false <![CDATA[Shutter Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167322953m/21686.jpg 21686 37 <p>The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades -- with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.</p> 1234227 book 2003 Shutter Island total:4235|5:1075|4:1721|3:1079|2:278|1:82| 4235 16134 5801 916 4 3 false false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Jan 21 11:57:36 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 11:57:36 -0800 2008 Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island (Morrow, 2003)
William M. Valtos, The Authenticator (Hampton Roads, 2000)

Rarely, when I read, do three books come together so very well for one review. But such is the case here with The DaVinci Code, The Au...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Mon Sep 10 11:40:38 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 20:38:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 15:07:42 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 20:02:22 -0700 2008
This is not a standard Lehane novel; yes, it's set in Boston, but not the mean streets of Dorchester or Southie. It's set on an island in the early 1950's, and psychological and psychopharm...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Feb 05 09:47:22 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 09:47:47 -0800 2008
Shutter Island is a departure from the Kenzie/Gennaro series and
it's one of those novels that will certainly leave you pondering the whole story...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 13:05:06 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 07:52:51 -0700 2009 Shutter Island isn't as good as Mystic River, which I read just before this. Mystic River is an entire neighborhood of fleshed out characters that propelled its tragic plot. Shutter Island isn't so three dimensional. What it does have going for it is a taut plot full of suspense and mystery. This is...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Mar 16 16:42:38 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 16:42:48 -0700 2009 5 2 false false Sat Aug 23 20:10:15 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 20:10:24 -0700 2008 3 1 false true Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 11:26:28 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 05:21:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Feb 15 17:54:01 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 18:01:01 -0800 2008 5 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 04 10:00:30 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 07 11:23:49 -0800 2007 4 2 false false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 20:55:15 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 20:10:44 -0700 2009
And what an ending it was, although one I saw coming. I think it's because I've r...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 09:01:11 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 18:25:41 -0700 2009 1 too many Lehane is a story-teller and the book was like a game of Clue. There were many groan-out-loud similes which took the place of good writing as did the macho language used by Daniels and the officials at th...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 27 09:10:17 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 08 05:48:12 -0700 2008
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And then FORESHADOWING and CHARA...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Feb 06 22:55:23 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 19:34:25 -0800 2008
I hate to be that person, that party pooper saying "I saw it coming from a mi...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Mar 18 09:34:17 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 03 13:49:46 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 04:59:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 12:51:10 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 12:53:22 -0800 2009 I finished it a few days ago and it's been on my mind ever since. I love that.

I don't think there is anyway I could talk about the book without spoilers, so I'm not even going to try.
The end blew me away. Mouth gaping, I reread the last...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 12:32:48 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 13:20:31 -0700 2009 “I haven’t laid eyes on this island for several years. The last time was from a friend’s boat that ventured into the outer harbor, and I could see it off in the distance, past the inner ring, shrouded in the summer haze, a careless smudge of paint against the sky.” I thi...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 13:49:03 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 14:03:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=21686