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Summary: GREAT!!
Review: You haven't read this book yet? What are you waiting for.
I have this book and have bought it for my friends. They all have given this book 5 stars. Page turner. Can't put it down.
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Summary: What Kat Thinks
Review: I have read almost all of Sheldon's books, and I enjoyed this one the most. It will keep you on your toes, and is full of suprises. There are many different characters in the book, and all have very interesting backrounds and details unique to them. The book starts with a flash back, and as the story goes on, you find out how it ties in to the rest of the book. The ending is one that you would never guess, and it will leave you breathless.
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Summary: Sheldon is surely a master
Review: This book together with If Tomorrow Comes ranks among the best of popular fiction. Sheldon is a master storyteller that grabs our attention and he knows how to get his readers involved in the story.
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Summary: Master of the game is AWESOME
Review: Sidney sheldon is one of the greatest thrillers ever. People of all ages can understand and enjoy his(some ppl actually think sheldon is a woman) books. He doesn't bore u with stupid details like tom clancy etc. but the plot always turns out to be entertainingly complicated. and this novel sure is one of those. other good ones by the same guy are "doomsday Conspiracy", "rage of angels" and "windmills of the gods".
Akhil Punnoose
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Summary: A good story with a special historic touch
Review: I loved this book. The main character is a strong woman who wants to have control over all areas of her life, and definitely overdoes it at times, falling into the tempation to control the lives of those around her, as well. But despite that, the reader will find her fashinating and enticing, probably because of all the had to go through, the environment she grew up in, and the story and character of both her parents. This is accomplished by carefully including a description of what was going on in the world in the different periods, giving this book a touch of historic novel without making it boring (as most historic novels are) and enriching the character of new traits by showing how she was involved with the various things happening, like wars, apartheid (the character is SouthAfrican), etc. What comes out is a very real character, with her good traits and her flaws, that the reader will love especially because it's real - but with those traits that make her just special enough to be the "heroine" of the book. Everything else that happens, involving her family, is touching, scary, often thrilling - but at the end it all evolves around her, once again, because she does have control of all areas of her life and those involved. A really fascinating book that will take you to places and times you probably never lived in before, and will make you think, too.
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Summary: Really good!
Review: This book is the best book after 'memories of midnight'.
Worth reading.
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Summary: A Good Book
Review: Am enthralling book with a long but very interesting story line ranging over four generations. A book worth reading by all Sidney Sheldon Fans.
If you want a book you simply cannot put down, go to Sidney Sheldon.
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Summary: one of the best
Review: I read this book years ago and it still stays with me as one of the best novels I've read.I recommended it to my sister who hardly ever reads and she was hooked.She couldn't stop talking about it.Now she is a Sidney Sheldon fan.I found the story fast moving and had characters that you loved and hated.Highly recommended.The movie was good too.
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Summary: If you loved Dallas
Review: Sidney Sheldon brought you Gilligan's Island. He brought you I Dream of Jeannie. And he brought you the Master of the Game.
Is this some parlor tricks, some scientific solution, or some Kentucky windage? Remind me not to think too hard about it.
It's like that book "To Serve Man" on Twilight Zone. Hmmm... This novel reads like a TV script without as much dialogue. The plot is everything. Characters are extremely stereotyped. And I'm not trying to knock Sheldon, because this is his conscious style. In TMOTG, when a guy is a tough hero, he is a tough hero. When he is a sodomite Greek playboy, that's all he is. The essence of the novel is extremes. The McGregors are one-noters. The founder of the dynasty is one tough and lucky and smart mule. He steals his initial fortune, then just happens to be the smartest businessman in the country, and multiplies it. However, he is the stupidest lover on earth. He has a woman who can give him everything, and he ignores her while going awhorin' nightly. Except when he gets drunk, gets her preggers, and then obsesses for ownership of the progeny, who turn out to be one-noters too. Always the head of the class, always getting straight As, they are either cut out to take over the business empire, or determined to never touch it. After all, they have some other precious talent, art or music, that can't be buried. What a gene pool Jamie MacGregor must have come from. Really, this gets kind of boring, and I'm glad the novel ended after only 495 pages. It was just launching a new one-noter into the plot, and I didn't feel like sticking around. But Sheldon was merciful, and he ended it. His convenient glossing and whitewashing of the terrible white racism of South Africa beats the ease with which the Dallas writers dispensed with it. Of course, everybody is racist except our "good guys". And even though they are fabulously rich, they are not rich enough to stop their fellow countrymen from running over the "lower races" - but be sure they will try to help one or two who have been personal friends in times past. "Some of my best friends are colored" - one line I would have cringed to see in print, was not here - thanks SS. This is a LCD book - it sells to the lowest common denominator of IQ. I give it 3 stars only because it's good at this. It aims low and succeeds.
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Summary: book review
Review: This book was about Kate Blackwell's family story. It starts present-day, with Kate thinking back to her father, how he started everything. The story then takes you back to the 1880s, Jamie McGregor's time (Kate's father) His ambitious nature takes him across half the world, from Scotland to Africa, in hope of finding diamonds. He sets out on the dangerous journey, with very little money, and a lot of hope. He gets there, and goes through a lot, but one day, he suddenly finds a bunch of huge diamonds, but gets cheated out of his share, because he made an unfair deal with a dishonest partner. His "partner" also beats him nearly to death and he swears revenge when he finally recovers. He makes his "partner" 's daughter (Margaret) fall in love with him, impregnates her, then lets her have all the humiliation by dumping her off. But when Margaret shows up one day on his doorstep, with his new son, he soon falls in love with his son, and agrees to marry her. A couple years later, he also fathers a daughter (Kate). But then his son gets killed, and he goes into depression, and dies. Kate's mom raises her, and Kate falls in love with a man named David Blackwell. They get married, and have a son named Tony, but then David dies in a war, and Kate continues to build the empire started by her father. Tony grows up and wants to become a painter, but Kate has other plans for him. She needs an heir to her empire, and so through manipulation and deceit, she leads Tony into thinking he has no talent whatsoever. Tony is crushed by this, and goes to work for the company. He gets married, and has twin daughters, but his wife dies, and his grief over his dead wife causes him to go crazy. His two daughters, Eve and Alex, grow up to be gorgeous young ladies; but while Alex is pure and kind, Eve is deceitful and manipulative. Kate at first sets her mind on letting Eve take over the whole business, but then finds that Eve is too evil for her own good, and tries to disinherit her. Eve is outraged, so she plans the murder of her sister and grandmother, so she can have everything for herself. But the murder ends up unsuccessful, and the story goes back to Kate, looking at all these events, at 91 years old. The only hope she has now, is on little Robert, Alex's child. She refuses to give up until she finds an heir to control the whole company. This book was so good, that I finished it in one day. It's full of action, and it's never boring. You wont be able to put it down till you're finished with it.
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