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Summary: Gripping Read
Review: This book was phenomenal. It kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Definitely much better than the movie.
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Summary: QUITE A REFRESHING READ!
Review: So the author takes a few flying leaps--so what? If we wanted complete reality, why read fiction? Unique, and wonderfully focused on the heros as opposed to the genre's typical focus on the villian. For a change the protagonist was much more interesting. Two thumbs up!
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Summary: An engrossing and realistic page-turner!
Review: This book was fabulous and I can't wait for more featuring Amelia and Lincoln Rhyme. The Bone Collector is by far my favorite Deaver book and the follow-up was also wonderful. The story has it's quirks and they all work. The story is realistic and well written. The characters are well formed and likable. Deaver gives you just enough background info to keep you wanting more but not too much so that it takes away from the plot. This book was recently made into a movie - since the book is one of my favorites I saw the film - while decent it just does not hold a candle to the book. The book leaves no loose ends and Jeffery Deaver really fleshes the characters out. This is NOT your average serial killer novel nor is Lincoln your average detective. I highly recommend this one - it will keep you up all night reading because you just can't put it down.
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Summary: Nearly 5 stars, then the ending comes
Review: This novel is mesmerizing, exciting, and unputdownable. The book absolutely falls apart in the final pages, though, which lowers it to the rank of mediocre.
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Summary: Unbelievable? Who cares!
Review: I read this book with a tremendous degree of enjoyment. I was terrified by the way the true horror of quadrapligia was evoked and fascinated by the mechanics of living with it. I thought the sense of claustrophobia and helplessness of this terrible and humiliating condition were brilliantly and compassionately conveyed by the writer. I felt very moved by the struggle that so many people and families must endure every waking minute of their lives in living through this terrible misfortune. The develoment of the story was, of course, only believable because I wanted it to be! I chose to believe in the possibilities which were quite superbly researched and brilliantly laid out before me as I travelled through the story. The impossibility of these terrible events and remarkable deductions unfolding in the real world as they did in the book was neither here nor there to me! I always understood that I was reading fiction - not journalism! I look forward to more appearances from Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs and more hours of abandonment in the plausible impossible stories that can be read from the dust on our jackets and the stones stuck in our shoes by one brilliant man lying flat on his bed overlooking New York City! It seems to me that if you look for too much from Jeffery Deaver you might not find it! If, however, you are prepared to settle for a well paced well plotted thriller with superbly well researched content and distinctive characters that might just disturb your sleep then you will be well satisfied with The Bone Collector! An exciting and enlightening piece of work. Well done Jeffery Deaver!
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Summary: Excellent, this man can write
Review: I found The Bone Collector to be a thrilling, exciting, and absorbing chiller. Definitly one of the best in this genre that I have read. (And I have read many). Jeffrey Deaver knows how to keep us on the edge of our seats for the entire book. I have now bought all of his others, except one which I will get soon. Don't miss this exciting writer.
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Summary: "UN-PUT-DOWN-ABLE !"
Review: This was the first I had heard of Deaver. I am getting ready to order his other 2! This was a book i could not put down! It not only scared me with the plot, twists and turns....but, it scared me because I enjoyed it so much! Because, it does get gruesome. I also learned a lot. About forensics and the like. I beleive that " The Bone Collector" is MUST read for anybody who enjoys a good scare and a lot of suspense!
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Summary: Don't want to stop!
Review: This was the first book I read by Jeffery Deaver and it was fantastic. From the first page, you just wanted to keep reading. The forensic detail was excellent, giving Patricia Cornwell competition! The character of Lincoln Ryhme was so well written, you knew him. Just when you think you have it figured out, something new and exciting happens. Read The Coffin Dancer next!
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Summary: Non Stop Thriller
Review: Jeffery Deaver has done it again. Once you start reading "The Bone Collector",it becomes impossible to put down. Lincoln Rhyme is a great character. Mr. Deaver does a brilliant job creating this character. Great forensic details. This is a nonstop thrill ride. Keeps you guessing up to the last page with exciting plot surprises.
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Summary: I've had nightmares scarier than this book
Review: I'd give this book less than a star if I could. I don't know about anyone else, but this book did not scare me or hold me in suspense. It was full of holes and inaccuracies that were simply inexcusable. For example, the psychological diagnosis of the murderer as having multiple personality disorder (MPD). He did NOT have MPD. He was delusional, maybe, but for the shrink in the book to label him MPD was riduculous. Also, if I wanted a book on the technical aspects of forensic science, I would have gotten one. All the acronyms were annoying, and as a scientist I knew what most of them were. If Deavers wants to write books like that, then let him write text books. The two things that bothered me most, however, was how ridiculously unrealistic the characters were and how scripted the book was. Did anyone else notice that just about EVERYONE in the book was beautiful? I always thought good books reflected on what life is, not on what you want it to be. And the book seemed written to be a movie. I didn't want a movie script to read. I wanted a BOOK. But Deavers seemed to know that this would be a movie and wrote it thusly. (And the movie gets less than a star, too, because it had more holes and annoying points than the book did. Man, talk about cliches!) I wish I could get back the hours it took me to read the book. Honestly, I'd rather do the dishes than spend my time on this book.
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