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Summary: Absolute drivel
Review: The worst book I have paid for and read in a long time.The storyline is weak, the plot unbelievable and the characters could be drawn better by a high school student. It gets a big THUMBS DOWN from me.
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Summary: GARBAGE
Review: I PREVIOUSLY READ ONE BOOK BY PATTERSON (ALONG CAME A SPIDER) AND IT WAS A FAIR BOOK, SO I TRIED ANOTHER. UNFORTUNATELY IT WAS BLACK FRIDAY. PURE UNADULTERATED GARBAGE. HORRIBLE BOOK.
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Summary: WHY?????
Review: Why would an until now good author re-edit, re-title and the re-release a 'not to good to begin with' book?? For faithful fans that will buy whatever he writes, this was a slap in the face. I thought I was getting a new Patterson novel, boy was I wrong. I will think twice before buying anything with Pattersons name again.
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Summary: Out of date, not so interesting, not credible
Review: This book was pretty bad. It might have been decent when it came out, but it is hopelessly out of date. The situations seem either hackneyed or just plain unbelievable. The financial markets have changed so much since this book was written that much of it sounds unintentionally silly. Also the characters seem like stock characters - uninteresting - a policeman - who is Irish (shock!) and drinks too much (even bigger shock!) - how stereotypical can this book get? I saw the film of Kiss the Girls and I was expecting much more. I hope his later books are better and he was just learning the ropes here, but I won't pay good money to find out after this clunker!
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Summary: Plain bad
Review: Beware. This is not a new novel; it's a retread from a poorly writtennovel from the 1980s. I can excuse the author from recycling his old,poorly written novels to capitalize on his recent fame, but at least do some editing and rewriting to bring the novel up to the current times. The gist of the story is: a group of ex-soldiers blow up Wall Street, run off with a couple of billion of stock certificates, and try to destabilize the US economy. Well, where do we start. First, a company like Citigroup alone is worth over $200 BILLION. I doubt that running off with a couple of billion in stock certificates would destabilize the US economy. And stock certificates? Apparently, the author hasn't realized that we're in the computer and information era. Oh, by the way, the characters are boring and the plot (probably the most critical element in a thriller) is inane. The logical jump the main protagonist takes to make the connection between the attack on Wall Street to these group of ex-soldiers is just ridiculous. I reread the key chapter in which this logical connection between the attack and the ex-soliders is made three times to try to figure out whether I had missed something. Nope. Essentially, the case is broke open by a ridiculous plot device.... I paid good money for this lousy book and I want my back.
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Summary: Unsuccessful Departure!
Review: This departure from Patterson's normal crime stories was far from his best work. Rather than grabbing our attention with one of his unforgetable serial killers he presents us with rather forgetable characters in a disjointed story.
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Summary: A good time filler.
Review: I read this book and thought it was new like most people who bought it did, and to tell you the truth, I didn't care that it was old because it had a great plot. Now, I'm not sure that I got the plot completely, but I got enough of it to understand it for the most part. Patterson is a great writer in a sea of great writers and that's all I've got to say.
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Summary: GREAT RERELEASE
Review: This was a great read of "classic" James Patterson. Originally released as "Black Market", Patterson's main character Arch Carroll might be eerilly reminiscient of the later Alex Cross, but if you ignore that than the book gets a whole lot easier to get through. The dating on the book is evident throughout. Not only in the ages of the characters, but the dates and pop culture references. Star Wars enthusiasts will guffaw at the line about "Revenge of the Jedi", which was the original title of Episode Six. A great book with enough of Patterson's patented twists and turns near the end to keep you turning those pages.
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Summary: Pure junk
Review: This was the first (and last) book I read by this author. I could hardly finish this book. It is boring and primitive.
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Summary: Why I feel ripped off by this book
Review: OK, let's list the reasons that I feel ripped off by both the author and Amazon.com with this book. 1. I bought this book from Amazon.com because I didn't recognize the title and, I assumed, (stupid me) from the copyright date (April 2000) that this was a new title. This book was originally published as Black Market in 1986 and later in 1994. Of course I couldn't tell that from the Amazon.com reviews. 2. The book just wasn't that good. It was in no way up to Patterson's usual standard. So, why does the author change the name and copyright date? Hard to tell but it seems to me it is to get us a ploy to buy a poorly written book. The fact that I already own this book makes buying this book under the new title doubly irritating. I won't buy another Patterson novel.
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