out at least one hundred pages out. Some of the other reviewers complain of his books being "formula." Well, one of the formula elements of this series is the complete surprise ending. I missed it in this book. Bottom line: Not a must read but a pleasant evening, particularly if you like Myron's humor or tennis.
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Summary: Read a Harlan Coben - any one
Review: Some months back, I went to a bookshop in New Delhi & found one copy of each of the Myron Bolitair series. I bought two titles as they seemed interesting. Two days later, having finished both, I went back & bought the entire lot & both the Non- Myron Bolitair books; which meant that I had cleaned out their Harlan Corben stock as they only had one copy each.
The bookshop owners then went & re-stocked many more copies of each title, It's difficult to suggest a specific Harlan Coben Book: I found them all tremendously enjoyable. Read any one & you will be hooked. It isn't necessary to read them in any order but I would recommend that start from the first as Myron's life will then unfold as lives should.... The crimes at the heart of each book can be read in any order.
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Summary: FROM THE 1996 EDGAR AWARD NOMINATED AUTHOR OF DEAL BREAKER
Review: The HOUSTON CHRONICLE writes, "[DROPSHOT] has enough twists and turns to keep you guessing to the end. The prose is lean, the story moves briskly, and the dialogue crackles. Like fellow wisecracking PIs Spenser and Elvis Cole, Myron Bolitar is great fun in the best `hard-boiled' tradition. His one liners and observations are consistently amusing and frequently laugh-out-loud funny."
MOSTLY MURDER adds, "YOU WILL LOVE THIS BOOK -- DROPSHOT backhands the competition." THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE said DROPSHOT had "a fast-paced plot, witty dialogue, more than a few surprises, and you'll-never-guess-it denouement."
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: The second book in the Myron Bolitar series Drop Shot might not be the greatest adventure for Myron in his sensational series but it is still a very good read. Myron is the sports manager for ex street kid Duane Richwood who is playing in the US Open and is expected to be the next biggest thing in male tennis. Valerie Simpson, the ex women's champion who had a breakdown is rumoured to be on the verge of a comeback. She makes an appointment with Myron but is gunned down at the US Open just before they are supposed to meet. Police suspect Duane has something to do with her murder and Myron feels a responsibility to solve her murder to both clear him and because Valerie would have been his client. When he discovers Valerie's ex boyfriend Alexander Cross (is Coben starting a friendly rivalry with James Patterson by killing of someone with a very similar name to Patterson's most popular crime solving character?) was also murdered he knows he has stumbled onto something big. Alexander Cross was the son of a US senator and the mafia also doesn't want Myron poking around into their business but we all know Myron, he can't resist. The Bolitar series are fast paced can't put down until the last page reads. Start with the original masterpiece Deal Breaker though as plots of former novels are given away in later ones if you read them out of order. Once you have read one you will have to read them all. Coben's independent novels Tell No One, Gone For Good and No Second Chance are also masterpieces. Buy them too.
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Summary: Don't Drop and Lose a Coben Book Before Reading It
Review: The second book in the Myron Bolitar series Drop Shot might not be the greatest adventure for Myron in his sensational series but it is still a very good read. Myron is the sports manager for ex street kid Duane Richwood who is playing in the US Open and is expected to be the next biggest thing in male tennis. Valerie Simpson, the ex women's champion who had a breakdown is rumoured to be on the verge of a comeback. She makes an appointment with Myron but is gunned down at the US Open just before they are supposed to meet. Police suspect Duane has something to do with her murder and Myron feels a responsibility to solve her murder to both clear him and because Valerie would have been his client. When he discovers Valerie's ex boyfriend Alexander Cross (is Coben starting a friendly rivalry with James Patterson by killing of someone with a very similar name to Patterson's most popular crime solving character?) was also murdered he knows he has stumbled onto something big. Alexander Cross was the son of a US senator and the mafia also doesn't want Myron poking around into their business but we all know Myron, he can't resist. The Bolitar series are fast paced can't put down until the last page reads. Start with the original masterpiece Deal Breaker though as plots of former novels are given away in later ones if you read them out of order. Once you have read one you will have to read them all. Coben's independent novels Tell No One, Gone For Good and No Second Chance are also masterpieces. Buy them too.
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