The Pilot's Wife : A Novel

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Summary: Great read anytime
Review: Every wife's terror. How little we really know about each other--great one liners, particularly near the end. "A dedicated adulter causes no suspicion...because he truly does not want to be caught."

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Summary: Very over-rated book
Review: Disappointing. After all of the Oprah hoopla I thought thisbook would be a great purchase. It wasn't, it was just average stuff. At least I ordered it along with the Harry Potter books for my 12 year old and The Triumph and Glory, which my dad bragged up, and they were all very good. You win some and you lose some. The Pilot's Wife was just too much of a chick book for me to get into I guess.

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Summary: A big waste of time -disappointed in Oprah
Review: Don't waste your time on this one, its chief merit being that is is easy to read, but so is Danielle Steele. The plot is absurd and the characters are banal and unbelievable, and to top it off, Shreve throws in the IRA. Give me a break! In the end, the reader has no inkling what motivated any of the characters in their ultimately crazy lives. but then, who cares?

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Summary: Mindnumbingly unrealistic
Review: Totally ridiculous to imagine that the extremely uninteresting Kathryn takes her husband's death so lightly as to brush off her daughter's sex life and start flirting with the man hired to investigate! And just when it started to become a slight bit interesting (postulating how a man could manage two families), Shreve throws in the IRA bit.... why? Just to appeal to a different demography of readers? Really, Oprah, your book choices are usually excellent. You must have been distracted during the hour and a half it took to get through this after-school-special.

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Summary: The concept promised more than it offered
Review: Lightweight and promised more than it offered. A good concept that lends itself to another go.

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Summary: slow going from the beginning--but got better toward the end
Review: Very dull & boring from the beginning, from the previous reviews I read I really thought it was going to be a good book. I was very disappointed Actually the last half of the book was good. (two last words) dry & blah!

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Summary: Fiction is one thing; this was preposterous!
Review: Oprah's standard's mustn't be very high. I was quite disappointed. The book started off suspensefully enough, but the plot became totally ridiculous. Fiction is one thing, but this became so silly that I lost my sympathy for Kathryn. Each character seemed stupider than the next. It was a quick, easy read , but it did not live up to the good start.

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Summary: Starts out a page turner but crash lands at the end
Review: I picked up this book based on Oprah's book club recommendation....however, in the future I will wait for others to read the selections first to determine if the book is really worthy of my time. I enjoyed the fast pace of the first half of the book, and could not put it down, however, the second half of the book crashed landed. It was flat and the plot failed to develop and was predictable like a "made for TV" movie. In the second half of the book the plot needed more "meat". However, if you have some free time and want a quick short read, you may enjoy the book.

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Summary: Add to your reading list!
Review: I read this book in 2 days, while working full time and being a full time mother (and dinner was still on the table on time!). This book is a good read, pure and simple. I will definately read more of this author's books.

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Summary: I really enjoyed the topic and story line of this novel!!!
Review: The only thing that I really didn't enjoy was that fact that it took soooo long for the story to actually get moving. I didn't like how the majority of the book was before the reader even met Muire.