Master of the Game

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Summary: It couldn't have been better!!!!
Review: My name is Andrea and this was my first time reading a Sidney Sheldon book, and I was in no way disappointed! Much to the contrary. I had a very very hard time putting the book down, because it was so good, so gripping. Sidney Sheldon is undoubtedly my favourite author!!!!!!

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Summary: If the rating is out of 10, give this book 11.
Review: Mr.Sheldon has written a book to withstand the test of time. It is probably the best book I have read. I am seventeen, and can proudly report I read this fantastic book 3 times already.

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Summary: Master of the Game was truly th work of a master.
Review: I read this entire book in one night. I just couldn't put it down. Kate was such a strong woman, always knowing what she wanted and would stop at practically nothing to get it. She had the wealth and the prestige to do as she pleased. All through her life she did things that maybe were not to nice to get what she wanted, but in the end I think she realized that no matter how much money and recognition you get, it can't buy you everything in life

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Summary: A true "Master of the Game"
Review: The first adult novel I had ever read, "Master of the Game" was certainly a find. Well-plotted, with sharply drawn characters, Sheldon has certainly brought to life one of the most powerful characters in modern popular fiction, Kate Blackwell, who stands along side such memorable Sheldon creations as Jennifer Parker, Noelle Page, and Tracey Witney. Cetainly a difficult novel to put down, and a difficult to novel to forget. Check out the mini-series, one of the best I have ever seen. Five stars

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Summary: Have you ever strolled down the streets of Klipdrift?
Review: Tired of reading works that are just too drawn out? Then cast your weary eyes to the works of Sidney Sheldon. For starters, take an adventurous stroll down the streets of the African diamond town of Klipdrift in Master of the Game. It is the tale of how a young Scot, Jamie MacGregor journeys to Africa in search of diamonds. His ambitions are eclipsed only to be taken over by his loving yet manipulative daughter Elizabeth. All of her father's ambitions have trickled down to her, and she in turn makes a name for herself on a world wide scale. In no way is this a run-of-the-mill rags to riches, smut novel. O HO, on the contrary there is plenty for your eyes and mind to feast on as Sheldon spins his threads. You may think you know what the story's all about, but I assure you that Sheldon will show you a new twist at every turn. Master of the Game is a rich brew of ambition, sex, and manipulation that will have you begging for another glass of vintage Sheldon

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Summary: One of the best book I ever saw
Review: I read this book twice. I noticed this book after I saw a TV series in UK back to about 10 years ago. The series was very interesting to me, so I brought the book, read it and unfortuately I can't stop reading it till finish the whole book (even though I know the plot already from TV). I love how Mac try his way to the diamond mill, how the way he walk out of the mind in front of the guards.

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Summary: A Slight Disappointment
Review: After having read two or three great novels by Sidney Sheldon, Master of the Game was a slight disappointment. The story was too predictable. The last book of the novel was the best. The book is worth reading...but I wouldn't read it twice as I've done other books.

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Summary: Sidney Sheldon was at the top. He was a Master of the Game.
Review: A Point To Be Made: This is a somewhat unoriginal tale trademarked by Sheldon's predictable and telltale strategy of evoking shock by turning to archetypes and extremes. As usual, the important characters are extremely rich, extremely powerful, extremely successful at whatever endeavour they pursue, extremely beautiful, or naive, or intelligent, or all three, extremely cruel, extremely vindictive, or spiteful, or both, and extremely good schemers. Overusing the word extremely? Sure I am, and that is how you feel after reading Sheldon's book. Especially if you have read other books by him in the last year or so. Kate Blackwell (main character) is yet another strong female character whose light just will not be dimmed, just like all the other female characters with an unstinting fortitude Sheldon moulds to be masters of the game of life, in their own right. (In the story with the four female medical doctors as the central characters, which I really enjoyed and read in one sitting, one of the characters (unintelligent, never studied a day in her life) actually sleeps her way through high school! Then into medical school!! Then all through medical school!!! Then, when her fellow doctors realise she doesn't know the difference between rhinoplasty and a pap smear, she sleeps with them too. In what world is that remotely conceivable? Other than this noteworthy points, and especially if this is your first Sheldon book, there really is nothing wrong with the story, and it is well worth your time. Sheldon proves that he is capable of mastery in several aspects of the constituents required to write a brilliant novel, even if his ideas are old and battered from overuse now. Another aspect that worries is how Sheldon seems to be getting mushy around the edges. Remember how brutal his first stories were? With the Mafia shooting boys, pornographers strangling Dutch prostitutes and thieves crippling pianists? The strain is naturally still there, but boy has it been toned down and diluted. Enamoured by his female characters he has always been, certain intrinsic elements within Master of the Game seem to portray that this softness has now extended beyond its previous pattern of sympathy with female characters and begun to affect the way his stories turn out. Master of the game is a good book produced by a good writer, but Sheldon was certainly at his best in the days of Napoleon Chotas, so-called the finest legal mind in history. Like most writers, his first work (The Naked Face) is a fictional classic which paved the way for his other productions. Nevertheless, a good page-turner, fine effort. Official Rating 7.8 / 10 - Rounded up to four stars

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Summary: supremo uno
Review: Master of the Game is the story chronicling the formation, growth and eventual conglomeration of Kruger-Brent Ltd, as well as the search for its heir-apparent.
Jamie McGregor left his family behind in Scotland, looking to fortune-seek for diamonds in South Africa. After hardships, deprivations, he strikes it rich, only to lose everything at the hands of a certain Mr. Van der Merwe, a merchant in a small town.
Jamie leaves the town, returns a year later as a rich man, founder of Kruger-Brent Ltd., a company named after two men who tried to kill him. The chapter on his life closes when he is struck down by a stroke that turns him to a vegetable.
A new chapter begins with his wife, Magaret, taking over the company, then handing it down to her daugther, Kate.
The action begins.
With shrewdness, and a steel will, Kate Blackwell has taken Kruger-Brent from being a national company to being an international conglomerate. Now she has to raise an heir: she starts with her son; ends with her granddaugthers. Yet unknown to Kate, she is up against an opponent who has learnt from her. By the end, there will be only one player left standing: The Master of the Game.
This is an engaging and provocative novel, tautly written.
Sidney Sheldon has excelled in creating strong, independent women; Kate Blackwell must rank as one of his best.
We empathize with her, even as she does the wrong things for the right reasosns. From Jamie to Eve, we understand their virtues, even as we recognize their vices.
Like the Matrix, the side characters in this elaborate plot are obsessed with choice; the main characters with control.
Even when we wonder at the utility of attenuating the males--most be a destructive gene, we still suspend our incredulity for rumination only when the covers are closed.
Book lovers, this is entertainment in its purest form.
Enjoy

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Summary: Resonates with the passage of time.
Review: I first discovered Sidney Sheldon back in the mid-80s and subsequently went on a reading binge, reading six of his books in as many months, including "Rage of Angels" and "The Sands of Time." But the one book I remember the most, I remember turning the pages furiously with undeniable fervor, was "Master of the Game." This book is far and away Sidney Sheldon's masterpiece. While "The Other Side of Midnight" had its moments, after so many readings the more mediocre novels wear their formulaic plotting on their proverbial sleeves. If I were to recommend any single Sidney Sheldon novel to read, as I did to a co-worker recently who consumed this book in less than a week raving all the while, it would be "Master of the Game." This has all the best trappings of Sidney Sheldon novels: exotic locales, travel, intrigue, lovemaking, adventure, the rich, the ambitious, and all the possible seedy characters in between. This is a page turner without a shadow of a doubt. A solid second purchase recommendation for Sidney Sheldon is "The Sands of Time" which is also epic in its plotting and grand storytelling, but at no point before or since has Sidney Sheldon matched "Master of the Game." I heartily recommend buying this book as soon as possible. "Master of the Game" is a splendid representation of all that is appealing about popular fiction.