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Summary: Popular author disease strikes again.
Review: This book, like the recent works of other major best selling authors, is a good novel but suffers from the idea that anything the author writes is gold. As a consequence, the book is about 1/4 too long. Even though DeMille's dialog is often funny, you wind up wishing he'd get a move on his story. The novel is good, but nowhere up to his best efforts.
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Summary: The best book I've ever read!
Review: Excellent, compelling, funny, well written book
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Summary: Fastinating story
Review: It's a good story. Because I was stationed on the island during WW II, I had a special interest.
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Summary: FANTASTIC
Review: Nelson DeMille gests back to his best a mixture of romance suspence and humour. I could not put this books down. Not since Generals Duaghter and the Charm School have I enjoyed a book so much. I can't wait for more. I just wish Nelson could write faster so we would have to wait so long!
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Summary: I LOVED THIS BOOK! You have to read it!
Review: I thought this book was a really well-written book. The characters were soooo funny! I'm going to have read other books by this author.
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Summary: Demille Returns to LI with Witty Hero
Review: Another of Demille's hard to put down novels. I enjoyed it thoroughly, especially after the middling disappointment I felt after reading Spencerville. Detective John Corey is a funny, interesting, crude guy who personifies Demille's talent for creating humor-filled wiseass main characters. Being a Long Islander by birth who now lives elsewhere, I thoroughly enjoy his work. Perhaps his best look at LI however, is found in The Gold Coast. I sometimes think that to truly appreciate Demille's humorous main characters, one must be from the NY metro area. As I have traveled around the country, I have heard many people criticize us as being rude, obnoxious, brusque, abrupt, abrasive and short tempered. Well, many of the descriptions are correct....if you're from NY. So, why should John Corey, a detective in NYPD be any different? And remember, Nelson Demille is a New Yorker, so of course, he imbues many of his characters with the traits I'd be willing to bet he shares, too. As I read this book, I smiled and chuckled to myself many times. Having left LI, the book helped me to remember all of the things I loved about living there. Unfortunately, the area Demille sets the novel in, the Town of Southold is no longer remotely similar to the rest of Long Island. It is what LI used to be and is no longer. His description of the area made me wonder if Nelson Demille wishes some of the damage caused by the over-population and over-development of the "Island" could have been prevented. The disappointment I found was the "Ramboesque" boat chase. When I read the book the first time, I thought it unnecessary and superfluous. When I re-read the book the second time, I found the chase annoying and amateurish. But, that's criticism from a fan who can only aspire to the over-all talent contained in this popular author from the place where I grew up. I have one other minor complaint and it is this: "Mr. Demille, could you please write more quickly? I've run out of your books to read and I want more............."
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Summary: Major disappointment
Review: A big disappointment after reading the very entertaining "Gold Coast". The premise of "Plum Island" is unlikely, and the plotline soon becomes predictable. Worst of all, the dialog is insipid to the point of distraction. (People talk like this in bad TV movies and in cheezy novels --but not in real life.)
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Summary: Great use of north fork of LI. Clever, wisecracking hero
Review: If you like DeMille's characters to be wiseacres and clever, and want to learn about the picturesque north fork of Long Island, NY, then this is a 5-star story. Extremely accurate in its description of local geography, fishing, etc., except for the catching of a shark in Plum Gut (the waters that separate Orient, LI from Plum Island). Ain't ever happened, and never will. But all in all, a great read!
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Summary: Dramatically, mysteriously funny!!
Review: As a voracious reader, and one who reads a certain type of book according to my ever-changing mood, I found DeMille's "Plum Island" marvelous! DeMille's blend of first-person humor and ingenious murder mystery writing skills makes for sleepless nights of page turning. He's brought the "who-done-it's" to a new level.
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Summary: Great story/audio version s****
Review: I do allot of travelling in a car, so I often listen to books on audio (I do try to actually read as much as possible, but will listen when I can't read). Anyway, I first listened to Plum Island, and was really put off by David Duke's read of John Corey (the main character). He uses an accent that couldn't be farther from anything that resembles a New York City accent. It's just plain annoying - a sort of Bostonian, Martha's Vineyard, southern accent all rolled into one annoying voice. It really took away from the story. I live near where the story takes place, but I'm not trying to be a "we don't sound like that" type a guy. It's laughable how bad David's read is.. I swear. David Duke's read of the other characters was fine, it was just the title character that was incredibly annoying. I really tried to get through the audio version of the story, trying to acceept David Duke's horrible read and couldn't. I finally gave up and got the print version - which was great, though still hard to keep that bad accent out of my head. Gread read/horrible Listen.
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