Don't Think Twice

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Summary: Don't Think Twice
Review: First book I've ever read that I could not guess what was going to happen next. Written from the viewpoint of a Native American fighting to keep from losing the most important things in his life-his marriage and his land. A lone man fighting greedy businessmen and his own people, who view him as a traitor, to save his resort and his marriage. Not knowing if he can even trust his best friend, he sets on a path to save what he loves most and risks it all in doing so. I loved it, my mother loved it and by brother is reading it now. I was fortunate enough to have met the author's wife in a small book store and was able to get the book autographed. She also told me it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Here's hoping the book gets the attention it so greatly deserves. Anxiously awaiting the sequel due out in June, "Six Crooked Highways."

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I read the entire book last Sunday. Curiously woven together,and in a unique, man's way of thinking. My wife read it and alsothought it was well-written. She couldn't put it down either! Mystery not just for mystery's sake...an interesting, environmental-conscience-real-people-story. ..believable. Something you'll enjoy talking with friends about

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Summary: Don't Think Twice
Review: It's 12:12 a.m. and I just had to stay up and finish this book tonight. Like the main character, I was often unsure what was going on exactly, and couldn't tell the good guys from the bad, and as that is often the case in real life, I totally identified with him even though I am a woman.

I loved the lyrical quality of the writing, stopping often to reread sentences and entire passages, admiring how sharply Wayne Johnson captured a scene in a few phrases or sentences.

The writing style and the story are perfectly matched. The characters could be someone you know.

I loved it.

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Summary: Why did Amazon kill me?
Review: My earlier very positive review of this book ("Great characters, compelling suspense, brilliant ecofiction") was correctly attributed to [e-mail], but now it's merely by "a reader." Here I've written hundreds of reviews for Library Journal, been named LJ reviewer of the year, and am writing my second book about environmental literature, but for some reason Amazon has emasculated me into "a reader." Hey, Amazon, I like tomgirls. You've made money selling my first book (Earth Works) and will make more of the seond one (Where the Wild Books Are)What did I do to get bumped off by you? No, I don't suspect this "review" will be helpful to readers, but my books are!

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Summary: Awesome Crime Fiction
Review: The two negatives: 1) the book takes about 60 pages to get up to the suspense level where it's impossible to put down, and 2)it's not overly idiot-friendly. Both of these drawbacks are negligible when you consider that it provides an awesome plot in an unforgettable and palpable world -- one you've probably never seen before. And for the first time since JD Carr, a mystery writer is crediting the audience with the kind of intelligence that draws them to mysteries in the first place. On top of that, it moves like a locomotive. You want stupid, read John Sandford's "Prey" novels. You want a spooky, gripping read that will make you feel like you've lived through something intense, try Wayne Johnson.

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Summary: disjointed, sometimes, infuriating, others, good, bad?
Review: Wayne Johnson, author, tight pants, black hair, tough talker. I don't know, something about it bothered me, too much description, maybe, or was it that the descriptions all came in the form of lists, filled with commas, and really amounted to very little, not ,much?

HIDE THE BALL? It's true that in a mystery the author is always keeping a great deal from the reader, it's the nature of the beast. In most mysteries however, whether first person or third, the protagonist is in the dark as well. In this case the narrator, Peter Two Persons (god, is this spelled out for or what?) knows so much more than he's telling, that one gets the feeling not only of being in the dark, but of being teased. Johnson is playing a game with the reader, and I find it infuriating.

It's a shame, because I think if he had not worked so hard at being so lyrical , and had been a little more honest with his readers, Johnson would have had a really wonderful book here.

By the way, has anybody ever looked at somebody's eyes and seen "Blue with flecks of white" in them?