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Summary: Use the pages to line the kennel!!
Review: What an insult to my intelligence! Possibly the worst book that I've ever read. I struggled through as much of it as I could stomach and then made the wise choice to throw it aside.
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Summary: Heavy hearted reader
Review: As a great fan of Patricia Cornwell, I anxiously await each of her new books, and so it is with a heavy heart that I write this review. This is a horribly written book filled with a cast of unbelievable, bumbling idiots. There is not one intelligent character in this book - nor is there any redeeming feature about this book.
What a disappointment. As a reader, I feel angry and insulted that Ms. Cornwell thought this book would be enjoyable to anyone. What a tremendous waste of time: hers as an author, yours as a reader.
Message to Ms. Cornwell: Give your readers some credit for having some intelligence.
Question for Ms. Cornwell: Why in the world would you write a book like this and then actually allow it to be published?
Message to Patricia Cornwell fans: DON'T buy this book - it's a waste of your money and a waste of your time.
I gave this book one star only because that is the lowest number allowed. If given the choice, I would rate it a zero.
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Summary: i want my money back
Review: This has to be one of the worst books i ever read. I have always
liked her Kay Scarpetta books but this was just an attempt to make money or something. How I got through it, I'll never know.
If anyone wants to read it, you can have mine for nothing.
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Summary: Who wrote this?
Review: Once again Cornwell departs from Dr. Kay and I just can't believe its the same author. I applaud her desire and attempts to write stories about people and places other than her much loved Scarpetta series but, she should just stick to what she does best. It was the first book in a long time that I just could not finish.
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Summary: Not a typical Cornwell novel would be an understatement
Review: Usually I finish one of Cornwell's novels within a day and it requires all my willpower to not finish it within one sitting. Not the case with this one. I am left wondering where the plot is headed with every page and what I am supposed to be laughing at if this is in fact a comedy. The switch between blind govenors and angelic serial murderers has me wondering whether it is worth finishing or not. But still, I trudge though hoping to find a glimmer of what I find in her previous work. I definetly DO NOT recommend it.
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Summary: BO(...)OORING!!!!
Review: I wish there was a zero stars option to rate this book because one star is too many! I always wait with excitement for a new book by my (formerly) favorite author Patricia Cornwall and eagerly bought this one without knowing the storyline or any of the reviews it had received. It is AWFUL!! I am only about 1/3 of the way through it and cannot continue. It careened from a crazed angelic-faced teenage female serial killer (puh-leeze)who is not mentioned again (at least as far as I have read) to a senile old (...) of a governor who, I think, is supposed to be comical but the attempt just comes off as embarrassing. We also are subjected to a bunch of ignorant, hokey islanders with a dental scam worked in for added 'excitement', then we get the unbelievably boring commentary from Trooper Truth, what is that about? This book receives the 'honor' of being the first book I can't make myself finish. If this book had been written by an unknown, it would have been gathering dust in a publisher's trash bin somewhere. I think it just shows the greed of the publishing industry as no editor or publisher with any intelligence could have published this without knowing it is a major stinker. That they chose to publish it in spite of it's complete lack of merit just shows their objective was to make money off the reader's familiarity with Cornwall's name, not to publish a genuine work of talent.
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Summary: Unfortunate!
Review: This book is a dud for this reader. Other works by Cromwell are executed with terrific insight and research, but IF this was an attempt at humor it is a serious disappointment!
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Summary: FOR the dogs...
Review: Although Kay Scarpetta does make a cameo appearance, this story is not up to the typical high quality and intrigue we've come to expect from Patricia Cornwell. In fact, in places it is just plain bizarre (Talking trout? Jumping crabs? And those endless essays!) Patricia, what were you thinking??!? Even Michelle Hall's 5 star reading (including her interpretation of the fictitious Tangerian dialect) isn't enough to dredge this one out of the cellar!
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Summary: ISLE OF DOGS lives up to it name
Review: As an avid Patricia Cornwell fan, I am exceeding disappointed. This book is dull. Cornwell's last three books have been steadily going to, dare one say, the dogs. This one has arrived at the stated destination. It seems Ms. Cornwell has taken herself and her academic posturings to the limit; one is not reading her materials to be educated by someone who with so few historical/linguistic credentials. One positive note: I totally agree with her position regarding the 'politically correct' Pilgrim conspiracy--Virgina WAS first permanent English settlement in New World.
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Summary: One of the most disjointed books I have read in a long time.
Review: Ms. Daniels-Cornwell should stick to writing her normal Forensic Pathology type of books. This book is one of the most disjointed books I have read in a long time. The subject matter is boring and pulls in a lot of directions. The dialogue is childish and silly. It seems to me that the author was forced to write a story (on a deadline) and she produced one in a hurry in draft form without reviewing it. The storyline is simplistic and does not at all match the sophistication of her other novels. I have read all her novels and was very disappointed in this one. In the past few of her novels I have seen a decline in the depth of the storyline and her character description, but not to this level. I was not totally pleased with her later novels, but could finish them and could say that I enjoyed them. I learned something from them with respect to forensic science. Not "Isle of Dogs". It is a silly collection of disjointed chapters. I would not recommend this book to anyone and am sorry I bought it. Especially the hard-cover edition was a waste of money.
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