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Summary: PERRY AT HIS BEST
Review: "Sleeping Dogs" and "Butcher's Boy" are the best novels written by Thomas Perry. His other novels are interesting and well written but the characters don't have the appeal of the assassin. "Butcher Boy" takes top rating from critics and most readers but I felt "Sleeping Dogs" was a tad better than the first novel. Perry writing is a level above contemporay fiction writers. Apparently, he learned how to get the point across in a miniumn amount of words. Hopefully, Perry will decide to write a sequel to "Sleeping Dogs".
Rating:
Summary: PERRY AT HIS BEST
Review: "Sleeping Dogs" and "Butcher's Boy" are the best novels written by Thomas Perry. His other novels are interesting and well written but the characters don't have the appeal of the assassin. "Butcher Boy" takes top rating from critics and most readers but I felt "Sleeping Dogs" was a tad better than the first novel. Perry writing is a level above contemporay fiction writers. Apparently, he learned how to get the point across in a miniumn amount of words. Hopefully, Perry will decide to write a sequel to "Sleeping Dogs".
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Summary: boring and predictable, but well written
Review: - nothing else to say about this unremarkable book.
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Summary: GREAT EDGE OF YOUR SEAT RIDE!
Review: A good twister with some laughs along the way, and a good dose of nail biting suspense. The premise is a bit far fetched, but that is what you expect from this kind of book. The writing is easy reading all the way, and the charachters well developed and interesting. This is what I call a good beach read - nothing too heavy but fun. Check out "A Tourist in the Yucatan" thriller/mystery; another good beach read.
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Summary: GREAT EDGE OF YOUR SEAT RIDE!
Review: A good twister with some laughs along the way, and a good dose of nail biting suspense. The premise is a bit far fetched, but that is what you expect from this kind of book. The writing is easy reading all the way, and the charachters well developed and interesting. This is what I call a good beach read - nothing too heavy but fun. Check out "A Tourist in the Yucatan" thriller/mystery; another good beach read.
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Summary: Please write a sequel to Sleeping Dogs quickly!!!!!!!!
Review: Awesome book, but please write a sequel soon. I am anxiously awaiting. Thanks so much.
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Summary: An exceptional, must read book
Review: I have now read "Sleeping Dogs" four times, and it gets better each time. It is so well-paced and compactly written that there isn't a wasted word. Everything else Perry has written pales in comparison. His "Butcher's Boy", which this is the sequel to, was very good as well. I only hope that a third installment is coming. In the hands of the right director this book could make a great movie.
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Summary: An exceptional, must read book
Review: I have now read "Sleeping Dogs" four times, and it gets better each time. It is so well-paced and compactly written that there isn't a wasted word. Everything else Perry has written pales in comparison. His "Butcher's Boy", which this is the sequel to, was very good as well. I only hope that a third installment is coming. In the hands of the right director this book could make a great movie.
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Summary: Too Much Work!!!
Review: I read and loved The Butcher's Boy, Perry's first novel. I was really looking forward to this one, but it disappointed me. In the first book, Perry was straightforward and to the point. In Sleeping Dogs, it's almost as if Perry was told by someone that you have to explain every detail of every character. This includes people who are just about to be killed. So with every new character he brings in, we get a few pages of history on the person, only to have them get killed a second later, or leave the plot line never to be heard from again. The ending was a real disappointment. The method Perry uses to allow The Butcher's Boy to get away is very poor. I really felt cheated. So my advice is read the first one, and skip the second.
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Summary: Too Much Work!!!
Review: I read and loved The Butcher's Boy, Perry's first novel. I was really looking forward to this one, but it disappointed me. In the first book, Perry was straightforward and to the point. In Sleeping Dogs, it's almost as if Perry was told by someone that you have to explain every detail of every character. This includes people who are just about to be killed. So with every new character he brings in, we get a few pages of history on the person, only to have them get killed a second later, or leave the plot line never to be heard from again. The ending was a real disappointment. The method Perry uses to allow The Butcher's Boy to get away is very poor. I really felt cheated. So my advice is read the first one, and skip the second.
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