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Summary: NOT UP TO SNUFF
Review: I love to read Cornwell's novels. But since I have started this one I only get a few pages and can't keep my eyes open. This says a lot since I read an average of 5 hours a day. I doubt that I will finish this book.It is confusing and what is up with the names of these people.
Well judge for yourself but as for me I will hope she puts out another of the type she is known so well for.
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Summary: Unbelievable!
Review: I have read all the Scarpetta books. The last ones were slightly repetitive and less interesting than the former ones. But I have also read the Hammer/Brazil books and I like Southern Cross a lot and Hornet's nest is quite good too. BUT....I cannot believe Ms.Cornwell wrote Isle of Dogs. The worst of it all is that some critic has compared her new style with the brilliant black humour of Carl Hiassen. Sorry... but I entirely disagree. Hiassen together with Elmore Leonard are perfect in this style, and Patricia Cornwell, perhaps trying to copy it, has completely lost her shot. I feel very free to say it because I like Ms. Cornwell's books, but this narrative does not fit her style and Isle of Dogs is a disaster: bizarre but not funny; absolutely pathetic because you follow the building of an episope which should make you laugh and you just have to read it again just to find out that you're not the one who didn't understand the joke... it's just a bad joke!
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Summary: Snow Job
Review: This has got to be one of the worst books I have ever read by an author of notable acclaim. I feel as if Ms Cornwell wanted to test her popularity and see just how far her fans will follow her. I'll follow once, but it will be a long time before I waste my money or time on another such venture. The story had some promise at first but quickly degenerated into the ridiculous. If this was an attempt to be quirky, Ms Cornwell sorely missed the mark. Not only would I not recommend this book to someone, I would go out of my way to persuade them not to read it. Shame on you Patricia Cornwell. Your fans deserve better.
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Summary: EEEEEK!
Review: i have 3 words for those considering this book: Don't Do It!
patricia cornwell is one of my favorite writers; this book is NOT representative of her work. let it go by. i wish i had read some reviews before purchasing this book. i cant get past page 25.
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Summary: The Pits
Review: I read at least 40 books a year. In the last 5 years this is the only one I have not finished. This was without doubt the most ludicrous, unfunny, uninteresting and boring book I have ever tried to read. It had nothing to hold my interest or engage me. If a first time author presented this garbage to a publisher it would be returned unopened. As it is they have foisted it on an unsuspecting public who buy the Cornwell brand. Not any more!
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Summary: Isle of Dogs
Review: I usually enjoy Cornwell's novels but couldn't wait for this one to end!!! Judy Hammer and Andy Brazil's characters were better developed in Hornet's Nest and Southern Cross. The only positive things in my opinion: the humor in Windy Breeze's stupidity, learning a little bit of history, and the brief moments that we heard from Kay Scarpetta.
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Summary: Chill out guys!
Review: Firstly, I really enjoyed this book. Secondly, I can't believe how many people have reviewed this book who didn't even read it. Saying "the plot goes nowhere" doesn't mean much when you admit you only read 40 pages. OK, so I want to know what Scarpetta's up to as much as you, but don't whinge because this book didn't tell you. It's not a Scarpetta book. It sounds like most people are Scarpetta fans, not Cornwell fans. Imagine how boring it must be for the poor author to work constantly on Scarpetta year in and year out. She deserves to try something she wants to do. She is still one hell of an author, even if she changes genres. It's a satire. It's about politics, dishonesty, hysteria, lack of communication and jumping to conclusions. Yes, it's a little bizzare - that's the point. This is the ridiculous world we could live in if politicians go down the path of misinformation and 'perception management'. It's sad when the only place you can find the truth is a web site. It's even sadder when this web site resorts to the same planting of misinformation it detests. Yes - the people on the island were gullible, but how many of us would have been out searching for treasure? How many of us are outraged over something we hear without having the facts? Look a bit more deeply into this novel. It can really make you stop and think.
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Summary: Really a bad book by a great author
Review: I too am a Cornwell fan. I did not think to read the review of the book before I bought it because I always buy her books on the first day they are released. Not only that, I buy the unabridged tapes so that after I read the book, I can enjoy it again and again on tape. I read it and thought I might have missed something, so I listened to it also. When I like an author, it is hard for me to not like their work. I loved early Kay Scarpetta books and liked most of the later ones, although they had gotten so dark that depression ruled over plot. I too miss Kay, but thought maybe Ms. Cornwell could no longer relate to her characters without seeing them all as suicidal and dysfunctional. When a new series came out, I saw it as a new beginning for a favorite author. The first one was OK, and I hoped for more in the second book. I did not like the second as well, but hoped for more in the third. This book was just plain terrible. Like others, I saw talking crabs and fish and typing dogs as stupid. I tried to ignore the really stupid parts (like the kidnapped dentist) and just read for story - surely, I thought, there must be one. Well, there was not. I am sorry for Ms. Cornwell if this is the best that she can now write. Maybe she should re-read some of her earlier work and recapture some of her excitement and hope and great character development.
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Summary: Isle of Dogs
Review: What a huge disappointment. This is without a doubt one of the worst books I've ever attempted to read. It doesn't even sound like Patricia Cornwell. I've read most of her other books including the NON Kay Scarpetta Hornet's Nest, but Isle of Dogs is the worst. A waste of time and $$$.
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Summary: Is this a joke....
Review: I like the many reviews before thought this book was just horrible. I tried and tried to continue, but I did get further then some. I am upto page 152. I'm not saying I could do better but please let the author no that next time I will be a little leary of purchasing her book on the blind without reading the jacket cover.
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