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Summary: FAIR
Review: I AM NOT A BIG DANIELLE STEEL FAN, ALTHOUGH NOW AND THEN SHE WRITES A BOOK THAT'S GOOD FOR MINDLESS, SUMMER BEACH READING. GHOST WAS BETTER THAN SOME OF MORE RECENT COOKIE CUTTER BOOKS. I LIKED THE STORY WITHIN THE STORY THAT DEALT WITH SARAH FERGUSEN BETTER THAN CHARLIE'S STORY. EVEN SO, I REALLY DO NOT SEE A LOT OF DEPTH IN ANY OF THE CHARACTORS IN MOST OF MS. STEEL'S BOOKS, THIS ONE INCLUDED. BUT WHAT DO I KNOW? HER BOOKS ARE ALWAYS ON THE BEST SELLER LIST.
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Summary: BRAVO!
Review: This is without a doubt one of the best books that i have ever read. I read many books, and this one had me in it's grasp for three days straight. The beginning of this books is VERY slow...so slow that i put the book aside, until i was told by a friend that i HAD to finish it. Once you get past the slow start, you will not be able to put this book down!
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Summary: Setting close to home...
Review: I could associate with this book because the setting was in north-western Massachusetts, not far from where I live. I enjoyed the way that Steel pulled together the past (with the ghost) and the present, weaving two tails of love. I found this book not to fit the Danielle Steel norm that I have been seeing in so many of her recent books. It was nice to see that she still has some original thoughts and hasn't completely fallen into a pattern.
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Summary: The Ghost
Review: This book was the best book I have read in a long time. Every time I had a minute of spare time I found myself reading the book. She had answered all the questions I had going through my head while I was reading the book. I knew everything was going to change once she had Charlie go to New York and he wound up in Illinois. He forgot(not totally) about his ex-wife in London and met someone new that he spent a lot of time with. He also spent a lot of time reading journals from a lady who lived in the house that Charlie is staying in. He felt like he knew her just from reading all of her journals.
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Summary: The Ghost
Review: Danielle Steel used a totally different form of writing on "The Ghost." I enjoyed that. Ususally her characters are so predicitable, but she surprised me this time. I read it in two days and could hardly put it down. Hopefully, she will continue to broaden her characters and give the rich, beautiful and famous a rest.
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Summary: The Ghost
Review: Is an awesome love story written by Danielle Steel. I'm not much into romance stories, but this one was definitely the exception. I couldn't put it down, I loved it from beginning to end.
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Summary: Love ends... and begins again...
Review: Danielle Steel touched upon many of our fears and hesitations in real life within the pages of "The Ghost"."The Ghost" is a story of a man [Charlie] who is trying to get over the pain and loneliness of his in-process divorce from his wife [Carol]. Charlie, still hurt by his wife who had an affair and left him for an older man, finds himself wounded and filled with more questions than answers. Even Charlie's job talks him into working in N.Y. City, which he hates, and finds that his professional life in N.Y. no longer provides any comfort or happiness for him. Taking some time off, Charlie finds himself in the small town of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. Here he rents a house believed to be haunted. Within these "haunted" walls Charlie will learn of a love story so powerful that it touches him even after the story has ended two hundred years ago. Can the old love story of Sarah Ferguson and François de Pellerin, set in the early conflicts of the Native American Indians and the United States, show Charlie how to love again? Can the lessons of Sarah Ferguson (a woman who's been beaten and battered, yet remains courageous and strong) teach Charlie how to breach the seemingly impenetrable walls around the heart of Francesca Vironnet, another woman who has given up on love... given up on Hope... just like Charlie? Can a ghost from the past still teach us all how to love again... how to keep the Faith and have Hope? I simply loved this book. One of her best! Both Danielle Steel and Sarah Ferguson teach us all, by example, that we should never let our hearts turn cold... never let the cruelty and pain of past loves destroy our futures... always have Faith... never lose Hope... and above all they teach us... That love ends... and begins again.
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Summary: The Ghost
Review: This is a classic story of rejection and love found. One gets caught up in this twisty tale of life now and life past. I throughly enjoyed the story. One of only a few to actually get so wrapped up in the story to feel the great joy, and to cry right along with!!
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Summary: Captivating...
Review: Well, this is the first audio book I have purchased. Friends in the past have recommended Steel's books to me, but I was afraid that her complex novels would be way over my head. To ease myself into the world of Steel, I purchased "The Ghost" on audiocassette. Veteran actor Robert Stack reads the text. Although I enjoyed my purchase, there are a few comments on the manner of presentation chosen I would like to make. Stack appears to be drinking while reading the book. The sounds of glasses clinking and drinks pouring are fully audible. Nothing seems to be edited off this tape. In fact I lost count how many times I heard a toilet flush, a door slam, or Stack falling off his chair. (Must he yell "TIMBER!" each and every time?) And the further he gets into the book, the less coherent he becomes. In chapter five, he simply starts to moo. Stack also appears to ad-lib dialog of his own into the story, and it's mostly of an adult nature. In the middle of a poignant scene in chapter six, a telephone in the recording studio starts to ring and Stack stops reading and starts screaming for someone to answer the phone. When the phone continues to ring, Stack starts to imitate the ringing phone, making his own telephone noises. He appears to be in a contest, trying to out-ring the phone. This goes on for about fifteen minutes. And at the end of chapter eight, Stacks starts to scream, inexplicably, "Where are my goggles? I need eye protection!" Anyway, if you like an audio book read with a twist, I would recommend "The Ghost" to you.
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Summary: YUCK!
Review: This is the first Danielle Steel book I've read, and it will be the last for sure! It was so boring that I had a hard time even getting from page to page. If you want a good love story set in the past read the Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon. Those books are excellent and keep you interested through over 3500 pages! Don't bother with Danielle Steel though...she sucks.
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