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Title: The Thomas Berryman Number by James Patterson ISBN: 0-446-60045-8 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (20 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Different side of Patterson revealed in Berryman...
Comment: If you are looking for the same type of writing and the same intensity as Patterson's more recent books, you will not find it here. Though many may find this novel dissapointing, I can not imagine that this is the worst book that any one of you has ever read- unless your reading list is quite miniscule. I can think of many books that are worse than this one. My advice to other readers is to read this book just to read THIS particular book. If you dive into it with any preconceived notions and are looking for another Kiss the Girls, then you will most definately be dissapointed. This book is another side to Patterson. It is a completely different style of writing than his recent novels- but is still unique and worth reading. And keep in mind that someone must have enjoyed it- it won a major literary award. If you want Alex Cross, you won't find him here, but you will find a novel that is still worth exploring. Remember to keep an open mind and you may just find that this novel is worth more than mere kindling for your fire.
Rating: 3
Summary: Entertaining Story, Bad Southern Dialogue
Comment: This is a fast-paced, suspenseful, and angular tale, but the ending becomes apparent about halfway through. I recommend it because it's entertaining and fun to read.
Patterson definitely understands pacing, but he needs to study local dialects a little more. People in Nashville don't talk like people from the deep south. When he writes his Nashville characters' words in dialect form, he makes them sound like they are from Georgia or Alabama. People native to middle Tennessee have Appalachian tinged accents for the most part. (Of course the degree varies based on region, schooling, and so forth). Appalachian speakers drag their words out more, they don't clip them or round them off like folks from the deep south. I know because I have many relatives in Tenn. What he did was akin to giving a Minnesota native a Chicago accent.
Rating: 2
Summary: Patterson thinks he is recreating the JFK assasination
Comment: This book is very boring. The storyline is simple - a politician gets shot as there are people wishing him to be dead. A hitman is given the contract. Simple.
Yet James Patterson uses a shifting timeline to confuse the reader. He thinks that he is recreating the JFK assasination conspiracies.
The only two good books ever written by James Patterson were "Kiss the Girls" and "Along Came A Spider". Rest of his books have been just banal and not enticing at all.
Of late all his books like "1st to Die" and "2nd Chance" etc (with the murder club characters in San Francisco) are written with the expectation that some TV company will make a show out of it. The stories are not at all exciting and have far too many coincidences and either predictable or no suspense at all.
I think Patterson has had his 15 minutes of fame and now is just capitalising on his brand name to churn out drivel.
Try reading some classic Lawrence Sanders if you love suspense and good detective work.
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Title: Season of the Machete by James Patterson ISBN: 0446600474 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: See How They Run by James Patterson ISBN: 0446603929 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Midnight Club by James Patterson ISBN: 0446606383 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Black Friday by James Patterson ISBN: 0446609323 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Miracle on the 17th Green : A Novel about Life, Love, Family, Miracles ... and Golf by James Patterson, Peter de Jonge ISBN: 0316693359 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 05 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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