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Summary: Patricia! Don't do this again!!
Review: Patricia Cornwell is one of my favorite authors in spite of authoring the "Andy Brazil" books. Her series based on her Dr. Scarpetta character are wonderful. However, this new book (Isle of DoGs) is absolutely horrid. It's like Andy Brazil just joined the cast of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. For the most part it hovered around obtusively stupid.I'm sure that Ms. Cornwell thought she was having some fun and delving into the artistic side of dark humor but for me and everyone else here who read it we all thought it was just plain stupid. I really went out on a limb reading this third Andy Brazil novel but I will never again read anything Ms. Cornwell writes except for Kay Scarpetta novels -- I learned my lesson, Yass I did! Steven in Oregon
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Summary: Vapid, Vacuous, Tasteless
Review: I am generally a Patricia Cornwell fan, but this book is absolutely terrible. Her attempts at humor are at best stupid, and are often tasteless and even racist. Black comedies are supposed to have some believability and creditability but this one has none. Even the character's names, while supposedly funny, are just stupid puns (Major Trader, come on, you can do better than that!). And talking fish and thinking dogs! What! Please Ms. Cornwell, drop this ridiculous style!
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Summary: Moronic
Review: When I started this book, I thought that what I was reading was
a joke, but as I continued, I realised that the author was TRYING to be funny with absolutely no success. I could not even
finish the book with its unbelievably moronic characters. If
this is meant to be a comedy or a parody, I have to say to the
author "stick to mystery & suspense"
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Summary: Isle of Dogs
Review: I thoroughly agree with the majority of reviewers. I got to page 69, called it quits, and returned it to the library. So un-Cornwell. Actually it should get 0 stars.
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Summary: No purchase here
Review: I've always loved the Kay Scarpetta books; I found Southern Cross a little difficult. After reading SO MANY bad reviews, I will not purchase or even attempt to read Isle of Dogs. Sorry, Patricia, but ALL these people can't be wrong!
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Summary: This Book Is A Dog
Review: The only reason this book sold was because it has Patricia Cornwell's name on it. This is the worst book she's ever written. I forced myself to read half of it and hated every minute. Bring back Kay Scarpetta!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!
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Summary: What a disappointment
Review: I always look forward to spending time with Patricia Cornwell (and Kay Scarpetta.) When I got this treat for Christmas, I decided to set aside New Years' day for this "great" read. What a disappointment!! I forced myself through it (kept thinking that it HAD to turn better -- if I just stuck with it.) It did not. What a waste of my time and her time....and the time of everyone else looking for the standard Cornwell fare. I didn't see the humor in it, and will be very reluctant to pick up another Cornwell book in the future -- Skip this one, and keep your positive feeling towards Kay Scarpetti alive!!
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Summary: She's Spoofing Us
Review: After reading all of Cornwell's books, I find that she has gone off the chart---at the bottom. As a Virginian living in Florida about the only redeeming value of this book was to read about Tangier Island and places familiar to me in my home town.
I hope she was doing all this as a joke because it didn't live up to her usual. I don't blame Dr.S for going out of town.
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Summary: Readers Beware
Review: This book wasted 3 hours of my life which I will never get back. I like the fact that Cornwell has decided to take a different path and expand her writing but Isle of Dogs is a jumble of boring and incoherrent passages loosely put together. It seems Cornwell must be trying to fulfill some contract with her publisher and that is why she released this book of nonsense. It is meant to have a comedic theme, well it doesn't! The characters and plot are so unbeleiveable and moronic I would suggest that anyone who enjoys this book should seek serious professional help!
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Summary: More REAL Patricia Cornwell... please!
Review: Having read and loved all of Patricia Cornwell's previous books, I was eagerly awaiting the next one, and asked for Isle of Dogs for Christmas. Obviously it was quite different from her usual... not necessarily negative but in this case a big disappointment.
Instead of capitalizing on her strengths... a thoughtful, realistic & feminist voice, psychological insight, and thorough research (forensics, etc.) she tried moving far afield into the territory of more conventional bestsellers like Nelson Demille and James Patterson... sometimes fun and funny, but relying too heavily on exaggeratedly two-dimensional comic characters, and over-the-top, implausibly extreme situations and occurrences. I'd love to see Ms. Cornwell go back to her core strengths and target a more thoughtful readership rather than reach for a spot in the macho, big show-offy "soon-to-be-a-major-motion-picture" mass market genre. If she is trying to grab bigger bucks, this might work once, but I doubt if her loyal fans will purchase another one like Isle of Dogs.
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