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Summary: AWFUL...AWFUL...AWFUL!!!
Review: I am a major James Patterson fan (have read all his books) but this was the absolute worst. I bought this book to read on my vacation and it proved to be a big yawn with a RIDICULOUS plot. However, I stuck it out thinking it would get better...well guess what it didn't.SAVE YOUR MONEY!!
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Summary: Very, very disappointed
Review: I am a great James Patterson fan. On vacation, I read the Beach House which I thoroughly enjoyed. In my relaxation, I re-read When the Wind Blows and I enjoyed it as much the second time. After completing When the Wind Blows, I realized that the sequel was now available! I rushed out a purchased the hard back thinking that it would be great to learn what happened to Max, Frannie, Kit, and the other kids!! Oh such anticipation! Then I read it.... Oh, such disappointment. All I can really say is - if you can, do not read this book! Keep your memories from When the Wind Blows and let it go at that. The Lake House is just awful - and the ending is so bad, I am still in shock. One dimensional is a nice way to describe what Patterson has done with this story. Hey, James Patterson - think of this as your "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". Pretend it didn't happen and lets move on to the third book that redeems the series! Please!
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Summary: Once I opened it I had no Problem Sleeping
Review: Unlike the commercial wherein it states something like once you open it you won't be able to sleep -- Unfortunately, this book was a sleeper. I have read many James Patterson books and was quite disappointed with The Lake House. It moved slow even with his short, precise chapters. Nothing really happened in the middle of the book that kept my interst, and nothing scary happened at all. When I finally understood The Resurection nothing came about from it. I love the characters though, like usual with his writing. I have enjoyed many, many of his previous books and was looking forward to enjoying this one as well. It just needed some umph!
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Summary: Heather
Review: I think Max isn't the only one that laid an egg. This was a horrible book. It was so bad in so many ways.
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Summary: No logical flow
Review: One of the worst books I have read in a long while. The author took an interest primise and wrote a story that just doesn't flow logically. It seems that he just forgiot to write a few chapters as there is no connection beween events and and implossible events just happen without reason. The end is totally bad!
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Summary: yuk
Review: This is the fourth Patterson book I've read. I keep reading them because he has bestsellers and I'm trying to figure out how he ever got published. I just don't see it. His plots are sometmes decent, but he's a poor writer with poor grammar, too many references to obscure novelists, incoherant random observations...I just don't see why people read his stuff. This is the last Patterson book I'll read. I've read enough to know that I don't enjoy a story that is poorly written. Lake House is like all the others--a plot that requires you to make a thousand assumptions if you can wade through the grammatical errors.
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Summary: Shame on James Patterson
Review: Mr. Patterson's note at the beginning of the book should be a warning to anyone interested in reading it. It is a justification for a terribly written book with an unrealistic and unbelievable plot. As a physician, I can tell tell you that what he claims will "happen in our lifetime" is a joke! This book was titled "Lake House" for the sole reason of misleading potential buyers. He was obviously hoping to ride the wave of the "Beach House" (which I did enjoy). I "was" a huge James Patterson fan (even attending his book signings) but he has lost my loyalty with this garbage.
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Summary: In short, only try this if you liked When the Wind Blows
Review: Before I really begin, let me just highlight something: When the Wind Blows was first published in 1998. This book, its sequel, in 2003. In the intervening years, James Patterson has published 11 (yes, that's right, 11) books. Occasionally this shows, as with here. As I say, this is a sequel to When the Wind Blows, which must of course be read first, in which veterinarian Frannie O'Neill and FBI agent Kit Brennan rescued six amazing winged (yes, winged) children from a horrendous human testing laboratory dubbed "The School" and exposed its activities to the world. The Lake House begins shortly after those events, and, at first, everything appears fine. The devastating genetic experiments have ceased, the inhuman tortures stopped. Or so everyone thinks. But, unbeknownst to everyone, there is another project currently underway, known as Resurrection, run by a Dr Ethan Kane (which, I'm sorry, but I think is a tremendous name for a villain). But Max, the eldest of the children, has learnt of the project's existence, and that puts her and those around her in mortal danger. Through her immense fear for herself and her friends, she says nothing, keeps it a secret. But, Kane knows that she knows. And because of that, she cannot be allowed to remain free. So the vicious hunt to bring the children back to captivity begins anew. If you hated When the Wind Blows, you will hate this. Loathe it, even. No doubt about it. Because it's really just more of the same. If you thought it was ludicrous, silly, childish, pointless, then The Lake House ain't gunna change your mind one bit. However, if you enjoyed the prequel (as I did, but only as an entertaining piece of hokum) then there's a definite chance you may like this too. It's fun, it's enjoyable for the most part, the pages fly by as usual and you finish it very quickly (although, I have come to realise that this means most of his books are very forgettable because of this pace. Indeed, I can hardly remember a single detail of The Jester, which I read but a few months ago.) Mainly, I liked the experience, it's imaginative, amusing, and entirely innocuous. However, it has big flaws. Thin characters, needless emotional garbage that doesn't fit and would make even Danielle Steele cringe (he should save this lovey stuff for his occasional romance novels) and, finally, a conclusion that leaves the reader unsatisfied and with a sense of anti-climax. Everything just seems to fade away. Things aren't actually explained. Certainly, almost nothing is: Project Resurrection, how it works, what it's really for, and many other things. I still have big questions I want answered. So, really, although I enjoyed it myself, I can't really recommend it, except to anyone who liked When the Wind Blows, or anyone who is just incredibly liberal with their choice of reading matter and is open to anything. This is a James Patterson novel, so of course it will soar from the shelves, but I sense that there are going to be some disappointed fans out there.
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Summary: DREADFUL
Review: It's amazing to me that this book could even get published. If any other author had submitted this manuscript to a publisher it would never ever have gotten to the public. My 10 year old son writes so much better. The characters are one dimensional. The dialogue is ludicrous and poorly written. The story is boring and riduclous. I have read all of Patterson's books. This is by far, one of the worst books I have read in a very long time.
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Summary: An ex-Patterson fan from PA
Review: I am so upset that I bought this book before I read these reviews! It is the most elementary narrative and plot I have ever read. If you take out the few unacceptable words and copulation scenes it would be a poorly written book for elementary students. I only read it because I invested my money in it and was hoping that something unexpected might happen to bring the plot to an acceptable level--it did not. My bookshelf will not support this stupid book and I will certainly not just assume that a future book by James Patterson is worth my time and money.
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