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Whistle Stopper - The Quickie
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List Price: $14.99
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Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446501644
ISBN: 0446501646
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date: 2008-04-01
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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Summary: MUST READ!
Comment: This is one of the best books I've read in a LONG time! I read this in less than 24 hours during the work week!!!!! This book keeps you guessing and has a few twists just when you think you've figured it all out.
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Summary: Mass Production
Comment: Although I usually like books by Patterson, the Quickie wasn't as good as his other novels. I found it rather flat and underdeveloped, as if the author had to make a deadline and did not have time to devote more to the story and its characters. I did finish reading it but I do not recommend it as a good reading. What I do recommend instead is The Burden of Proof which I read recently. Turow's novel is just the opposite to Quickie - it is actually 'too well' developed and I would cut 100 pages of it if I could, but it is otherwise very good reading.
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Summary: Flawed but fun
Comment: The last Patterson book I read was Honeymoon. It was shallow, entertaining, but a heck of a page turner. What more do you need for a summer book? The Quickie follows a similar pattern; short chapters, lots of twists and turns, and plenty of action. The Quickie is written in the first person by a woman seeking revenge after seeing her husband with another woman; mayhem ensues (how's that for a quick plot summary?). The Quickie is definitely a quickie, I finished it in two days, and two days is probably about how long I will remember it. It is definitely a fun escape, but parts of the book are so implausible I caught myself rolling my eyes, even more than during Honeymoon.
The Quickie is full of just about every cliché known to this genre, including evidence tampering, blackmail, and others I won't list because they could be spoilers; but think of any cliché, and you will probably find it in this book.
Does all this mean I don't recommend The Quickie? Not at all. Just go in with the expectation to be entertained....and not much more.
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Summary: Loved it!
Comment: This was one of my favorites by James Patterson. I couldn't put the book down.....the ending was awesome!
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Summary: putdownnable
Comment: I could figure out the surprises and turn of events long before they happened...plus I had no feelings at all for Lauren, the heroine, she was presented in a generic "paint by numbers" every woman manner..nothing interesting or unique......I read the first hundred pages...then zipped to the end....and sure enough I'd already figured it out..and since I didn't care about the people in it..since they were lifeless stereotypes, I forgot it....Crooked policemen..wow that's something new...the NO police chief was reputed to say....I try to catch more criminals...than I hire...(and often don't succeed)...Why don't they delve more into the main character's personality..make them seem human instead of cardboard......I forgot the novel instantly....Talk about "dumbing down" drivel..
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Editorial Reviews:
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When Lauren Stillwell discovers her husband leaving a hotel room with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But while she's sneaking around, her husband is hatching a plan of his own. After a torrid quickie with a co-worker, Lauren hears a struggle outside her window and looks out just in time to see her husband loading her lover's limp body into the trunk of a car. When the body shows up in a pool of shallow water, she races to the scene of the crime. But Lauren Stillwell is no regular wronged woman. She's a NYC cop--and she's just been assigned to this case. Unable to tell anyone what she saw and unwilling to turn her husband in, Lauren is paralyzed by a secret that will tear her life apart. But as she attempts to point fingers away from her husband, she uncovers something shocking: her husband didn't have an affair--what he did was far worse than she could have ever imagined. A gripping story of secrets and infidelities that begins where Adrian Lyne's movie Unfaithful leaves off, THE QUICKIE will have readers' hearts pounding to the very last page.
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