Rating: 
Summary: horrible
Review: man this book was horrible with a capital H. my friend,jenny, read this book about angry jews who will stop at nothing for revenge, and she thought it was good, it sucked, stupid zealots giving it good reviews, ugh
Rating:
Summary: horrible
Review: man this book was horrible with a capital H. my friend,jenny, read this book about angry jews who will stop at nothing for revenge, and she thought it was good, it sucked, stupid zealots giving it good reviews, ugh
Rating:
Summary: The editor should be fired
Review: Patterson's books run the gamut...some great and then this lousy one. I couldn't get into the story because of the terrible factual errors that jarred i.e. Dachau was a concentration camp NOT a death camp (executions yes, ovens yes but no gas chambers). Big difference. Final straw: 1st graf in Chapter 53, on a Russian train are "portraits of Nikolai Lenin and Karl Marx..." Nikolai??? Nikolai??? Its Vladimir Ilich Lenin dummy. Amazing he didn't also say "and Groucho Marx." I blame the editor for not catching this stuff.
Rating: 
Summary: A brilliant book from Patterson
Review: Some James Patterson readers just cannot understand why his early books are actually very good. But they are...James Patterson's early books are gems to be savoured as they are some of the few example of him when he actually wrote GOOD prose, before he began churning them out like Danielle Steele just for a few more bucks. The prose in his latest books is unashamedly simplistic and shallow, and completely lacks any kind of depth. here, at least, his prose is far better. And, the story looses absolutely nothing. It is still very suspenseful, pageturning, etc. All the things for which Patterson is best known. The good writing takes absolutely nothign away from the excitement and overall quality of the plot and even, at times, adds to it. The plot itself is strong (if rather unrealistic...but then, we do not look to Patterson for realism) and much better developed than those of his latest books. The characters are also more well-drawn (still not good...but character development has never been one of his grest strength, unless of course you're talking about the villains in his first three Cross thrillers.) It's also a book which puts forward lots of moral issues, and probably plays around with yourbeliefes and conceptions about what is good and what is bad. I.e. the villains are not who at first we think they are, but they are an altogether different group of people whom we feel a great empathy for. There are still twists aplenty throughout the book, and it powers along with the speed and inevitability of a freight train. The climax is great, and the relationship between Alix and David touching (although its not quite understandable how David so quickly gets over the death of his wife) If only James Patterson would go back to this style. Good writing AND a great plot...now, there's something to look out for from JP.
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Summary: This book is, uhhhhhh, good, yeah thats the word
Review: The book See How They Run is a very intense book, it puts you onto the edge of your seat for the whole book. The ending is very twisty, leaving your mouth open when it comes to a close. Patterson is a very, very good writer he knows what he should say to get you amazed with his book. It isn't very clear the time period it is in but you can be fairly faithful that it is in present day. There are many characters in the start of the book, but in the first ten or so chapters, they all are killed. Patterson has a unique style of writing, it is a little unclear weather the main character is talking or if he is not. There are almost ninety chapters which makes it kind of choppy, it jumps around quite a bit. I haven't read any of Pattersons other books, so I don't know if this writing style is his only means of writing. I am not really a fan of this writing style, but the book is just so good that it makes up for that. In my opinion, this is a very good book and I would reccomend it to more mature people, it being a fairly "adult" book. In conclusion, this is a very good book and I would give it a four out of five. The crow flies at midnight.
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Summary: Good novelist, but this one didn't jazz me.
Review: This is a moderately interesting novel about a radical, militant Jewish organization that, posing as a neo-Nazi terrorist organization, plans and tries to execute an outlandish scheme of vengeance at the 1980 Olympic games in Moscow.
Rating: 
Summary: Not bad for one of his first books.
Review: This is book was originally the Jericho Commandment which was one of the first books he wrote in 1979. The information in this book is all fiction. You will get dissapointed in James Patterson after reading 'See How They Run" if you read Jack and Jill before.
Rating:
Summary: HORRIBLE
Review: this james patterson book sucked horribly! my stupid friend read it and thought it was good, but it wasn't. its a about some angry Jews who will stop at nothing for revenge.... not exactly a good story. ugh i can't beleive she read this horrible peice of trash, jenny, i feel sorry for you
Rating:
Summary: HORRIBLE
Review: this james patterson book sucked horribly! my stupid friend read it and thought it was good, but it wasn't. its a about some angry Jews who will stop at nothing for revenge.... not exactly a good story. ugh i can't beleive she read this horrible peice of trash, jenny, i feel sorry for you
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Summary: It's a mess at best
Review: This was my first Patterson book and I'd say, unfortunately, it was fair at best. I guess I will try another one of his books as many say what a great writer he is, but "See How They Run" is not impressive at all.
First, the story line is completely unbelieveable. Jews avenging the holocoust by using Nazi techniques and an American gynacologist as the super action hero just doesn't work. Add on top of that a hectic and confusing end, paper thin characters, an unbelieveable romantic relationship between hero and heroin, storyline tangents that don't fit into the overall plot, and what you end up with is basically a mess.
Maybe 2 stars is kind, but I'll hope his other books are significantly better.
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