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Summary: THE LAKE HOUSE
Review: mR. PATTERSON HAS FINALLY RUN OUT OF TALENT. THIS BOOK WAS A CHORE TO READ. IT WAS 4TH GRADE LEVEL DIALOGUE AND THE PREMISE WAS STUPID. WHAT A WASTE OF MY MONEY AND MY TIME AND MY EYES. I DON'T THINK I WILL EVER BUY ANOTHER BOOK OF HIS. HE SHOULD KNOW THAT IF HE CAN'T WRITE A GOOD BOOK HE SHOULDN'T WRITE ONE AT ALL. I WISH I COULD AT LEAST GET MY MONEY BACK FOR THIS ONE.
I HATED TO GIVE IT A RATING OF 1 BECAUSE IT IS REALLY A ZERO WITH NO REDEEMING QUALITY.
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Summary: Patterson should be embarrassed
Review: I bought this book for a vacation read, where I just want an enjoyable, fun read. This book was so poorly written that it interfered with the dumb, unbelievable story. Maybe this book was the result of another experiment: Can great marketing sell a lousy book? The answer is apparently yes, to the disappointment of readers and buyers. Don't waste your time!
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Summary: Don't waste your time or money! Shame on Little Brown!
Review: Shame on the publisher! Shame on the editor! Shame on Patterson! This book was just terrible. It's subtitle should read The King of Cliches. A first-time novelist/amateur would have done better. The writing was pre-adolescent, the plot ridiculous, and the ending downright pitiful. Patterson's attempt to ride the coattails of the original novel failed miserably. Was this a rough draft penned in less than a week? What were the editor and publisher thinking? Did they even read it before sending it to print? I doubt it.
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Summary: Please don't read this book!!!
Review: I am a writing student at Vanderbilt University. My brother, after seeing an advertisement for this book on TV, bought it, and I promtly picked it up for some vacation reading. I am so sorry that I wasted the 4 hours that it took me to read, as I could have read something that was at least well written. I do not usually write reviews on Amazon, but this book was so bad that I felt that I had to warn someone...FIrst of all, Patterson throws around pop-culture references as a subsitute for plot and charachter depth. I could not even force myself to become emotionally invested in even the children's fate. He lacks any sort of captivating descriptions and his spare, dumbed-down prose offended the writer in me. I kept reading in the vain hope that I would eventually become involved in the story. I would not want anyone that I know to read this book. James Patterson, while I'm sure that the research was, to him, very interesting, managed to RUIN a perfectly good concept. Thanks to The Lake House, I won't be reading any more of his work EVER AGAIN. BOTTOM LINE: not worth the money you'd spend on shipping or gas to the bookstore.
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Summary: Cheap sequal
Review: When the Wind Blows was innovative and entertaining. This "sequel" read as though Patterson hacked it out in an hour. What a disappointment!
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Summary: When the wind blows near the lake house kids fly again
Review: Max and the other kids with wings are back in the sequel to Patterson's biggest selling book When the Wind Blows. If you were not a fan of the first one then don't buy The Lake House as it takes genetic engineering and the kid's abilities to a new level. If however you were a fan, then your journey into the weird winged children's world will take your imagination far. The Lake House starts off a bit slow with Frannie O'Neill and Kit in court fighting for custody of the children against their biological parents. Dr Ethan Kane head of a secret sub branch called the hospital of the evil labs known as the School that the kids were created in brings action to the book about a quarter of the way in. The thrills and action keep up until near the end. The ending is a little too convenient for my liking. If you only like Alex Cross type Patterson novels then you probably won't like this but if you like most of what Patterson has written then you'll love this. Unlike other Patterson series books which you can read as stand alone novels if you haven't read their predecessors, with this one you really need to have read When the Wind Blows first to understand the emotions of the children towards Frannie and Kit and some of the story line.
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Summary: Buyer Beware!!
Review: Oh,my! The children may, but this book certainly doesn't fly! I think Mr.Patterson is under enormous pressure now to write a really great book to redeem himself. He writes like a first time self-published novelest...where is his editor? Shame on Little-Brown for even allowing this to be printed. As an ex-ad. man, Mr. Patterson surely knows the tricks to make a book sell...and it looks like typical advertising at work here...but alas, it's false advertising, because behind the packaging is pure junk!
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Summary: It Will Only Make you Dumber
Review: One of the worst books I have ever read. It only took me 3 days but it was horrible. Patterson has really dropped off. Loved Jack & Jill and some of the other Cross novels but lately he's putting out too much material, too fast.
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Summary: One of Patterson's weakest novels...
Review: I have read every James Patterson novel, from 'The Berryman Murders' on and I can honestly say this is his weakest novel to date. Patterson is off and on with me. I LOVED the Womens Murder Club series and "The Beach House". The last 2 Alex Cross novels (Violets are Blue & Four Blind Mice) were terrible, and even though many people hated it I really liked "The Jester", which is probably Patterson's most purely entertaining novel. ... This novel's prequel, "When the Wind Blows", was one of Patterson's best non-Cross thrillers and he completely ruined it by rehashing this garbage. It's so obvious that Patterson isn't even trying anymore to do something remotely different, while writers like Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane & Ridley Pearson are writing inventive and truly good novels. Skip this thrash and read some early Patterson if you really feel the need. This man hasn't written a decent novel since "2nd Chance"!
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Summary: Not the Kind of James Patterson Novel We're Used To
Review: The children from When the Wind Blows are back. In the sequel, we catch up with the children as they're part of a bitter custody battle. Frannie and Kit aren't their real parents but know the children aren't your typical kids. They're special. Different. But the biological parents want their kids back. Maximum, Ozymandias, Matthew, Icarus, Peter and Wendy aren't just your average kids. They can fly. And they're really part human, part bird as the result of torturous experiments they suffered at the School. But when their flock is broken up, Frannie slips into a deep depression. Kit attempts to move on with his life, without Frannie and the children. The children struggle to fit in even though they're so awkwardly out of place that it hurts. Pretty soon some old habits of the evil kind come into play and the kids are running, or flying, for their lives. There's only one place they truly feel safe and it's far away. Almost out of reach. The Lake House. As they fight just to stay alive, they learn there's a bigger reason they're being pursued. It's not just because they're scientific phenomenons. They're needed to carry on a much bigger role. One that extends to everyone from past presidents to geniuses. If you're expecting an Alex Cross novel, this isn't it. Readers coming to the book looking for the fiction that drives our favorite James Patterson character are going to be disappointed. But if you can look at the novel itself, with none of those stereotyped expectations that this is going to be the type of Patterson novel you're used to, then you're in for a good read. If you haven't read When the Wind Blows, you'll want to pick up a copy before you dive into The Lake House.
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