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Summary: FUN TO READ, MEMORABLE - KEPT MY INTEREST
Review: I almost didn't buy this book because of the mixed reviews. Happily, I did buy it and enjoyed every minute of reading it! Wish there was a sequel coming for these characters! The good guy was as interesting as they come. The bad guy was chilling and ruthless and just insane enough to be very spooky. The plot twisted and kept me trying to figure out who to believe, a rare treat. Buy the book!
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Summary: This ain't no Bone Collector or Coffin Dancer...
Review: Okay Jeffery, I wasn't too crazy about The Empty Chair; but I gave you another shot... Well, The Blue Nowhere ain't no Bone Collector. And it certainly ain't no Coffin Dancer. If I'd wanted to learn everthing there is to know about computers I would've bought a *Dummies* book. --Whatever happened to character development? Furthering a plot line? Creating atmosphere? Building suspense? These were afterthoughts in a book that read like a text on internet crime.
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Summary: Excellent and exciting read!
Review: I just finished this book and was very surprised with the bad reviews here. I personally found The Blue Nowhere to be enthralling and interesting. Anyone who likes computers (and even those who don't) should read this book. Very suspenseful!
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Summary: Good story, but...
Review: WAY too much computer technical jargon. I realize that most of us don't know everything about the "Blue Nowhere", but character development and story suffered as the author tried to educate all of us ... I have read and re-read all of Mr. Deaver's other books, but this was too exhausting to ever open again.
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Summary: Stick to Kincaid Novels...
Review: I enjoyed Deaver's other books, so at the airport, when the jacket promised a cyber-thriller, I excitedly bought this book. I should have put it down early on when Deaver was explaining how crackers stole some company's "source codes." By the time he had PCs crashing by having the operating systems changing their power supply settings (huh ?) it was too late. Anyone with an understanding of how computers, networks or crypto actually work should stay very far away from this novel.Additionally, the who-dunnit aspect of the book got tiring as suspect after suspect was teed up and eliminated without giving the interested reader the information necessary to eliminate (or not) suspects. I felt the plot was spoon-fed to us far more than in the Kincaid novels. I have to wonder two things out loud: 1] is his forensic and crime scene analysis information (something I have less domain expertise in) as riddled with factual errors as his computer/technology information and 2] how in the world did editors and publishers let this one out.
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Summary: The Blue Nowhere
Review: Reading a work of fiction means suspending belief. Jurassic Park didn't cut it technically... but I loved the book. My software is used daily in thousands of physician's offices across the country. I have an MA in Computer Science and 20 years of coding experience. And yes... this book is not perfect technically. So what? It's still a seat-of-your-pants thriller! Is it possible you'll get lost in the technical stuff? I suppose... But that's secondary to the story. I have yet to read a work of high tech fiction that doesn't take extreme literary license with the facts. I love to read. And I have yet to regret reading a Jeffery Deaver novel. I thought it was a terrific book. And the ending has so many breath-taking twists... you may have to read the last few chapters twice just to make sure you got it!
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Summary: "phading phast"
Review: At completion, I was unimpressed with THE BLUE NOWHERE so I commenced by own 'completely scientific statistically significant survey' of four technologically challenged baby boomer readers of the novel. With 100% respondency, to a woman (all four participants were female) they found the book to be fantastic. Each respondent particularized commentary on the aspects of the story relating to the dissolution of personal privacy and security reflected by the minimally safe pathways of the internet. And, that appears to be the line of demarcation between rave and repudiate for this Deaver effort. Personally, I found it to be a reasonally intriguing mystery but a dreadfully trite thriller. TBN is little more than a variation on a pretty common theme, 'it takes a thief to catch a thief,' only in this instance the opponents are PC wizards, ironically having a shared history. As should be expected with any Deaver novel, there are more plot twists than a car dealership lease agreement but the story fails to reach the threshhold of thrilling. Additionally, for the individual who has a reasonable degree of systems-related competency, Mr. Deaver overlooked or just plain disregarded some inconsistencies and blatant inaccuracies that detract from the story serving to diminish one's willingness to accept plausibility. Obviously, it's only one opinion but each book since THE COFFIN DANCER has seemed to be just a bit lower in quality. THE BLUE NOWHERE is a decent story, it just isn't as scintillating as Mr. Deaver's better books.
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Summary: Thriller... Suspense..Twists.. Turns.. This book has it all
Review: I am a fan of Deaver, so when this came out I just had to pick it up. And I was not disappointed. The plot leaves you wanted more!! The twists and turns make you keep guessing who is real and who is 'socially engineered'. Great book!
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Summary: A real page turner
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed the Blue Nowhere. I found it to be a real page turner. I've never read anything by Jeffrey Deaver before but I found this book to be an engrossing thriller and a refreshing change from the usual murder mystery plots and investigations. I use computers every day and have for over ten years. While some of the information may have been somewhat inaccurate it didn't stop me from enjoying the story or the characters. It is fiction or at least I hope it is. I was swept up in the lives of Bishop, the police officer in charge, who in the beginning appears to be paying no attention to the case but proves later that he absorbed everything. I liked Gillette, the convicted computer hacker who showed a human side in trying to get his ex-wife back, and Shelton the cop who was dealing with his own personal problems. I thought it was a real credit to the author that he could convey the crime scenes and the violence so well without writing pages and pages going over the bloody details. After the "social engineering" was explained it became a game to figure out who was what they appeared to be. If you like puzzles and have any knowledge of computers I would strongly recommend this book.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Don't let the computer techs talk you out of reading this book! C'mon, guys, lighten up! This is a fictional story and not supposed to be a technical manual on computers! This is one of Deaver's best: a gripping, spooky thriller!If you are a nitpicky computer nerd, stay away from this book. If you love a scary-as-heck thriller with great characters, this is the book for you. Suspend your disbelief and get set for the ride of your life! I LOVED this book!
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