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Summary: Excitement and Fun
Review: I couldn't put this book down. My favorite of Neville's three, and I've read them all. Some may find it too non-cerebral for their taste, but it just shows she can write anything, including John Grisham style stuff. With romance, no less!
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Summary: BORING
Review: I have read both this book and the eight. I loved the eight but could not finish calculated risk. It was chock full of boring details.Never ending
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Summary: FAST AND FURIOUS!!!
Review: I love a fast paced book better than anything, especially one that makes you think! This is it. For those who want to exercise their minds while exercising their libidos, try A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville.
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Summary: One of my all-time favorites!
Review: I love this book! I have read it several times. It is a romantic thriller for the intelligent person. Katherine Neville has written three well researched, interesting, novels and this is my favorite. I hope she writes another one SOON!
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Summary: One of my all-time favorites!
Review: I love this book! I have read it several times. It is a romantic thriller for the intelligent person. Katherine Neville has written three well researched, interesting, novels and this is my favorite. I hope she writes another one SOON!
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Summary: Fantastic Writing!
Review: I loved this and all other Neville books. I love the mixture of adventure, escapism, romance , and history that blend together to create this book. I always become so entranced with her characters...and this book is no different. Verity and Tor are lovable, yet very human people. I would highly recommend this book if anyone is looking for something to get really caught up in. It becomes addicting, so watch out.
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Summary: Stimulating thought while having a good read
Review: I too read "The Eight" and thought it was one of the best I'd read. I eagerly bought this one and put off reading it until I had some uninterrupted time to savor it. I have not been disappointed, and in fact have been telling all my friends to read it. I keep looking up subjects she describes on the internet to learn more about them, such as the Isle of Mona, etc. I like the way she weaved together many of the religions of the world, the witty female heroine, and her convoluted family. The only reason I didn't give it a higher rating than 8 is the ending is weak and disappointing.
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Summary: transuranic/Katherine Neville?
Review: I would like to recieve any type of information on the subject of transuranic or if possible the E-Mail address of Ms. Katherine Neville.
Thank You "Midas"
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Summary: Compared to The Eight, this is A One
Review: I'm a big fan of The Eight and I was looking forward to more of the same. But, instead of a complex sweeping novel with plot twists and intellectual interest, I found this to be a formula piece that felt dashed off. I was very disappointed.
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Summary: Filled with ludicrous details, wooden characters, and turgid
Review: If Neville's been in banking, I have to wonder whether she ever saw a computer. Natural language interfaces like the ones she describes simply don't exist, and 20-year-old computers aren't treasures -- they're junk; your toaster can compute faster than they can. Such errors (not to mention errors in her descriptions of the Chips and Fedwire wire-transfer systems) make me doubt that the rest of the book has any details right. So this is all just science fiction, and if you're gonna write science fiction, you can make it a lot more interesting than this. Even so, this might be a decent excuse for an "airplane book" if the prose were any less wooden. I read passages aloud that made my wife guffaw. At first I thought I was reading a Bulwer-Lytton award winner. Don't spend your money on this tripe! You're better off spending the time watching reruns of The Brady Bunch.
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