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Summary: loved the audio book
Review: I was going on the road for a six hour round trip and in search of the 2nd installment from Stephen King's Dark Tower series on audio book from my local library. I had just finished Patricia Cornwell's Post Mortem in paper back and was starting to become a fast friend of Dr Kay Scarpetta. So when I couldn't get Stephen King, I tried The Body Farm audio book and .... WOW I was hooked. The narrator's voice was very compelling...the story was riveting...and I found myself driving around the block in my car to finish a chapter. I am now trying to catch up with the other Patricia Cornwell books...and I will list this one at the top of my recommended reading list. For me, who frequents the library so that I won't go broke buying the two to three books I read a week.. I WILL buy this book for my personal collection. Patricia Cornwell has a great style, great details, characters that you will love to read about, and careful details of the people and places in the geographical areas she writes about. I am from Tennessee..and the Southern references ring true to me.
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Summary: Only Paid a Buck for the Book
Review: If you can find this book used and need kindling to start a fire, then I could recommend this book. I was lucky enough to only invest a buck in this book. Authors who write in the first person shouldn't; those whose protagonists use or otherwise have to interface with computers ought to spend a little more time understanding the terminology.
I realize that this book was published in the middle 90s, but the author's command of computers and the incipient internet seemed as though she had spent an evening with one of her friends doing her research over cocktails. No clue..
..it was at that point that this book became kindling.
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Summary: One of my Favorite Patricia Cornwell Books
Review: It is exciting, fast moving, thrilling and keeps you on the edge of your seat. I love the depth in which Patricia Cornwell delves into her characters - we've seen Benton and Marino up close and personal, at their best and at their worst, now it's our turn to see Lucy. As is her usual approach, the characters are colorful and dramatic (can you see Pete Marino in any other light?).With this title, I wasn't sure what I was picking up to read -- it gave me the mental image of a Frankenstein type book. The Body Farm is actually a research facility in Tennessee where Scarpetta discovers gruesome experiments that may lead to answering her questions and to finding Gault. So my original assessment from just the title wasn't too far off base. With Cornwell writing it, you can be assured of a wild and exciting ride. Definitely a recommended addition to your Kay Scarpetta library!
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Summary: An average book
Review: Readers of a series of books such as the Kay Scarpetta series may become oblivious to the flaws in the series and they read book after book. The Body Farm is the first book I've read by Cornwell and it has its strengths and many weaknesses.
Since I haven't read any Scarpetta books, its hard to decide where to begin a series. I chose the body farm because of the plot described on Amazon. An 11 year old girl is found murdered in the woods and the FBI is trying to solve the crime. The opening scene with all involved personal discussing the crime is quite interesting.
Then Scarpetta, her married lover Benton Wesley and Captain Marino travel to the town of the crime to try and solve it. Cornwell throws in a character from a past novel Temple Gault as a possible suspect, but that never rings true because he never gets enough development to be a suspect in this book. The fun part of the book was try to sift through the evidence to find out what actually happened to the little girl.
The downside of the book is the niece Lucy, who is a lesbian, and who really cares about her internship. An investigation into Lucy's work at the FBI is stretched to tie into the case of the dead little girl, but most of it is there just to stretch the length of the book.
Cornwell does little to establish the characters in this book, so I have no sympathy or reason to know why Scarpetta is sleeping with a married man or why Wesley is cheating on his wife. He seems like a jerk who is leading Scarpetta along just to get some action on the side.
The actual "Body Farm" has little to do with the novel. The ending and the identity of the actual killer happens to quickly or to easily. The only think we hear about the killer is Scarpetta's fears of how she is scared of this "evil" person. Since we don't learn of the evil first hand, its hard to feel to much about what happens at the end.
Sometimes when you read a series you feel like you have to read all the books in the series because it is so good. The Scarpetta series had its chance and blew it, because the Body Farm isn't that good of a book.
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Summary: The Body Farm
Review: The Body Farm is a well developed book that I trully recomend. It's characters, setting, and plots are well developed. The Body Farm is an interesting and exicting crime book that once you start reading it it will leave you on suspense, and makes you keep on going to the next chapter. Cornwell's books are truly an inspiracion for those people who have any kind of fear on crimes. It also makes people see crime in a different way. The Body Farm is one of the best books I'v ever read. I gave it 5 stars, because I really think that any reader shouldn't miss this book.
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Summary: Not her best
Review: This was an entertaining book, but definitely not one of her best. The characters didn't feel real somehow, and although the story line had good possibilities, somehow it never came to much in the end afer all. I expected more somehow.
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Summary: First Cornwell book
Review: This was the first I have read of Patricia Cornwell, but it will not be the last. I picked it up used and figure it was a bargain. When I started it I was at a Dr's office waiting and couldn't wait to get home to finish it. Actually I couldn't sleep and read all night and did finish it that very night. I can't wait to go back and start the first of the series.
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