Apaches

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Summary: A complete waste of time, money, and paper...
Review: Some people have tried to defend the plausability of the evil drug lords' plan to use dead babies to smuggle cocaine from Arizona to New York -- we are not talking international boundaries here. My question... why not simply drive? What drug lord would waste the plane fare, and risk airline security when for the price of a few gallons of unleaded you could carry kilos of coke in the back of your car? Realistic or believable can not be descriptions used for this book.

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Summary: comic book without the pictures......
Review: A comic book without the pictures.....strains credibility at every turn, with glaring gaps that the "logic police" would have a field day with....tremendous disappointment after the strength of Sleepers.

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Summary: Huge Disappointment
Review: wow, was this bad, silly storyline, vacant characters. Mr Carcaterra has lost the respect he earned after sleepers. Clearly cashing in without even trying, well i was fooled once but it wont happen again, if he writes again I will skip it and read sleeepers

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Summary: This was "Superfriends Meet the Evil "White Snow" Queen!"
Review: I cringed when I read this, but i had a good time doing so. In a way, it was like reading a movie, but so many Mind Candy books become one(I could not help trying to cast all characters in my mind, for you KNOW this is going to be a film some day). I did not like how the author tries to cover each main character's history in their own big prologue chapters, while you wait for wait for action,kidnapping tracking and drug lord chase to finally start--that was somewhat slow. However, the plot, to me, was pretty original. Gruesome and cruel, but original (which can be rare). Like I said, it's mind candy, but it IS yummy! People wich sesitive, conservative stomaches, however, might hate this. But all who loved Along Came a Spider by Patterson will love it!

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Summary: READ BETTER READ LOTS WORSE
Review: I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE ONE'S AND TWO'S. I'VE READ BETTER AND WORSE. BUT SOME OF YOU PEOPLE HAVE ABSOLUTLEY "NO" IMAGINATION. THIS IS A FICTIONAL BOOK SO GET WITH THE PROGRAM AND TREAT IT AS JUST THAT.

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Summary: The author of SLEEPERS wrote this !?!?!?!?!!!
Review: Two years ago Lorenzo Carcaterra published one of the toughest, most vivid and original, and intense books of the '90s. SLEEPERS was the center of much controversy over whether it was fact (as the author insists) or fiction. All of this was irrelevant to those who read the book. Fact or fiction, it was stunning in its staying power and effectiveness. I continued to think about it long after I finished it. However, Carcaterra now delivers one of the most putrid, cliche-ridden novels of recent years. How cliche is it? Lets begin with two of the characters: Boomer: the leader of the self-styled 'Apaches', we are reminded over and over again that Boomer is an action-cop. He lives for the thrill. This alone does not make him a cliche, but the his disdain for authority, back-up, and bulletproof vests mark him as the most ubiquitous cliche of the action genre: THE MAVERICK COP WHO MAKES HIS OWN RULES. Then there is Mrs. Columbo: a wife, mother, and cop. Her husband wants her at home, of course. The action is uninteresting. We are never in doubt as to who is going to win. Furthermore, Carcaterra insists upon reminding us over and over and over again how none of the Apaches is happy without being a cop. In fact, he states this fact at least three times per chapter. A complete waste of time.

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Summary: "So-called critics" need to relax, Apaches was good.
Review: Apaches wasn't as good as SLEEPERS but I still enjoyed it as did some of my friends. Most of you "so-called" critics thought it was bad and unrealistic but it still captured my attention. If you want to talk bad authors look at R.L.Stine. His first novel was about a sex crazed man who was being posessed by little bad luck demons. Apaches might not seem realistic but far worse things happen than little girls getting their fingers chopped off. Anything is possible these days. So for all of the people who gave it a bad review, you write a novel and see what people think of it. Give the author a break!

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Summary: A very good read and enjoyed it
Review: This is a natural born writer with concised, smooth, logical writing. If other readers felt disgusted of the cocaine-stuffed dead baby, it only showed the writer's vivid paintbrush in writing. The first part is just like a fast-delivered introduction of several main characters who were just born cops but forced into retirement yet still die-hard(just like the movie, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, each of the seven roles got some specialties to get the job done). The second part of this book is the STORY and, for me, in order to have the nose candy safely delivered, drug dealers would try any innovative transportation means, anything is possible. The unjustifiable boiling criticism from some readers by just giving this book a lowest 1 or 2 rating was not fair at all.

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Summary: Unbelievable, silly and disgusting
Review: Unless you find unintentionally funny novels and movies fun for their own sake, skip this one. While the author tries to give you realistic cop talk to make for a gritty true-to-life feel, theplot is just so silly that you'll spend most of your time snorting at the development. The idea that a band of vigilante ex-cops can shut down a black widow's drug ring (using dead babies as mules, no less) by just being connected to their old buddies in the cop world is absurd, and badly done to boot. Dead babies indeed

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Summary: Well...
Review: This novel is starts off very well. In Part One there is a lot of pure cop activity that makes you just burst out laughing.

And then there is Part Two...

The middle of this book is where it gets a bit too crazy. From chopping off fingers of a twelve year old girl to stuffing babies with cocaine, Lorenzo Carcaterra tells all.

When Part Three came along, things were going in so many different places that I barely cared enough about how it was going to end, and when it did, I was not satisfied.

Reguardless, this is an overall great book. It isn't as good as SLEEPERS (nothing can EVER be as good as SLEEPERS) but it is certaintly worth your time and money.