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Summary: The Sky Is Falling ! So is Sheldon's Qualtiy !
Review: Sidney Sheldon is one of my favorite authors. A piece of the Sky must have hit him on the head for him to publish this sub-par novel.
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Summary: Read this...there's some cute pointers.
Review: This is a quick and easy read. I gobbled it up happily in one sitting, because it was very quick to grab my attention, and once it was grabbed, it held me till the very end. I don't need to and I won't tell the plot line of this story...read the blurb above. Once again, Sheldon like the true magician he is, pulls the rabbit out of the hat in a way only he can, when you least expect it. Just when you think there couldn't be any more surprises, the story veers off into a new and unexpected direction. That's what makes Sidney Sheldon, Sidney Sheldon! Cute details that most readers will probably not have been aware.1) The principal in Kemal's school, Vera Kostoff, is obviously a homage to Sheldon's wife Alexandra, (née Kostoff) 2) The character of Anastasia Mann is Alexandra's sister in real life. 3) Rowana Trott I believe is his niece. (I must check on that) 4) Armand Deutsch worked alongside Sheldon when he was working for MGM. I believe that's all there is. I think it's a cute way to pay tribute to people who influenced his life. This wasn't a classic like Master of the Game (and a novel of that caliber I believe will be VERY hard to reach) but, nevertheless it was compulsively readable, and just to contradict the nay-sayers: "Predictable? This is anything BUT predictable!" I now eagerly await for more! Will we see Dana, Jeff and Kemal again? Give us more, sir! Keep up the good work!!!
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Summary: THE SKY IS FAILING
Review: SIDNEY SHELDON has won over a legion of fans with the ingenious twists and turns in the plot and the trademark exotic locations. His earlier works, If Tomorrow Comes and Rage of Angels showcases the prime of his career as a master of story-telling, and in his latest offering, THE SKY IS FALLING, one cannot help but feel that the riveting suspense is diluted and his narrative unfocused. No doubt that Sheldon manages to churn out a tale of chilling suspense and plutonic warheads with the charismatic Dana Evans as the tenacious reporter peeling the shrouding mystery of the demise of Winthrop family, but one cannot help to feel the suspense is defused by the presence of too many unnecessary characters and the jetsetting to many places confuses the readers without giving much exotic details and distinct traits. The twist and turns are much too predictible and snowballed into a monotonous read in the middle section of the book. The finale - too overblown and incredible - and it would be better if Sheldon has sustained a more persistent dig at the hounding media. The romance and relationship between Jeff and Dana, the emotional quandary between Kemal and Dana was much to be left explored - but Sheldon stopped short. There is certainly substance, but it fails to sustain and captivate like his earlier works. Give me any other book by Sheldon, and you will see why THE SKY IS FALLING is failing readers.
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Summary: The Sky Has Made a Crash Landing
Review: Oy... what to say... this book is by far not one of Sidney Sheldon's better productions. It is lame and entirely too predictable. I had to keep checking the cover to remind myself that this was written by Sidney Sheldon and not Mary Higgens Clark. Is this the same writer that penned Bloodline, Master of the Game and Rage of Angels? Uhm... in a word; no. I've been a fan of Sidney Sheldon's for years but this book is slow, tedious and as a side note to every writer over 50, people do not refer to each other as "darling", much less constantly!! Anyway, if you want to enjoy Sidney Sheldon at his best read one of the 3 aforementioned books, not this pedantic novel.
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Summary: The quality is falling!
Review: This book never sat right with me. It seemed lacking somehow. The same choppy sentences, the same suspenseful ending, the same annoying habit of peppering the narrative with "Dana saids" or Dana did whatever when it's obvious she is the one speaking or acting. Therefore, it had to be the plot. Maybe I'm just getting accustomed to figuring them out, the good guy persona that's really masking an evil mind, etc. I did guess who the bad guys were, but I also never felt like I got to know Dana like I got to know the heroines of other Sheldon novels. The story wasn't very deep. There were too many characters (I had to keep flipping back pages to see who was who,) or maybe my confusion was because they weren't fleshed out enough.) I didn't have a problem with Jeff being with Rachel; for her to insist he not spend time with her in her time of need would be cruel. Besides, it got him out of the way while Dana was globe trotting. I did have a problem with Dana's leaving Kemal in the care of a woman she knew nothing about, and not making taking him to a doctor as soon as she realized he was unnaturally sleepy, but perhaps the rich really are different regarding indifference to their children and content to leave them in the care of nannies. I was very disappointed and was glad I borrowed this from the library. Perhaps Sidney Sheldon, whom I believe is in his 80s, is slowing down, at least with his plotting if not with his research. Maybe he just wore himself out visiting each locale (I read he does this, no matter how briefly the specific location is mentioned.) Next time a story without so many locations might work better and give us a less predictable plot.
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Summary: It was simply fabulous
Review: I don't know about everyone else. But I love this book I couldn't put it down. The ending was superb when the bad guys look like they about get away and then the plane explode. Boris looks away in the distance. was the ending to end all ending. Great job Sidney Sheldon.
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Summary: An Old Time Sidney Sheldon Read!
Review: Almost 30 years ago, I stumbled upon a book by the new to me author, Sidney Sheldon. The title of the book was The Other Side of Midnight and once I read it, the rest is history. History in the sense that from that day forward Sheldon became one of those authors I just had to read as soon as a new book was published. And while I fully acknowledge to others as well as myself that Sheldon never wrote highbrow literature, his books for the most part provided me with a fast paced escapist read. Unfortunately, this hasn't been the case now for several years. I became increasingly tired of Sheldon's books and while I continued to read most of them, some of that old fashioned pizazz was clearly missing. Whne I first saw The Sky is Falling, on the shelves, I seriously thought, for one minute, of not reading his latest book. And that would have been my mistake since this boosk is as intrigiung and page turning as Sheldons' other now vintage titles like If Tomorrow Comes, Rage of Angels, The Naked Face and The Other Side fo Midnight. Part political thriller, part mystery with a dash of irony mixed in The Sky is Falling is a book in the old time tradition of the Sheldon novels many of us have come to enjoy.
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Summary: easily a page-turner
Review: great book with a very interesting plot. there are twists, although some of the 'unexpected' parts of the story could be guessed by readers. the character development is not there, but the intriguing plot fully compensates it. gripping can be a good word to decribe the book. well done, mr. sheldon.
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Summary: The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling!
Review: With rare exception -- most notably 1998's Tell Me Your Dreams -- best-selling author Sidney Sheldon doesn't ask more of us as readers than to sit back and enjoy the tale he tells. The Sky Is Falling, his newest suspense thriller, is particularly enjoyable from the first page to the last. The novel's heroine is Dana Evans, whom we first met in Sheldon's 1997 book, The Best Laid Plans. She, you might recall, was one of the more appealing and sympathetic characters in The Best Laid Plans, and she was crying out for a story of her own. The story she gets is one of Sheldon's best. In the opening pages, Dana has been back from Sarajevo for only three months and is still, understandably, traumatized by her experiences there. Nevertheless, she is already back at work as a journalist for Washington Tribune Enterprises, where she is a reluctant celebrity not only to those who watch her compelling news broadcasts, but to her co-workers as well. One of her first interviewees is a man by the name of Gary Winthrop. Winthrop is, as Sheldon describes him, "...America's Prince Charming. A member of one of the country's most prominent families, he was young, handsome, charismatic." While it is obvious what real life family was the source of inspiration for Sheldon in his creation of the Winthrops, the similarities really do end there. The Winthrops are most definitely a fictional clan -- no more, no less. At any rate, Gary Winthrop is murdered just hours after Dana Evans interviews him. Dana soon learns not only that Gary was the last of the Winthrops, but that the other four members of his family all died violently within the last year. She wakes in the middle of the night thinking: "Five members of the same family killed in less than a year? What are the odds?" So begins her quest to find out who might have wanted to wipe out the entire Winthrop family and why. Her unofficial investigation takes her (and the reader) on a race across the United States, through much of Western Europe, and finally to the city of Moscow in the depths of a winter the likes of which Dana has never experienced. Along the way, Sheldon expertly keeps us guessing about what is going to happen next in a narrative as gleefully suspenseful as any I've read in some time. Does Dana find anything sinister behind the deaths of the Winthrop family? You'll have to read the book to find out, and it will be well worth your time doing so. I thought the end of the novel was a little too contrived, but no less exciting because of that, and I felt that, at times, Sheldon's dialogue strained credibility -- who in the world calls their significant other "darling" these days? -- but these are minor quibbles in comparison to the excellence of the whole. If you're already a fan of Sheldon's, you'll definitely enjoy The Sky Is Falling. If you've never read one of his books before, it's not at all a bad place to start. Then get yourself copies of his previous novels including: Bloodline, Rage of Angels, Master of the Game, If Tomorrow Comes and The Best Laid Plans for further enjoyable reading.
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Summary: Lousy.
Review: I know Mr. Sheldon has written a gazillion books, and I am certain that I once read one by him that I really liked, but I cannot remember which one, and it is MOST DEFINITELY not this one. This book is boring, slow-paced, and dull. Dana Evans, for one, starts out as a least likely mom type, which is how she is dropped into the plot, and true to form, turns out to be an awful Mom. Right away I didn't like her because of this and couldn't feel for her. She runs around the globe leaving her "son" with a lady she just met, but she does call once in awhile. Dana Evans' next sin is to tolerate the unheard of relationship between her fiance, Jeff, and his ex-wife, who just happens to be a perfect ten in every way. Dana questions in her mind, to her credit, but she sure is a whole lot more patient than any American woman I know. As Dana chases a murder story that winds up getting top government officials to tell her things that they have never told anyone (and this while she is a Star Reporter!), her son is first a troublemaker and then neglected at home. Nonetheless, our heroine plunges forth, reveals all, and there is a nice, homey, happy ending that - well, that left me nauseated. Don't waste your time on this one, I imagine Sidney Sheldon fans are pretty disappointed, because I would hate to think this is a sample of his work.
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