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Summary: Another great Scarpetta novel starring Kay Scarpetta!
Review: Patricia Cornwell does well with her forensic thrillers. Good story and plot formation. Thrilling suspense and graphic details.
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Summary: poorly written book about a forensic pathologist
Review: This is the second book I have read that is written by Cornwell and it will be the last. The poorly written story involves a forensic pathologist who has all the modern conviences at her fingertips except an author with decent writing skills. One example,(although not the worst)"I rested my head, and the stubble on his chin roughed my hair and was white like the beach I knew I would not see this week." Do editors even bother to read this pap? Don't waste your $$ on this trash. However, if you are really desperate to read Cornwell - check the book out of the library.
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Summary: Gory, Gripping, Ungrammatical, but I loved it!
Review: I empathised with Kay's growing older and like me, her language gets worse with age. I became increasingly bored with selfish and spoilt Lucy. I was itching to give her a slap! I was fascinated with Marino's Christmas Lights fetish, it's widespread in the UK, we've got some of those in Dudley. Benton is (was) a cardboard cutout character - what a great and gruesome way to finish him off! Even Kay's poor mother has had disfiguring surgery. Now come on Patricia, you can do even better with Lucy in the next novel, no-one knows how to suffer like our Kay! Overall, I thought this book was the most interesting so far, full of snippets about fire and forensics and helicopters. In short I thought it was a highly entertaining read.
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Summary: Compelling, sad book.
Review: I could identify with the lead character, who is aging and becoming somewhat disillusioned with her earlier goals and ideals. (Loved the purse full of Immodium, Tums, Motrin and Aspirin.)This was a compelling read, hard to put down. However, in at least two places, I totally lost the author as to where the characters were located. One moment they were in the morgue and the next, playing Amadeus on the CD. I went back and re-read and concluded that the author just plain neglected to tell the reader that the characters had changed locations. Somewhat irritating, but still an exciting, interesting book.
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Summary: The last Cornwell book I'll ever read!
Review: I am sick of descriptions of the smell of boiling human bones and the looks of melted faces! I bought the audio book for a drive to a dog show, and the ending was so depressing, sickening, and empty. This was a stupid plot too.
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Summary: Not only bad...terrible
Review: Being a first time reader of Patricia Cornwell, I didn't know what to expect from the author. I was sorely disappointed in Point of Origin. The writing was something from a first-year college English class with a plot that left a lot to be desired. The characters had zero depth and the ending was uneventful. To me the book would only appeal to either a feminist and/or a lesbian.
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Summary: yuck!
Review: My first Cornwell novel and my last. This book was absolutely ludicrous. What a waste of trees. It was not the heinous nature of the crimes involved that bothered me. It was the lack of a cohesive plot and distinctive narrative. By the time I finished, I did not care who lived or died.
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Summary: Stop. Put it back. Go read some Conrad.
Review: I was going to Colo on a late-summer family reunion. I hate to fly. I asked a fellow teacher abt. what's good in mystery bks. these days and she said "Patricia Cornwell." I bought it and a re-issue of Raymond Chandler, but I packed Cornwell in my carry-on. She seduced me. Attractive, older, smart (an M.E.after all),committed, etc. I couldn't put it down until I wished I had. . . at the end. It pissed me off. C'mon. I followed Kay from one end of the East coast to the other; I worried with her about Lucy; I commiserated with Lucy and Benton about the FBI; and at the end I don't even get to see!!!!!!!!!!! my (our) enemy?! It's a cop-out on Cornwell's part. She's writing to get screened-up and filmed. The last scene with the helos? Right out of _________! You name it, "Lethal Weapon" Van Damme, Schwartzeneiger.But "once bitten, twice shy" no mo' money on Kay. And while I'm at it, Tom Wolfe did the same thing with "A Man In Full." What's wrong with these guys? Once they get it up, they can't keep it up till the story's over? Shi' man, it's all just chewin' gum.
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Summary: Great Reading! What's Next?
Review: This book stands up to all of Patricia Corwell's writting. I've read every book she has written and am very disappointed that she hasn't written another. The way the characters always relate to the previous book keeps you looking forward to the next. Great reading, can't wait for the another.
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Summary: Reading this book is cruel & unusual punishment
Review: I have been increasingly disappointed in Cornwell's more recent books (loved the earlier ones); Kay Scarpetta comes off as cold and humorless (What did Benton see in her anyway?), but this time Cornwell went way too far. Killing Benton off, and doing it in the gruesome way she did, was sadistic, cruel and unnecessary. Ditto, burning the stables and all those horses. The interesting thing about Scarpetta's work has been the investigation process itself. But why do the crimes themselves have to be so horrific? This is my last Cornwell book.
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