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Summary: Fascinating and Intriguing Story
Review: This is the most fascinating story I have ever read. Jeffery Archer is an amazing story teller. I will also recommend sequel - the prodigal daughter.
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Summary: Description beyond all realms
Review: Simply put One of the best books I have ever read
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Summary: well written
Review: The story has been carried in a very nice way.It creates interest in a reader as the story progresses.Even suggested for reading to some of my friends who are not into reading n they agree with me.Even it has a suspense stored in it.If you really are looking for a good book then you shld definitely own this one.
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Summary: Good
Review: Good
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Summary: Gripping throughout, with a final priceless irony
Review: Quite possibly Jeffrey Archer's most accomplished work. In "Kane & Abel" he employed the literary device of a looking at his protagonists and antagonists' lives through a wide-angle lens, a device he was again to employ to great effect in "As the Crow Flies" and, more recently, in "The Fourth Estate". Where many writers show us only a few years or even a few weeks in their characters' lives (and often that is quite enough), Archer is the master of fictionalizing entire lifetimes, and making them interesting enough that we are happy to be a part of them."Kane and Abel" tells the story of two men born on the same day yet in vastly differing circumstances. William Kane is born to wealthy New York parents at the dawn of what has been called The American Century, a life full of privilege and promise stretching before him. A world away, little Wladek Koskiewicz, bastard son of a Polish baron and one of the baron's peasants, has none of Kane's early advantages; no advantages at all in fact. Wladek's family is killed in the Great War and he sets sail for America with nothing more than the scantest of birthrights, a bracelet belonging to the dead Baron through the inscriptions of which the american Immigration official incorrectly documents him as Baron Abel Rosnovski. Kane is stubborn, Abel determined; the two men cross paths repeatedly in business, each seeking to outmanoeuvre the other. Archer writes Abel as the more sympathetic character: his conscientious effort to become a better sexual partner and his later humiliation of Melanie Leroy, the daughter of his onetime business partner, are but two actions through which Archer shows us that Abel is endowed with the methodical focus and vindictiveness traditionally associated with those driven to rise above their current station in life. Kane has an early head start in the race and is portrayed more coldly. But both are men you'll never forget once you've read this book.
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Summary: A great story, and well done
Review: Two men who by some strange fate are born on the same day in 2 different parts of the world.....but destiny makes them each other's worst enemies. One a polish immigrant and the other the son of a bostonian millionaire heir of a large fortune.. The life struggle as both men try to outwit each other.. A tale of ambition,power,struggle,lust blends all aspects. The climax is sure to melt your hearts away it was unbelievable. If anyone can guess the ending without reading it i'd be surprised. A must read novel!!Don't miss it!
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Summary: Not so impressive
Review: Several of my coworkers read this book recently, so I thought why not, I'll read it too. I have to say that I was very unimpressed. My biggest problem is that I found the story line way too predictable. It was very obvious that certain things were going to happen and that the author was setting the stage. It has a few small surprises, but overall, not very impressive. Maybe my hopes were too high. Nevertheless, I don't intend to read any other novels by the author.
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Summary: An epic tale
Review: Kane & Abel was the first Archer novel I ever read. Ever since, it has become one of my all-time favorites. It is an excellent tale detailing the lives of two men from exactly opposite stations of life and how each man builds a fortune, helps the other (without knowledge of the other) and finally tries to destroy each other. A classic, it is an absorbing page-turner. If asked to use one word to describe the book, I would say 'UNPUTDOWNABLE'. And if asked to use two words for anyone who hasn't read this bestseller yet, I would day 'Read it!'
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Summary: Great!
Review: I found the novel very well written. It's a real page-turner!
Of course it's not a very profound story but it keeps you interested until the very last page.
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Summary: Good start, slow ending
Review: Kane & Abel is the story of two men born in the same day, thousands of miles apart. One is extremely rich, the other has a childhood of poverty, emprisionment and doubts. They meet in America under special circumstances, ans their lives will never be the same again. The beggining of the book is very good and well written, in a psychological way, to say the least. Archer is able to show the reader the early life of William and Wladek using a system that alternates chapters between his two main characters. However, after they meet, the story seems to get a little too futile, each character trying only to destroy the other's life. I thought this was very shallow. And the fact that their children get together is a punch-line so beaten that I can only understand that it was Archer's hook to write another novel, "The prodigal daughter". William and Abel got old too quickly, and the final quarter of the book, where they are older men, has too many events, poorly dealt with. Also, the ending was unsattisfatory, but again I must suppose that he was already thinking about the sequel when he wrote the final passages of "Kane & Abel". I rate this book four stars for the early chapters.
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