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Summary: FANTASTIC as usual!!!
Review: This book was great. The plot keeps going on, and leaves you wondering if your first theory was right or wrong. Point of Origin kept me captivated as the story put me in the moods of each charactor. To be scarred, laughing, and crying in one book is amazing. Way to go Ms. Cornwell!!
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Summary: Tiresome, with recycled villans
Review: The book is loaded with all the scientific mumbo jumbo and law enforcement acronyms, ERT, ESA, ... Although I am familiar with her style of writing, having read most of her books, I found myself having to go back and forth trying to find out the explanation for all the acronyms she threw at the reader. Her novel is loaded with references to all kinds of brand name goods. Kay Scarpetta is full of self-adulation and self importance and can't seeem to see anyone but herself. The plot is old and ill conceived, just as the bad guys are. The author spent a of time building up the "plot" describing unneccessary things, talking too much about her neice, but tied up all the loose ends in a page. It is obvious that the bad guys will crop up in the next novel. I started reading her novels a few years back because of the fact that I liked Kay Scarpetta and that the novels were written from an unusual perspective, i.e. the medical examiner. Benson's role in the book seem to fulfill the need to have a romantic side for Scarpetta. This book was terribly disappointing.
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Summary: Annoyed by reader
Review: Alhtough I enjoyed reading the book, I have not enjoyed the listening to the audio version as read by Kate Reading. I can't tell if Reading has a British accept or just pronounces long "o's" (her "home" rhymes with "whom") unusually, but Scarpetta was born in Florida and has spent most of her life in the south, and the accept is off-putting to me. Plus she overaccentuates almost every consonant. IMHO.
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Summary: Scarpetta is a complainer
Review: I gave up on Cornwell several books ago, but picked this one up at the library for one more shot. My initial annoyance with the heroine was that she is such a belly-acher: ain't it awful what I have to do, dealing with dead bodies and all. I disliked the token love story with Wesley, who had a perfectly nice wife and family, as being introduced for people who are more interested in sex than in mysteries. Her preoccupation with her niece is obsessive. So I find that this book is worse in all the above. If Kay Scarpetta finds her job so disagreeable, why doesn't she just quit and do something else? I'd like to see a positive attitude here. I am not dazzled by all the techno-garbage. Let's have a heroine I can care about. Scarpetta, resign and get a job in a factory and let Lucy live her own life.
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Summary: Fast-paced, excellent dialogue, attention to detail! Superb
Review: This was my first Cornwell book. I don't usually get into mystery books, but I loved this one! The graphic descriptions of the crime scene, excellent dialogue, and detail transported me as a reader to the setting of the book! After the first couple of chapters, I couldn't put it down, but I tried to pace myself, because I didn't want it to end! Excellent work! I will be back for more of PC's book!
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Summary: The last Scarpetta-novel I'll read.
Review: Point of Origin was the last drop for me. I am now so sick and tired of the 'heroine' that I can hardly stomach another try. The touchy-feely writing and the hugely dissapointing ending of this book is too much. I have read all of Cornwell's books, and have enjoyed some of them, but this is it. And I say that WITH FEELING!
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Summary: Lazy writing, moderately interesting plot
Review: Ms Cornwall is getting very lazy... her style is now reduced to laying on the mood with a trowel, foreshadowing events so clearly that you wonder why you continue reading. She's clearly getting rid of some personal enmity toward the FBI in this book, which rather spoils the mystery itself. Following the poor quality of "Unnatural Causes," she's going to have to pull her socks up pretty quickly if she hopes to retain her readers.
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Summary: Again!
Review: I have thought that every Patricia Cornwell novel I have read was amazing, especially this one. Her topics hit home, her details are amazing. She writes out of expoerience. Point of Origin was espcially intriguing because of the characters and setting. PC twists and turns through out her writing and continues to keep me on my toes. I have pre-ordered her next novel and can not wait until it arrives. She is my all time favorite author. I reccommend her books to everyone.
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Summary: The plot that keeps you begging for more
Review: Once again Patricia Cornwell has out done herself. This was the best book that I have ever read. Patricia's vivid imagination, and use of detail was the heart and soul to this book. The characters made you feel as if you were a part of the book, and experiencing every incident that happened. The battle between good and evil is a never ending saga. Once you are done with this book you will finally feel that the fight is over.
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Summary: I wanted to read slowly hoping the book wouldn't end.
Review: The minute a Kay Scarpeta book hits the book stores I'm there! Cornwell is outstanding! Each one is better than the last, if that's possible.
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