Isle of Dogs

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Summary: What?
Review: What a waste of time. I kept reading and hoping the book would get better. It did not. The only reason I would suggest reading the book is if she continues on this story line in another novel you will want to know what Hammer and Andy Brazil had been up to in the past.

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Summary: disappointed
Review: Her work is usually so much better, I had to force myself to finish the book. It jumped around too much,
Have read better

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Summary: Whoever stole P Cornwell's talent, please give it back
Review: Hey, I am a avid fan and have been for years. I own everything Patricia Cornwell has written and eagerly await her next offering always. Emagine my surprise when the totally terrible offering was presented and I spent good money on it!
All I can surmise is that someone has stolen her talent and I for one would like then to give it back!
Any reader or listener will be luck to even get to chapter 15 let alone have the patience to go beyond it and I certainlly hope that this is not the first Patricia Cornwell anyone picks up! If it is they will miss a lot of really good books.
In this epic flop, Patricia Cornwell's humor is trite and tiring, her aviation lessons boring, plot so choppy as to be pathetic and she actually treats the characters like she hates them rather than making them endearing.
If you have not bought this, your lucky! If you are curious on how far an excellent writer can fall from grace, borrow it!

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Summary: not your aver5age p.cornwell
Review: I missed Kay Scarpetta. I read 190 pages of this book thinking it would get better and I would become interested. I could not. Then I quit. Too many vast differences in story lines. Hard to follow.

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Summary: Don't Bother
Review: I was very disappointed in this book. Even though I knew it was not going to be like her other novels, it was not what I expected from one of my favorites authors. I actually only read half of the book and then dropped it. My patience ran out when I came to the part where the fish and crab were having a conversation. Many other well known writers in this field have written novels that are light hearted or not their traditional books. I have enjoyed these (Painted House,Skipping Christmas for example). I think Cornwall should stick to what she writes best and future frivolous books like this should be written under a pseudo name.

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Summary: HOW COULD SHE?
Review: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! There are only two possible reasons why this book is so bad: 1- Patricia owed the publisher one last book on her contract and wrote this to laugh in their faces; 2-She wrote this in high school and added the name of the female police chief to fool her fans into thinking this was "new" material! The cover touts this book as " a dark comedy". It actually is [not at all]. I am SO disappointed. Patricia, it's not nice to [fool] your fans.

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Summary: What hopeless drivel
Review: Cornwell did very well with Kay Scarpetta but humor is not her forte. This inane nonsense insults one's intelligence. Please, no more!

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Summary: Isle of Dogs Was Truly a Dog
Review: I've read all of Patricia Cornwell's books and have loved them all until now. This book was hard for me to get through, most of the characters were pretty absurd and the story line was far from riveting. It was a nice try from the norm, but please go back to Scarpetta, Marino, and the rest of the old gang.

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Summary: Is This For Real?
Review: I too have read all of Patricia Cornwell's books and was looking forward to her latest. What a disappointment this book was. I cannot believe her editors allowed this to be published. The NY Times book review should rate novels like they do movies because this one is definitely a one star! I kept hoping it would get better, but it never did. It took me almost two weeks to struggle through this disaster. I kept thinking I should do something more constructive with my time. DO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS BOOK, IT'S NOT EVEN WORTH THE PRICE OF A PAPERBACK!!!

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Summary: It's just a change....lighten up!
Review: Folks must understand that Cornwell just wanted to do something a little different- like most good authors do now and then. I agree with most everyone that we expect blood and guts from her and I have every book she has written. This wasn't my favorite but I still enjoyed it.