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Summary: feministly bewitching
Review: 'None of Your Business' is a tale of the feminist picaresque. Imagine a character from the Betty Friedan wars wandering into an episode of Law and Order. It's that much fun.
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Summary: Smart, Funny, Worth It
Review: A fun fast read that I could not put down. A computer mystery with odd, well developed charachters, witty writing and a compelling plot. A great book and this will be a great movie. (I agree with the reviewer that says the cover doesn't make any sense)...Buy it anyway.
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Summary: Smart, Funny, Worth It
Review: A fun fast read that I could not put down. A computer mystery with odd, well developed charachters, witty writing and a compelling plot. A great book and this will be a great movie. (I agree with the reviewer that says the cover doesn't make any sense)...Buy it anyway.
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Summary: Flunky.
Review: Forget this one and go find something better to read. This book isn't worth either your money or your effort to read it.
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Summary: None of Your Business
Review: Funny, interesting story, but the best part is the dialogue. Valerie Block has an infallible ear.
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Summary: None of Your Business
Review: I couldn't put it down. This is a "how done it" pitting a brilliant cyber embezzler against the NYPD's computer crimes unit. The moves are fascinating and ingenious. A mystery buff in New Jersey
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: I loved this book! Block is a fresh and funny writer; great dialogue, loved her characters (though I would not necessarily want to interact with them in real life!). I laughed out loud many times while reading this book. I also found the plot fascinating. Extremely entertaining. I can't wait for another book by Block.
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Summary: A cyberworld police procedural
Review: Mitch Greiff, described as a "celebrity tax accountant," fumbles through life while women take care of him. There's his beautiful wife Patricia, a former model; Heather, a reasonably attractive junior manager and one-time romantic interest; and Erica, the only person in the office who actually reads the daily tax report from cover to cover every day. Erica, the strongest, wields the most influence. A brusque, unattractive woman, she nevertheless wins Mitch with her intelligence and attention to detail. Although she's direct to the point of rudeness, I admire her style. "I won't bond with you," she says to a total stranger who begins sharing PMS stories in a hallway. At the same time, I think the book could be at least fifty pages shorter. Multiple viewpoints don't bother me -- but we learn far too much about everyone's personal and past life, in excruciating detail. Patricia and Mitch have two sons who are unattractive in uninteresting ways. One of the cops has an animal-loving wife; the other seeks romance while living with his mother. Enough, already! Although the book gets shelved with mysteries, it's really more of a car chase, with computers instead of cars. I didn't really understand why Mitch was so eager to follow Erica's lead. True, he was getting bored with his life, but he had more than enough resources to move. He became more and more passive as the book wore on. Nor did I really see what Erica wanted or why she needed Mitch. Granted, he was a good lover who accepted her unique physical quirks, but she was perfectly capable of starting a new life on her own. Then again, perhaps the book ultimately is about being unappreciated in one's world. Erica is vastly overqualified for her job and Mitch's partners urge him to find a more attractive junior manager. Patricia's beauty and competence are unappreciated, at least by her husband. Tony, one of the cops, has a last straw moment when cops take credit for his success. There's also a subtheme of being put upon. Both Patricia and Erica find themselves responding to rude comments from strangers. They're asked about their religion, health, pregnancy and more -- and they feel these questions as intrusions. It's so easy to create multiple identities in yahoo and hotmail -- why didn't she? By the end of the book I was rooting for her.
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Summary: A "must have" for your mystery collection!
Review: Mitchell "Mitch" Greiff, a Manhattan-based celebrity accountant, is a partner with the firm of Friedman, Greiff, & Slavin. He told everyone he was going for a vacation in Japan. Then he simply disappeared. No one seems to know if Mitch really went to Japan or if he is a victim of foul play. The only facts known is that his vacation was approved by his partners for two weeks, now it had been close to four weeks, and $14 million dollars have disappeared at the same time Mitch did. The money had been electronically transferred out of various clients' accounts. The clients have so much money that they did not even realize a good chunk of their money had disappeared. Detectives Dennis Sprague and Anthony Ballestrino, of the Computer Crimes Squad, are put on the case. Whoever took the money left no trail, electronic or otherwise. All leads led to dead ends. Too many people had access to the needed keys or information. Wire transfer approvals were forged, so were bank confirmations. Now what? ***** Author Valerie Block took a complex mystery and turned it into a witty, fast paced novel that is sure to delight everyone! The novel does not follow just the detectives. It also follows some of the most colorful characters you will ever meet. A "must have" for your mystery collection! *****
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Summary: Flunky.
Review: My God, I didn't want this book to end. The best I've read all year. There are several synopses on the page already so I'll skip that. "None of Your Business" was extremely funny, clever, well-written and enthralling. I waited a long time after Ms. Block's first book for her follow-up, and she certainly did not disappoint. Should be on the best seller list.
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