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Summary: Isle of the Dogs
Review: I am a big Patricia Cornwell fan, but I was very dissapointed with this book! I don't know what she was trying for, but she definitely missed! This is one of the worst books that I have ever tried to read. I am ready to give up!
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Summary: Isle of Dogs
Review: I have always enjoyed Patricia Cornwell's books but couldn't get past one third of this one. So boring. The govener and his wife were a real drag. So was the absent plot-----couldn't even finish it. Sorry Patricia. I was really getting tired of the lesbian ungrateful niece any way.
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Summary: Isle of Dogs
Review: If I had a choice, I would rate Isle of Dogs -5 stars! This was Cornwell's worst books ever; pure commercial pap. She should stick to what she does best, serious forensic thrillers, rather than venture into so-called comic relief. The woman has absolutely no sense of humor, and her attempts come off as amateurish and inane. Forget the ridiculous unfocused plot, and the dialog was generally absurd. And, worse, she made that policewoman sound like an idiot; what happened to her "strong intelligent women" stance??? Now, don't get me wrong, I love Cornwell's Scarpetta books, but this piece of fluff (Isle of Dogs) is going straight into the trash. I wouldn't deign to pass it on to a friend, as I do with all my other good reads. I'm furious that I paid good money for this book.
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Summary: Isle of Dogs
Review: If you are looking for a page turner this is not it! I slogged through this book wondering the whole time why Patricia Cornwell decided to publish such tripe. I was very disappointed in the characters, who all seemed phony, and the plot which was ridiculous! It has made me very skeptical of ever buying another book authored by her.
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Summary: GodAwful
Review: I have given her three chances now and this was "strike 3" - it was the worst she has ever written and that last one was BAD!!! If she can't do any more Scarpetta, she needs to retire. I am now a Patterson fan, he hasn't disappointed me yet.
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Summary: Isle of Dogs
Review: Worst book I've read in years!... I always finish a book, normally in two or three flights. This masterpiece took five roundtrips and never had a redeeming moment. How could a book still rated number ten be so BAD. I'll try another Cornwell book later, but it'll come out of the library, no more with my money.
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Summary: Calling this book a dog
Review: - would be an insult to dogs! Where is the Patricia Cornwell we know and mostly love? While I tired a little of Kay Scarpetta's whining, I loved the suspense and realistic depth of her other novels. The characters in Isle of Dogs are one-dimensional caricatures. The humor is banal, and the suspense is nil. A disappointment.
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Summary: The worst book I ever read
Review: This is one of the worst books I've ever read! It is a total waste of the paper it is printed on. I gave it one star only because the rating system wouldn't let me give it 0 stars.
I love the early books by Patricia Cornwell, but I was extremely disappointed with this book. The characters are flat and ridiculous. The plot was boring and the writing was definitely not up to her usual standards.
Save your money and buy something worth reading!
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Summary: Not a pleasant experience...
Review: I must say that I've enjoyed Patricia Cornwell's previous books, so I was looking forward to this (particularly due to the comparisons to Carl Hiaasen). It was an incredible disappointment - it was the first book in recent memory that I finally had to give up on halfway through. And the only book in my life that I have ever seriously considered trying to return for my money back. The storyline was incomprehensible (even after 200 pages), none of the characters were likable or even interesting. Even the 'protagonist' Andy was an annoying 'too good to be true' know-it-all. I suggest you save your money and purchase Ms. Cornwell's earlier works or try Carl Hiaasen if you're up for some dark comedy.
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Summary: Where Wambaugh should have feared to tread
Review: Remember all those great Joseph Wambaugh cop stories, and then all of a sudden he decided to do humor? About five such books and now you never notice when a new Joe Wambaugh comes out. That's what happens when an author gets tired of same old/ same old and decides to hang a left turn. When an author decides that going for "character-driven" is an evolutionary step, but forgets that the book should still be story-driven. Trooper Andy Brazil and his bosslady Judy Hammer get major supporting roles here, the intrepid coroner Kay Scarpetta gets a walk-on, but the major players here are a back-east outlaw gang who consider themselves modern day pirates but instead bring more to mind Breslin's "The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight" (or "Johnny Dangerously's" crew), as well as the funny-talking residents of an offshore Virginia island who remind me of characters in Stephen King's "Rose Madder". Seems they hear of a new State Police speeding crackdown with the acronym VASCAR. They mistake that for NASCAR, decide that NASCAR plans to take over their island for a race, and kidnap their part-time dentist in protest. Every few chapters, one State cop with the pen name "Trooper Truth" releases an essay that's half history lesson and half Dave Barry. And at the moment, I'm dreading the history of modern fiction repeating itself. Are we about to lose another great crime storyteller to a bid for "serious" author recognition? I sincerely hope not. I've seen too many writers grow weary of being "only" a crime writer, "only" a horror writer, "only" a sci-fi writer, go for "bigger things"--and wind up dumping their original readerbase. The ones who made them what they were up to that point, you know? Bing-bing...binggggg! The gunshot and ricochet you hear is Patricia Cornwell shooting herself in the foot. We'll know she either missed or dug the bullet out when the next one's about Doc Scarpetta and her loudmouth sidekick Marino.
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