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Summary: whacky
Review: The only good thing i have to say about this book is that it has enough plots running through it to keep me entertained.
the story line is just to whacky
I am hope ms.Cornwell will return to writing books like The body Farm which was excellent!
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Summary: Isle of Dogs
Review: Okay, Okay, I am a great fan of Patricia Cornwell and most of her books. I was disappointed by this particular one. Ms. Cornwell has been becoming more and more weird with her books. Her earlier ones are much better written with a better plot and more believable characters. If you are a Cornwell reader who loves Kay Scapetta, stay away from this one. No, it wasn't funny. The plot was lousy and the characters......
Enough said.
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Summary: Entertaining romp
Review: This was my first experience with Patricia Cornwell, picked up Isle of DoGs because of the jacket reference to Carl Hiassen, and I found it very enjoyable. I've been recommending it to everyone. I had no idea that she's known for murder mysteries (that's not a genre I find particularly compelling). I decided to see what else Cornwell's written and have come across the slew of negative reviews from her "loyal" fans. Come on, people...lighten up! Criminy. I don't know that I want to read any of her previous books after reading the reviews from her faithful who couldn't relax and be entertained by this escapade.
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Summary: I'd rather give it a zero!
Review: Oh, my.....this is a pathetic waste of print. This book is embarassingly bad. Please, don't waste your money. It's just truly awful.
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Summary: This is not Carl Hiassen
Review: The book flap compares this to Carl Hiassen, there is no comparison. In Hiassen's books the stories are real and the characters are absurd. In this book the plot line is missing and the characters should be in a home for the depraved. It is impossible to review the book because it makes no sense. It seems Ms. Cornwell had some characters she wanted to explore, then tried to come up with a story to tie them together, rather than telling a story through the characters. I'm suprised Ms. Cornwells editor didn't have the good sense to stop her from doing this to herself and her readers.
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Summary: I COULDN'T stop laughing
Review: I loved this book!Yeah, okay, the plot's a bit silly, and some of the characters are ludicrous, but so what? It's very, very funny. I laughed outloud several times. Cornwell's humour does not lay on the surface. you havwe to look to find it, which is where many (near all) of the other reviewers are going wrong. they expect to see a funny line, when in fact there are few. but there are many many funny scenes, funny inferences, ironies, etc. and you have to actually read the book properly to see it. it lies beneath the words, and in the images they produce, the thoughts in your head, the connections, etc. I think it's a real shame that people knock COrnwlel just because they dont like things that are a bit different (becase she can't POSSIBLY do her own thing, after all, she's your slave isn't she.) These are HER books, not yours. She ultimately writes for her own pleasure, not yours. If you enjoy the book, that is only incidental. The most important fact of a book is taht the author enjoyed writing it. and i sense that this book was great fun to read. as well as being very humourous, it is also very informative and interesting. Trooper Truth's essays were by no means boring, and i find myself enjoying them very much. obviously a very well researched book. This also says many things about modern society, for example, how the internet is becoming such an integral part of our lives, and how it influences very much our every day lives, and how shameful we all are in believing most of the rubbish we read on it, and how it is often used to manipulate us. the only down-side to this book was the abscene of Virginia West. All in all i believe this ia very good, very humousous, very intersting book, which deserves much praise. Well done Patricia Cornwell. (now, fellow reviewers, as i trust most of you didn't agree with what i wrote, you may now vote this reviw "unhelpful" as that is what most people generally do when they come across a review they don't agree with.)
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Summary: SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!
Review: I bought this book because I liked the Kay Scarpetta books and assumed Patricia Cornwell had to be good. You know what they say about assuming!! I should have been wise enough to check out the reviews ...before I invested my money. I read 100 pages through to Chapter 9 thinking I must be missing something - now I know it wasn't me -- it was Patricia Cornwell at what has to be her worst!
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Summary: Silly
Review: I thought it was just me when I started reading this. I gave up after 3 chapters. It's silly - plain and simple. It's not funny, and it's poorly written - jumping all over the place with infantile characters. Maybe Cornwell will resurrect Scarpetta. If she does, I hope Scarpetta has gotten over her "attitude" and imperious manner.
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Summary: I did not like this book at all
Review: I didn't like the characters, the dialect, or the plot.
No matter how much you love Patricia Cornwell, I don't
predict that you will like this book.
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Summary: Isle of Dogs
Review: Yikes, I couldn't even finish it. I loved her earlier works, even the non-Scarpetta books were enjoyable. I can understand how she might get sick of her characters as many authors do and as she's obviously done with the Scarpetta series and I'm grateful she just took a break instead of killing the rest of those charaters off, but this is just awful. Someone please tell her she's not funny. Flat characters and bad tempered stabs at humor, don't bother, wait for the next one.
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