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Summary: Viscerally a very disturbing read
Review: Patterson has found a way to disturb readers which is beyond the skills of most authors. To think about not only one, but two serial kidnappers/rapists/murderers, seriously upset this 17 year old high school boy. Alex Cross is one of the most realistic fictional detectives ever. He has lapses in judgment, just like real people, and the way he sometimes forgets something just as he needs to remember it is so true to life. Kate McTiernan is one of the most heart-rending stories in modern fiction. Hers is a highly endearing character; her toughness, her strength of will in situations that would break the strongest of us, her anti-narcissism, all of them engender not only our sympathy and compassion, but also our affection and admiration: we love her from the moment we meet her. Patterson has a way of keeping us on the edge of our seats; he makes us need to see that Casanova and the Gentleman Caller are not just in jail, but are dead. Anyone such as Casanova (or the Gentleman Caller), who would consciously use something that is so special to a woman as her beauty and her sexuality, and make her loath it and wish it were not, while saying that he loves her, is an unspeakably evil person who needs to physically, emotionally, and psychologically feel the psychological, emotional, and physical torment of his victims. That statement is a basic truth of our emotional need for justice, and the scenario in this book intensifies that need for justice: The way in which the scenario plays out is what elevates this book far above even the excellence with which it was written. The most horrifying part of this book may be what is implicit from the content of the book: That there are actually people out there like Casanova and his friend the Gentleman caller. Another creepy thing about this book is that it is indeed a book, which means that all the images that the book produces are produced by your own mind. To love someone and to have them taken away from you is one of the most crushing things a person can endure. But to know that they are being kept against their will and repeatedly raped would be even more excruciating. This book succeeds in tapping that protective instinct that we all have. The fast pace of this book grabs hold of your emotions, but it is you that can't let them go. You won't want to put this one down.
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Summary: KEEPS YOU ON YOUR TOES!
Review: I enjoy James Patterson's style of writing, keeping the chapters short and effective; making this a fast paced thriller, which really keeps you on your toes. I did watch the movie, but I suggest reading the book first, since so much detail and depth of the characters were lost in the movie. If you like a good page-turner, kiss the girls is the one!
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Summary: Movie/Book Differences
Review: Being a movie nut, I love to see the differences between movies and thier respective novels. This one I particularly enjoyed reading. The Screenwriter definitely did a wonderful job of interpreting the novel. One thing I thought was interesting was that in the ALEX CROSS novels, we always meet his family. In the novel, it briefly mentions his aunt, never showing his kids. Also, I must say that the movie depicts a better ending -- that being more suspencfull. I can sum up this whole review by saying that the movie "tightens" up the action that spans the novel. The book "expands", leaving room for lots of detail and more scenes -- because that's exactly how you read this book, in short two-page chapters which ultimatly read like scenes in a movie. Loved it!
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Summary: Hire an editor, please....
Review: This is an amateurishly written book with plot holes that you could throw Alex Cross, Nana and Sampson through. Plenty of other reviewers have noted Kate McTiernan's blue/brown/blue/brown eye problem, the fact that no search is conducted in the area that she is found after escaping from the "disappearing house", and the incredible ineptness of the FBI in their stakeout of the Gentleman Caller. How about a complete failure to check the phone records of the Gentleman Caller? Seems like a really reasonable thing to do considering the "twinning" aspect of the novel. What about Kyle Craig? Alex Cross repeatedly wonders what the head of the FBI is doing at the scene of the investigations. Guess what? Patterson never sees fit to address this question. And what was the point of the milk/snake/sphincter scene except to disgust the reader? At least Cross didn't get confused about whether he's a psychologist or a psychiatrist (something no one with either professional title would do) as he did in "Along Came a Spider". The writing is grade school level, with laughable descriptive technique. If Patterson could actually write his books would be much more enjoyable. Come on, did Naomi really need to be nicknamed "Scootchie"? Free advice for Mr. Patterson: find a good, critical editor and heed that person's advice.
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Summary: Pathetic - Save yourself the money
Review: While I was reading this my husband was reading Jack and Jill - our consensus - both awful. We didn't even read each other's book (fortunately we didn't spend money on them - we could just return them to the library). The book's only redeeming feature is that it's fast paced, but the ending was disappointing. This book was beyond R rating for me and R is definitely my limit. We just discovered Richard North Patterson (again we each had one and we thoroughly enjoyed both).
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Summary: Patterson creeps me out here
Review: Sometimes it's really creepy how some authors get into the heads of psychopaths. Here is an excellent example. Read this disturbing novel. The short chapters and compelling story will have you through this one in no time.
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Summary: Spell Binding
Review: Could not put the book down. Kept my interest from beginning to end
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Summary: Patterson...Point Blank
Review: Kiss The Girls was the first James Patterson book I read. I had to buy it knowing that the movie version of books are loosley similar. The book was much better than the movie. I had to go out and buy the other books and I have awaited the new books coming out. James Patterson is a great author. I recommend his books to anyone seeking a thriller.
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Summary: No words are foul enough to describe it
Review: I find it disturbing that so many people have given this book the highest rating, because if any book in the whole history of bookdom deserves to be given a subzero-stars rating, this would be it. This book is the "Plan 9 from Outer Space" of thrillers. You cannot even say that the plot has holes, because it isn't solid enough to have holes in it. The author expects us to believe no end of absurdities,for example, the "mind-bending" mystery of the "disappearing house," which can be guessed by anyone with a modicum of brains or imagination. And then there is the girl who did not escape a fate worse than death but at least she did escape from being killed in a manner most disagreeable and distasteful. You would expect her to make herself scarce, but nooo, she insists on going back to her house, from where she was taken, so we know that the rapist/killer knows where she lives. And it is not as if she lived in a well-lighted building with round-the-clock surveillance and lots of people around. No, she lives in an old, half-abandoned house full of dark corners and in the middle of nowhere, and no one thinks of placing her under surveillance, and the lights on the street don't work properly, and guess who comes a-calling! Well, I know it is a hard guess, but I'll give you a clue, it ain't Abbott and Costello. Not to mention that Mr. Patterson belongs to the literary school of "Descriptions are Difficult, and besides, they are Boring." You know that when instead of taking the trouble to describe a character, he just says he or she looks like some old celebrity. So, we are told that the Gentleman Caller looks like "U2 singer Bono," and a prospective victim looks like "a young Grace Kelly," and so on. Well, it is just as well, because when he actually gets to describe a character's appearance, he cannot keep it consistent till the end of the book. So Kate's eyes mysteriously change color somewhere along the line. Well, maybe she lost her colored contacts or something. Small wonder, with all her traipsing through disappearing houses and stuff. And should I mention the absurdly clichéd characters? And the sloppy, amateurish writing? Ah, why bother? I hope you've got the pct. by now. Mr. Patterson, never again.
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Summary: Crazy,pscychotic,yet an allright book
Review: It was an ok book,but makes me think what kind of person writes these books.
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