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Title: The Crocodile Bird by Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0-440-21865-9 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 10 October, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Spellbinding
Comment: I was intrigued by the title because I knew what a crocodile bird is/was. I did not know how the term would be worked into a mystery story. I soon learned much to my enjoyment.
I did not feel sorry for Lisa and the way she was over-protected by her mother. That was her life and the only one she knew. I thought that soon something would happen and she would be able to become a part of the real world.
I thought the way the author handled the things that Lisa gradually found out about was done very well. Never going to school or having friends her age, etc. must have been difficult, but then she did not know anything else.
I was pleased with the ending. You just know that Lisa went on and made a success of her life. Not the usual Rendell ending which usually is in chaos with the police car at the door.
Rating: 4
Summary: Strange, Absorbing, Fascinating.
Comment: ...........~ ~ ~ ~ * * * * ~ ~ ~ ~
~ ~ Ruth Rendell is a master, when she takes extremely strange situations, and examines them from the point of view of the people inside them, and we suddenly find ourselves starting to find the strangeness, familiar!
In this book, a young girl has been brought up in almost total isolation. She must flee, as her mother, who has cared for her all her life, is about to be arrested.
The tale is about the girl's first glimpse at life outside her own little "castle", but even more about the life she grew up in. She has seen a young man around the estate she grew up on, and she flees with him, living in his motor home.
The fascinating part of the story is her recounting of her truly fantastically strange life with her mother, which she tells in very "matter of fact" way.
The ending is just nerve-wrackingly suspenseful enough, and provides a sense of closure
I give this book 4 **** stars, as an extremely absorbing mysterious story. It's definitely not your ordinary who-dun-it!
Rating: 5
Summary: Among her very best.
Comment: This is really among one of her very best. the claustrophobic nature of the story is brought across really well in the atmosphere, tone, and overall description.
Ruth rendell's psychologically damaged characters are almost always really hard to read about, because they seem so normal right on the surface that they remind you of all the people you know in every day life, and you are not comfortable in your realisation that any of them coudl well be like the characters which populate her books.
The plot here is a simple one, but it is told stunningly well. Rendell is the Dickens of modern times. (That is no exaggeration) the way the story is told by Lisa, the way it slowly unfolds on a parrallel with lisa's new life is truly masterful. Rendell adds many nice little twists, and really gets the psychology dead one. The ending, unlike some of her books, is reassuring in that it seems to shimmer with a real hope and the knowledge that sometimes, despite the wrongs people have done, and had done to them, things can turn out right in the end...
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Title: Wolf to the Slaughter by Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0345345207 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Lake of Darkness by Ruth Rendell, Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0375704973 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Make Death Love Me by Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0385151845 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: July, 1979 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: One Across, Two Down by Ruth Rendell, Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0375704949 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Sins of the Fathers : An Inspector Wexford Mystery by Ruth Rendell ISBN: 0345342534 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 December, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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