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Summary: Read if you're really bored
Review: Patterson seems to be helping De Jonge by putting his name on the book. It was not the typical Patterson thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat. The ending is far fetched and implausible. It's not a waste of time, but would be my last choice of Patterson novels to read.
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Summary: The Beach Dud
Review: I recently finished reading The Beach House. I was EXTREMELY disappointed. I started reading it after having finished a lengthy and complicated novel. This book was exactly the opposite. It was as if the author was spoonfeeding his audience the plot. The too short chapters read like some screenplay. I won't blow the ending for you but c'mon! The characters were either all good or all bad. There was so empathy created for anyone and the people were flat and underdeveloped. Maybe this was a good book for those who didn't want to think about anything when they read it. Maybe it'll make a good movie.
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Summary: Reminds me of Brad Meltzer's The First Counsel
Review: Similarities - the young lawyer mixed up with really high placed bad guys (White house and corporate honchos - hmmm...how timely!) who are way out of his league. He goes on the lam until he's able to turn the tables and take his revenge for having his life ruined by them. The other similarity is that the main charactor is too shallow to make me care about what happens to him. Blah!
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Summary: A POWERFUL READING OF PATTERSON AT HIS PEAK
Review: Bestselling author James Patterson hits pay dirt again with another co-authored thriller, The Beach House, in which a Columbia University Law student, Jack Mullen, sets out to avenge the murder of his younger brother. Gil Bellow, star of TV's "The Agency" and a cast member of "Ally McBeal" gives riveting reading of this who-dun-it-and-why set in Long Island, home of the wealthy and wannabes. When Jack is informed of his brother's death the police report that Peter was drowned. It's obvious to Jack that Peter was beaten - not by the waves.
With the assistance of an attractive female private detective and some friends Jack sets out to find revenge and truth. It seems Peter was involved in surprising ways with some of the richest folks around. Thus, Jack's quest pits him against money and power. "The Beach House" is Patterson at his popular peak, and Gil Bellows in a powerful performance. - Gail Cooke
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Summary: TWO GREAT WRITERS TOGETHER
Review: I COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN,PATTERSONS BEST BOOK BY FAR.BEACH HOUSE KEEPS YOU GOING BACK FOR MORE.MUCH BETTER THEN 2ND CHANCE.
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Summary: Stuck at the Train Station? Read This!
Review: Hi. This is a book about rich people and poor people and how they do not get along, and if they do get along the entire balance of the world is thrown off. The idea is not terrible original, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. When the basis of a book is easy to understand it allows the author (or authors, in this case) room to explore the underlying causes and gives them a chance to experiment. Unfortunately, neither Patterson or De Jonge to that. This is a by-the-numbers thriller. Sort of like a Lifetime movie or one of those movie of the weeks they used to put on tv. Reading this book, I got the impression that Patterson was putting his name on something to help out his friend De Jonge. I may be wrong, but I may be right. I was stuck at a train station for ten hours, so I do not think this book was a waste of my time. If you are in a similar situation, read this and you'll pass the time faster than reading the bathroom walls.
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Summary: great summer reading
Review: The Beach House is a great book for summer reading. It keeps you peeled to the pages wondering what's going to happen next! I'd definitely put this one on your list of "must reads" for the summer of 2002!
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Summary: Great pool book
Review: Being from Long Island NY & currently living in Atlanta GA, I really enjoyed the Beach House. Great book to read by the pool or on the beach. The ending is great!
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Summary: A great disappointment!
Review: The plot was shallow, the characters not developed well, and the double spaced large type and empty pages convinced me that this was a case of fooling the reader into buying a real book. Very amateurish, not at all like other Patterson books. Do we get a refund for no customer satisfaction?
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Summary: Best JP novel yet!
Review: I was refreshed that this was a novel without 'Alex Cross'. And the suprising ending was GREAT!
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