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Summary: Don't waste your money...
Review: Scarpetta's Winter Table could've been written by a high school english class. The prose is horrible, the plot is pointless, and the recipes can't be recreated.
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Summary: The typos are not typos - they are references
Review: The earlier reviewer who complained about the misspelling of yolks as yokes clearly missed the point. This is a joke, because Marino uses the word "yoke" frequently to mean choke or strangle. It's a play on words! Don't let the other review deter you.
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Summary: Yes, you really do have to be kidding.
Review: This "book" is in fact over priced at $20.00. I read it courtesy of the local library. It is solely for those with literally nothing better to do. Cornwell should have known better. The only believeable character in the entire volume is Jimmy Simpson. It would truely have been great if Cornwell had kept Jimmy on in the succeeding Scarpetta novels. The kid would have been good for Marino. But she has apparently been intending to get rid of Marino all the time in spite of this.
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Summary: Just about the dumbest...
Review: This book has only one redeeming quality: it's very short. The story line is skimpy, trite, and predictable. I'm glad I read a library copy and didn't pay money for this piece of fluff. Obviously Cornwell, or her publisher, thinks anything will sell so long as it has her name on it.
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Summary: A meeting of friends.
Review: This book was not meant to be a suspense novel. It was more of a gathering of favorite characters with whom the reader enjoys. I enjoyed this book for what it was. If you really love Kay and Marino, give this a try for a light read. It's like having them over for company.
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Summary: Did Cornwell write this story? I have my doubts..........
Review: This book will just scarsely tide over an avid Kay Scarpetta fan. Most of the readers have lived vicariously through Scarpetta's trials and tribulations, and this tale is like tasting the icing on a glorious buttercream cake. I feel that someone else may have wrote this, not Cornwell herself. The languages of Marino and Farinelli are not Cornwell's..at leat not anything that I have read before. And when did Lucy develop friends? That is odd. But then again, characters grow, and I will be eager to see if these friends of hers pop up in later works. The idea of Marino making eggnog is not to forien. Though I would assume that he would pick up a carton on the way to her house, some men so callused do have tradition. I, being a Chef, did enjoy the cooking that Cornwell shares through Scarpetta. Hopefuly, this is just something that Cornwell tossed together, not an ending to her long loved series of a strong woman, her life and friends, and her niece that should have been her own daughter.
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Summary: Beautiful Gift Book for Scarpetta Enthusiasts
Review: This slim, black and white book is a wonderful gift for fans of Dr. Kay Scarpetta. The book is structured into fiction-like chapters, with headings for the "recipes." The recipes are not strictly linear recipes. There are no lists of ingredients here, just stories to accompany the food. For example, on page 5 you will find a recipe for "Marino's Cause of Death Eggnog." The author uses a play on words with "yokes" to insinuate the kind of death that was approaching. The recipe includes the dialogue of the characters (Marino, Lucy, and Scarpetta) as Marino makes the eggnog, and the characters sip it. On page 93, Dr. Kay herself gives a personal note to the reader. "Since the fun of this is that no concoction will ever be the same, you are encouraged to take notes." Five pages of note-lined paper follow this challenge. This little note is the key to this cookbook: since the recipes are not exact, enjoy yourself by making them up! The book provides only basic outlines of the ingredients. It's up to you to decide how much salt or how many eggs! Lose yourself in Scarpetta's world! This is a wonderful treasure for fans of Patricia Cornwell. The free-flowing dialogue makes for a unique and unorthodox collection of recipes.
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Summary: Scarpetta's Winter Table
Review: This was a gift for my Mom who is a serious Kay Scarpetta fan. She wrote and told me that if I had asked her if she wanted a Patrica Cornwell book for Christmas, she would have said she had them all...however, she told me she had never heard of this book before and was loving every minute she read it....what helped me decide to purchase this book for her was one of the online reviews that said if someone was a serious Patricia Cornwell fan then they would enjoy this book...it's true...she does! Thank you so much...
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Summary: My Mom Loves this Book
Review: This was a gift for my Mom who is a serious Kay Scarpetta fan. She wrote and told me that if I had asked her if she wanted a Patrica Cornwell book for Christmas, she would have said she had them all...however, she told me she had never heard of this book before and was loving every minute she read it....what helped me decide to purchase this book for her was one of the online reviews that said if someone was a serious Patricia Cornwell fan then they would enjoy this book...it's true...she does! Thank you so much...
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Summary: Scarpetta's Winter Table
Review: This was an interesting, fun little book and made me want to try out the recipes. I have read all of the Scarpetta books and thoroughly enjoyed each of them. This is in part because I am a Virginian and know the streets and communities about which Cornwell writes. This is one of the two Cornwell books I do not own and would like very much to see re-printed as I hope to collect all of her work.
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