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Summary: A better film!
Review: This will probably make a great noir thriller with Nicole Kidman playing the sexy uninhibited protagonist. It just reeks of Hollywood pretense and promise and I'm sure Vin Deisel would be more than adequate as the "ultra butch" Mallory. As a sexy, seductive and dark thriller the novel is OK - the sex scenes ARE erotic, raunchy and compelling if not a little too het. Moore manages to place you in decadent Manhattan and her allusions to the seedier side of life in the big city are always astutely observed. This isn't one of the best psycho-sexual thrllers I've read but it certainly does a good job in portraying the "darker side" of human nature. You also need to pay attention to detail when reading because the author plants a few red herrings early on and it is only at the end when the threads come together and the true killer is revealed that you can make sense of the clues. A cleverly constructed novel which is grisly, gruesome and very dark. A novel that is certainly not for all tastes but if you love sexual honesty and have a fascination with the psycho-sexual mentality then you must definitely read this. I can't wait for the movie as I think Nicole will be terrific!
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Summary: pure sleaze
Review: The characters seemed so phony that I couldnt wait until they all bit the dust. After reading the haunting novel Collectors this book seemed liked pure trash. No atmosphere or character depth It stunk
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Summary: Sly, vacant , and dark exercise
Review: I expected this book to be grim from the outset. The dark sexuality did not bother me. What did bother me was how soul-less the book was. Franny, the main character, is caught in some malaise without any depth. The author, Susanna Moore, gives some hints to Franny's past with hardly any elaboration. From this superficial treatment of Franny's inner life and her past, the reader is to focus on Franny's present journey. This sly, seamy escapade is merely an exercise. You don't care about Franny, her detective boyfriend, her student, or even the rash of murders in their wake. The conclusion is violent and stupid.The author elicts no emotion for the characters and the story is not interesting enough to justify this failure on her part.
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Summary: Like the tag line says
Review: This book is a relatively involving thriller although i actually think the thriller aspect was written secondly to scenes of the narrator copping off with a 'tuff' New York detective. However this book was entertaining and a good read. The characters, although obliques, remain in the memory and yes it is quite sexy in places. The movie should be good so long as they don't lighten up the dark tone of the novel by having a happy ending perhaps with Malloy and Frannie running through a field of buttercups.
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Summary: dark, disturbing, riveting
Review: I read this book over two years ago and it still sticks with me. I liked the writing style, it sounded natural, especially the inner monologues, and it sucked me in immediately. Its much darker than I anticipated. One of those good books about bad stuff. Ellis Hoff author of Sand Pirates
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Summary: Ed Wood has (nearly) met his match.
Review: Can anyone write worse prose than John Grisham? Or craft more predictable plots? Or hold a more boringly conventional moral view? In the opening pages of "In the Cut" Susanna Moore demonstrates that she is clearly up to the challenge. But will she be able to sustain such staggering incompetence over the span of an entire 267 pages of large type? Yes! Yes! Yes! This is a writer so inept that she leaves the butter out of a Last Tango in Paris ripoff. And her story has so many dead red herrings that it could only climax with a character going off to fish in the polluted waters of the Hudson River. As for the moral? Yo! Listen up: Seven locks on your NYC apartment AREN'T ENOUGH. At times, the reader nearly enters the altered state induced by such anti-masterpieces as Plan 9 From Outer Space. But while Moore, like Wood, shows an utter lack of integrity in her art and only the haziest notion of the meaning of craft, there is no real sense of the loving, joyful freakishness that characterizes every word and frame of Wood's oeuvre. Still, readers will be happy to learn that this is one writer with no talent to burn.
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Summary: neither erotic or thrilling...just trash
Review: Having had to read this book for a university seminar I was obliged to finish it otherwise it would have hit the bin long before I reached the end. Moore seems to think that by piling cliche onto cliche and then hanging 'shocking' sex scenes onto an empty plot she can thrill the reader. But she can't. The erotic writing was FAR from erotic and I ended up laughing out loud at the corny situations the characters found themselves. It misses out on a real opportunity to explore the complex and real dangers that women face in an urban environment. Two-dimensional characters and a real sense of laziness about the plot-line combined to make an eminently forgetable experience.
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Summary: thriller? erotica? or else?
Review: The story is short and bad for an erotica thriller. There aren't enough thrills to really make it a good thriller, and there aren't enough sex to make it a good erotica either. I was hoping the story would get better as I read on, but I was wrong. What a waste of money.
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Summary: IS THERE A SEQUEL TO KNOW THE ENDING?!
Review: I read this book, since I have been hearing that my favorite actress Nicole Kidman is going to be starring in the film that is being made from this novel. The book's mystery part of whodunit was somewhat interesting. What i didnt like were all the un-called-for sex scenes. What i just hated with a passion was the ending. If Jane Campion and Nicole Kidman are going to make this into a film, I just hope they get a great screenwriter and a new ending to the film. Overall it was interesting an in unusual way reading this novel, told by a women's point ot view.
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Summary: an elegantly-written sexual thriller
Review: I read this fabulous novel in a day. It's refreshing to read about a female protagonist in a mystery novel who is neither hard-bitten nor given to crying jags, and the supporting characters are (mostly) as varied and interesting as those in any of our lives. I'm going to read it again in a week -- I was so caught up in the story that I didn't really try to figure out the "whodunit" aspect of the book -- and highly recommend it, though perhaps not to the faint of heart.
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