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Summary: enjoyable and easy reading
Review: I enjoyed this book...was a fast reading book without the offensive language in so many other books
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Summary: shallow and cliched
Review: i have never read a mary higgins clark, so i am not comparing carol higgins clark with her mom. but i love detective series fiction, and my daughter gave me this for xmas. i wanted to like it to make my little girl happy, but i couldn't. boy, was it dull. the problem with this story is that these types of books depend on a strong central character, one you want to follow book after book after book, and regan reilly has no personality, no depth, no character, nothing. i knew nothing about her at the beginning of the book, and now that i have finished, i still know nothing about her. she is a cipher. she's not even very smart, or a good detective. she just kind of reacts to things around her, without drawing too many conclusions unless they're shoved under her nose. in addition, the wit is cliched and some of the segments are downright insulting to the intelligence. when carol saw fit to explain to readers who the coppertone girl was, i wanted to slam the book shut in disgust. does she think we live under a rock? and when one of the characters says "world wide web, here i come," i was mortified. what real person says that when they're about to log on to the web? the characters in the book make jokes that aren't funny -- and observations that aren't interesting or original -- and then laugh uproariously. the forced jollity is irritating. you want a good detective to follow? read james lee burke, dennis lehane, james ellroy, stuart woods. you want good, genuinely witty crime stories? read donald westlake. the only thing carol higgins clark does well is funny names: chaplain wickham tinka, bettina tinka, hilda tinka, ms. snookfuss. these are like preston sturges characters. but funny names don't make a good book. carol higgins clark is a waste of time.
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Summary: stupid and boring
Review: I saw Ms. Clark on a talk show and decided to give one of her books a try. Yech! The characters are completely unpleasant, their motivations stupid (because I think it's lucky!! C'mon!) The ending is wholly unsatisfying. The main character we come to really dislike is given an undeserving reprieve at the end, while characters we had no feelings about at all are punished. Regan Reilly is a lousy detective with no personality. As a die-hard country music fan, I thought I'd like this book, but it's obvious Ms. Clark knows nothing about the industry and gave us fans nothing to like. In short, the book seems written on about the fifth grade level and, were it not for the unneccesary twists, inneuendo, and too many characters to keep track of, an 11-year old might enjoy it.
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Summary: Clark a fun author
Review: Most of you people didn't even get it! Carol is not trying to be like her mother and shouldn't and doesn't deserve to be compared to her mother. They write totally different. Carol is an entertaining author with a good grasp on mixing humor and mystery. Not all mystery has to be deep, dark and foreboding and Carol is not trying to be. She writes well and Twanged is a great new edition to her Regan Reilly series. I caught myself snickering a lot. It is a thoroughly enjoyable good read and a welcome change from more serious fare and those who think it was bad or juvenile just don't know how to enjoy a funny book. Go back to reading something dark and gory and let the rest of us have fun.
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Summary: Great book--extremely enjoyable
Review: This book is probably my favorite one out of the Regan Reilly mystery series. It's fun to read, has great characters, and good suspense at the end. I recommend this book (and all her others)!
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