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Summary: Yet again, Nelson DeMille writes like Nelson DeMille.
Review: While neither "The Charm School", nor "Word of Honor", DeMille's finest novels, "Plum Island" comes in right behind "The General's Daughter" and "The Gold Coast". Sorry I couldn't throw more accolades at the book. I did thorougly enjoy it, as I enjoy DeMille's writing more than any other author (with the close possible exception of Stephen King), I just didn't enjoy it as much as the aforementioned novels. However, like usual, "Plum Island" did whip up my frustration that DeMille doesn't publish more. I find the 1st person perspective style refreshing and particularly entertaining at the able hands of DeMille. Living in Boulder, Co. (an incredibly beautiful town), I was prompted to read with an atlas at my side, constantly referring to it; and upon finishing the book, I was almost tempted to pack up and move to the majestically yet quaintly described Long Island that Mr. DeMille pens for us. Bravo Nelson, you've done it again, I just wish it wasn't so long between reads
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Summary: Demille writes very accurately of the gold coast great read.
Review: From the Charm School to the Gold Coast to Plum Island and the Talbot Oddessy Demille is a great read and doesn't publish fast enough. His description of the gold coast and its islands is accurate and informing and you set on the edge of your chair, holding the book tight waiting for the next murder, his/hers and who is the killer when he makes everyone from the police chief to the owner of a winery and maybe someone in Manhattan suspect. It is a mystery book that you can't put down after you begin the first page. The only place he didn't include was the ferry to Block Island. I hope rewrites a sequel to this one. I have read everything that he has written and everytime I say this is the best yet. Don't hesitate to buy it, it's worth the price
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Summary: Entertaining Summer Read!
Review: This is the first book by Nelson Demille that I have read. I really enjoyed it. It was a fast read, perfect for summer reading. I thought the characters were well developed and the plot, though predictable, was good. I guess I really enjoyed it because I lived on eastern Long Island and have seen Plum Island in the distance many times. Though I doubt that there is buried treasure on Plum Island, the fact that the government does testing of horrible diseases over there is not comforting. Try it, you will enjoy it. It was very entertaining
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Summary: A total waste of the reader's time
Review: After reading and thoroughly enjoying Demille's earlier works, I was completely turned off by
Plum Island. The writing, characters and plot
are juvenile at best, and a travesty at worst. Has what was once a talented writer turned trite and commercial like the now disappointing John Grisham? Demille's protagonist, an NYPD detective, is such an obnoxious, arrogant pain-in-the-neck that he discolors the entire story early on. I gave up on Demille and the
story by page 100 and have decided to donate
this bit of garbage to my local library with
pity for any readers who may check it out in
hopes of a good summer read. My recommendation
is to leave Plum Island on the shelf and pick up "The Perfect Storm" instead.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down.
Review: Enough has been said in the prior reviews to satisfy even the slightly curious. I've read every Demille book published, yet this one was still a 2:00 am, I've got to go to sleep, but I can't-put-it-down kind of book. One criticism (If you're listening Mr. Demille) is that Boston Whalers don't sink
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Summary: What a bore!
Review: I have read most of Mr. Demille's works and totally enjoyed GOLD COAST and THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER. PLUM ISLAND is a disaster! It seems as if the author is trying to create a "gum shoe" of the 40's and 50's but fails dismally. John Corey, the NYPD detective, is all smart mouth. For pages on pages on pages, NOTHING HAPPENS. Then, maybe, a clue. All of a sudden, this smart mouth becomes the greatest detective on earth. Too much talk and smart remarks and too little action and plot. If Demille is tyring to make John Corey the "gum shoe" of the 90's, I'm not buying
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Summary: Overcooked Cynicism can only make a writer worse
Review: "Are you John?" "None other." How could a person answered a stranger like that? How could John Corey could become a detective if all he could do was jerking around to other people in a murder case with a totally unrealistic and absurd attitude? The writing is so loose that until page 100, the jerk detective could only find an ice box was missing on the victims' boat. We only read lot of unnecessary and extremely absurd dialogues between or among unfamiliar people. This time, Demille was totally lost and become a overkilled cynical melodrama writer as unapproriate as the hero, John Corey, as he created. I regret to find all the dialogues in this book were just like adding hollow bricks. A book which could be finished under 250 pages being ballooned into a farce over 500 pages. Such a terrible way to waste the precious paper material
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Summary: Great summer read!!!
Review: Everything you would expect from DeMille-good story, accurate history of the area. Very entertaining-recommended it to everyone I know
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Summary: DeMille's Best Yet
Review: If you are a DeMille fan, this is a must buy! I have read The General's Daughter, The Gold Coast and Spencerville by DeMille. However, Plum Island bests them all. It captured my interest from the beginning and held it throughout the entire 507 pages. This is clearly DeMille at this best. The plot takes some of the most interesting twists I've ever encountered in his works. Read the review, read the jacket, buy it, take it home and enjoy. You wont be sorry
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Summary: A Totally Degenerated & Focus-loss author like MikeTyson!!!
Review: Is this the author who wrote GOLD COAST and other books which were generally good? Did N.Demille suffered the "Robert B. Parker Smart-talk Craps Syndrome" or "Lawrence Sanders's McNally Blab,blab,blab Syndrome"? The whole book is full of unappropriate, ridiculous, over-killed smart talks which are so digressively disgusting from Page 1. How could a New York Detective try to be so ridiculously and senselessly a smart-assed talk show host almost to everyone he met? How could such character survive the whole book? I could only found Robert B. Parker's making his Spencer like a jerk, trying so hard and effortlessly to humor anyone he met, and could provide lip service to his clients and the readers which makes me sick to the guts! Because this is totally impossible! If we cannot control ourselves's attitude, and giving other strangers a least respect but showing an asshole attitude to them, noboey would treat him as normal person. The hero of N.Demille's Plum Island should be locked up in the asylum fo
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