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June 9th 2008
by Little, Brown and Company
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Hardcover, 400 pages
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0316018708
(isbn13: 9780316018708)
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Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans ...more
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This was a real good story and had a great ending...I am so glad he left out all that gory stuff, kept me on the edge of my seat. Don't know if I will be getting on a sailboat for a vacation any time soon!!
Patterson has won me back after this book...
Susan
Patterson has won me back after this book...
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Read in December, 2008
This story, with its many different layers and one disaster occuring after the next is riviting. (Sorry Lisa, I really wanted to hate it) The idea that so much could go wrong on one family vacation trip makes me feel bad for complaining about all the excursions my parents lugged us on as kids. They had nothing on this trip from hell. And then to come out of everything to discover that someone you loved and trusted set you up to die is infuriating...and they get away with it...sort of. The en...more
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Read in August, 2008
It’s been a while since I read a James Patterson book and even longer since I read one of his co-written adventures. I have to say they haven’t improved in my absence.
In this outing a dysfunctional family tries a last-ditch ‘save our family' bonding session on a sailing boat but things don’t go to plan. Shock horror.
The characters are universally one-dimensional and generally unbelievable. Evil lawyers, perfect mothers and cute-but-precious ten-year olds includ...more
In this outing a dysfunctional family tries a last-ditch ‘save our family' bonding session on a sailing boat but things don’t go to plan. Shock horror.
The characters are universally one-dimensional and generally unbelievable. Evil lawyers, perfect mothers and cute-but-precious ten-year olds includ...more
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Read in August, 2008
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James Patterson
Little, Brown & Co., 2008
ISBN: 9780316018708
5 Stars
Gripping…
When I think of the word sail, I think of placid waters, a blowing breeze, and a gentle lull of the water as it slaps against the hull. (I admit I have never been sailing and have romanticized the sport).
In James Patterson’s latest book Sail, the sea and voyage is anything but placid. What began as a vacation that would pull her family closer together quickly turned into ...more
Little, Brown & Co., 2008
ISBN: 9780316018708
5 Stars
Gripping…
When I think of the word sail, I think of placid waters, a blowing breeze, and a gentle lull of the water as it slaps against the hull. (I admit I have never been sailing and have romanticized the sport).
In James Patterson’s latest book Sail, the sea and voyage is anything but placid. What began as a vacation that would pull her family closer together quickly turned into ...more
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Sad to say, but I only made it about 45 pages into this book before I decided to move it along unread. The story sounded like it might be on shaky ground to begin with but I had heard such great things about the author that I was determined to give it a fair shot.
The story goes that a family that has recently fallen apart since the death of the father that acted as the linchpin takes a vacation on the very boat that was the scene of the father's death. Mom, who is a workaholic heart ...more
The story goes that a family that has recently fallen apart since the death of the father that acted as the linchpin takes a vacation on the very boat that was the scene of the father's death. Mom, who is a workaholic heart ...more
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Read in May, 2009
Sail is a fast-moving story that jumps back and forth from being an adventure/survival story to a suspense thriller to a courtroom drama. It's the story about Katherine Dunne who realizes her children are falling apart after the death of their father four years before--the college-age daughter is bulimic and depressed, the high school son is using drugs and doing badly in school, the ten-year-old boy can't figure out how to related with his family, and they all bicker and fight with each other c...more
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Action and suspense comes to the fore with this high-seas romped penned by Patterson and Roughan. The trouble centers around the Family Dunne, a sailboat owned by a 45-year-old heart surgeon named Katherine Dunne. The book actually belonged to her former husband Stuart, who had died years earlier in a scuba accident. Now, she is planning on taking her three kids for a watery vacation, which will kick off from Newport Rhode Island. Her brother-in-law, Jake will be along to the ride and help by ca...more
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Read in November, 2008
The Dunne family is going on a summer boating trip to "bond."
The mom, kat, is a doctor and has taken 2 months off work to be with her kids (Mark, Carrie, & Ernie). Mark is a high school sophomore who is doing drugs, and hates "hanging out" with his family. Carrie is at Yale; though she is having problems with bulimia. Ernie is overweight and very smart, making him a target of many bullies at school. Needless to say, the kids don't want to spend the summer together. ...more
The mom, kat, is a doctor and has taken 2 months off work to be with her kids (Mark, Carrie, & Ernie). Mark is a high school sophomore who is doing drugs, and hates "hanging out" with his family. Carrie is at Yale; though she is having problems with bulimia. Ernie is overweight and very smart, making him a target of many bullies at school. Needless to say, the kids don't want to spend the summer together. ...more
Awesome book!! Surprisingly, this was the VERY FIRST James Patterson book I read, and before reading it, I was not into reading books at all, not since I was much younger, in high school. I had tried to get back into reading over the years, but just didn't take the time to do so. I was at a book store and Sail happened to catch my eye on the book stand. So I bought it and ended up reading it in like 3 days!! This was just about 6 months ago. Since then, I have ready over 15 James Patterson...more
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Read in March, 2009
"Written with the blistering pace and shocking twists that only James Patterson can master, SAIL takes "Lost" and "Survivor" to a new level of terror."
Um...not so much! I've never read anything by James Patterson before, and I don't think I will again. I didn't like this one at all. I picked it up at the library because I like sailing and adventure, but this one was really boring. It was like an outline of a plot - there was no indepth look at characters...more
Um...not so much! I've never read anything by James Patterson before, and I don't think I will again. I didn't like this one at all. I picked it up at the library because I like sailing and adventure, but this one was really boring. It was like an outline of a plot - there was no indepth look at characters...more
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Read in August, 2008
A bit of a slow start, which is surprising from Patterson. Around the end of disc one the story takes off and doesn't stop twisting and turning until the last moments of the epilogue.
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Read in November, 2008
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Dr. Dunne had lost her husband and her family was falling apart. She worked long hours as a cardiac surgeon and yet had time to find another husband. Peter Carlyle was a lawyer and was indeed fantastic at what he did. They hadn't been married long but Kat Dunne decided that to save her family she needed to get them out of their messed up every day lives. She decided to spend two months sailing. Sailing on the very boat where her husband lost his life. Besides her three children Kat took he...more
This may be the stupidest book I have ever read. I ran to the library before our vacation to get some books to read at the beach. This book says on the back something like "may be the perfect book to read at the beach" so I checked it out. I haven't read any other books by this guy so I don't know if it is normal for him to write like this or not. I was in the mood for something sort of mindlessly entertaining but I wasn't expecting something designed for the absolutely lowest comm...more
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Read in November, 2008
Okay, this was pretty good. I loved Dylan Baker's narration. It took me a minute and then I was like, yes, the guy from Law and Order . . anyway, parts were a bit predictable to me but then some twists were good. there was one particular part of the plot I didn't love, but it was alright.
I'm sure I'm just being picky but I feel like Patterson writes women so melodramatic and always w/ a man as an anchor. I mean, in this one both main women reminisced about their grandfathers .. I don't kn...more
I'm sure I'm just being picky but I feel like Patterson writes women so melodramatic and always w/ a man as an anchor. I mean, in this one both main women reminisced about their grandfathers .. I don't kn...more
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Read in January, 2009
I have read several of James Patterson's books and found this one medicore. Its entertaining.. in a brainless sort of way.. which isn't BAD... but it could have been better. I read this in one weekend when John was away and I would put the kids to bed and hop in to bed with the dog and get to reading at 8pm! luxurious! :-) I found the plot to be barely believable and I wasn't really able to connect with any of the characters.. although at least the end was satisfying in that revenge sort of w...more
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Read in December, 2008
I finished this 388 page book in two days! Not because of it's so called 'blistering pace' either. The longest chapter was only two pages long! Obviously I'm not ruining the story line by telling you they get rescued, but Patterson skips over that part entirely as if a deadline to finish writing the book suddenly loomed before him. I must've missed the 'shocking twists' I read in the description. I can certainly see this being made into a movie...mark my words.
Needless to say, I w...more
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Read in June, 2009
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I am probably one of a few people who had never read a James Patterson novel. It’s funny how I receive all of his books (on what seems like a monthly basis) for review and he is always the first author to get snatched up by reviewers. With his newest novel Sail I decided I wanted to read Patterson for myself and let me tell you, it was a killer ride! No pun intended. Sail is James Patterson’s third novel co-written by Howard Roughan. It is being promoted as a summer thriller a...more
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I generally like Patterson. I typically dislike collaborations. So far, this book is very disappointing. We'll see what I have to say about it when I'm finished.
Ok, I'm finished. And, unfortunately, by that I mean that I stopped reading it. That's unusual for me. I can typically plow my way to the end of almost anything. But not this. It was just too... inane, unrealistic, badly written.
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Ok, I'm finished. And, unfortunately, by that I mean that I stopped reading it. That's unusual for me. I can typically plow my way to the end of almost anything. But not this. It was just too... inane, unrealistic, badly written.
Note to ALL writers: Do NOT collaborate. It usually ends badly. In this case it ende...more
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Read in July, 2008
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My mum.recommends it for: Anybody who wants' an esay-going book.
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