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The Gate House (John Sutter #2)
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille delivers the long-awaited follow-up to his classic novel The Gold Coast.
When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that str...more
When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that str...more
Hardcover, 770 pages
Published
October 28th 2008
by Grand Central Publishing
(first published January 1st 2008)
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Jeffrey
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No one its too long too wordy and just not worth wading through
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read-in-2008
THis unthrilling thriller spends an inordinate amount of time setting up the same basic plot from the Gold Coast. The sly innuendos of John Sutter and his trenchant observations of Long Island life are fairly well missing from this bloated volume. I really hate when a hardcover book is 674 pages and you read 430 and only 2 or 3 days have gone by. DeMille should have tried to write something fresh. This gargantuan tale is best left unread.
First off, I'd like to know who wrote the official goodreads description of this book - a sequel to the CLASSIC novel The Gold Coast?? This English major might take exception to that very presumptuous comment.
I've been a big DeMille fan since the 80's, greatly appreciating his sarcasm, wit, and plots where regular guys get to be badasses. I've got to admit to a little disappointment here. Susan, the mafia don's lover/killer in The Gold Coast, was never a very sympathetic character...more
I've been a big DeMille fan since the 80's, greatly appreciating his sarcasm, wit, and plots where regular guys get to be badasses. I've got to admit to a little disappointment here. Susan, the mafia don's lover/killer in The Gold Coast, was never a very sympathetic character...more
What I didn't want at the end of the day were any old regrets. What I really needed now were some new regrets. -- John Sutter, in Nelson DeMille's The Gate House
OK, so after your fabulously wealthy Gold Coast society wife murdered her Mafia-boss lover ten years ago, you divorced her and sailed around the world for three years before you settled down in London, and now that you're back in the U.S. you're staying in the gatehouse of your ex-wife's ancestral estate, only to find that sh...more
OK, so after your fabulously wealthy Gold Coast society wife murdered her Mafia-boss lover ten years ago, you divorced her and sailed around the world for three years before you settled down in London, and now that you're back in the U.S. you're staying in the gatehouse of your ex-wife's ancestral estate, only to find that sh...more
This was the sequel to the Gold Coast, which I loved. The main character was very sarcastic, which I love. The story was stupid. Only finished it because of the sarcasm. Actually, I only finished it because of my OCD.
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This book was so entertaining! I listened to parts and read parts and loved it. The story was a bit far fetched and unbelievable but it was just so much fun. I laughed out loud at many parts. The best thing about Nelson Demille is his main characters, John Sutter in this book and John Cory in others. They are both similar in their wit and sarcasm. I think the book would be enjoyable even if you di...more
This book was so entertaining! I listened to parts and read parts and loved it. The story was a bit far fetched and unbelievable but it was just so much fun. I laughed out loud at many parts. The best thing about Nelson Demille is his main characters, John Sutter in this book and John Cory in others. They are both similar in their wit and sarcasm. I think the book would be enjoyable even if you di...more
John Sutter has returned back home to the Gold Coast, after being away for three years. It seems already though news of his arrival has made its way to the Bellarosa family. It’s like John is seeing an old ghost in Frank Bellarosa’s son, Anthony. Anthony has a plan to try and convince John to head back into the dark, gritty world and work for the Bellarosa family again. As if that wasn’t enough, John runs into his wife Susan. Susan and John are willing to give their relationship second change bu...more
This book is very, very long and NOTHING HAPPENS until the last 30 pages. Our hero drives around the Gold Coast, reminisces about events that happened in another book ("The Gold Coast'), has sex with his ex-wife an unlikely number of times (I have one word for you, Mr. DeMille: cystitis; wait, here's another one: chafing), and drinks. Also, the author has a weird quirk when he describes people talking. Hs dialog looks like this:
"Hello," I informed my ex-wife as s...more
"Hello," I informed my ex-wife as s...more
This book is not the sequel of The Gold Coast - at least not a decent sequel to The Gold Coast. The re-hashing of the story over and over and over again is tiresome. If we're reading the sequel we probably already know that Susan had an affair with a Mafia Don and then killed him. And we know all the feelings of the other characters.
Nothing is happening in this story - about 125 pages in - I guess Mr. DeMille is using the Highschool Students way of padding a paper with repetitio...more
Nothing is happening in this story - about 125 pages in - I guess Mr. DeMille is using the Highschool Students way of padding a paper with repetitio...more
I am torn on this book. I loved the writing - the main character, John's, sardonic wit. I love the narrative. It had me laughing out loud, probably because that's the same way my mind works. But I was pretty much over the book when it took him, after agonizing 10 years, 5 minutes and a roll in the hay to reunite w/ his ex-wife. Well, that was just pretty easy, wasn't it? I found most of the book to be predictable and slow moving. It was more like reading someone's diary than a novel. Yaw...more
This was a sequel to DeMille's earlier novel, The Gold Coast. You should know that this book is of little use to anyone that didn't read the first one. I enjoyed The Gold Coast ... mostly because I lived for a couple of years on Long Island and I knew many of the places that were referenced in the book. However, I didn't live in the mansion-sized estates described in both books ... so I found that aspect of the novels to be very interesting. I 'spose that the geographic thrill wouldn't be th...more
First of all, I am not author-bashing. I have read a couple of other Nelson DeMille novels that I thoroughly enjoyed. When The Gate House first came out, I had not yet read The Gold Coast, prequel to this book, so I read the earlier book first. Although I didn't really like The Gold Coast, I read this novel anyway, and in retrospect, that was a mistake. Without giving too much away (there is very little to give away and I don't want to spoil what few surprises there are), both books are abou...more
So I'm a pretty big Nelson DeMille fan, but I haven't read any of his "Edith Wharton" social satire stuff before. It's pretty good, but I am more of a fan of his military/Vietnam war stuff. The Gate House is by a Nelson DeMille I don't know as well, although it's a sequel and it's good enough that I want to go back and read the first book, The Gold Coast.
Also, I'm still in the first year of my "a book a week for a year," and I'm up to something like 55 or 56 boo...more
Also, I'm still in the first year of my "a book a week for a year," and I'm up to something like 55 or 56 boo...more
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I'm just finishing this book. I've read Nelson DeMille before (The Charm School left the biggest impression on me). He can tell a good tale, and I was reminded of him when I saw The General's Daughter on TV the other day. So, when I spotted The Gate House at the library, I decided to give it a try....
This novel is set on the Gold Coast of Long Island and features ultra-rich peops who get mixed up with the Mafia. The plot is very loose and filled with accounts of the everyday activiti...more
This novel is set on the Gold Coast of Long Island and features ultra-rich peops who get mixed up with the Mafia. The plot is very loose and filled with accounts of the everyday activiti...more
This book was not at all what I expected. Not specifically in a good or bad way, just much different. The book is told from John Sutter's perspective, and it's told in past tense. Much like he's reading his own diary of a past event. The reader of this book was awesome. His voice and cadence as well as sarcasm was perfect for the story that was being told.
John Sutter is an interesting character. He's an attorney who has returned to New York from London to help settle the estat...more
John Sutter is an interesting character. He's an attorney who has returned to New York from London to help settle the estat...more
This was an okay book, but not an awesome book, in my opinion. I didn't read The Gold Coast prior to this one, but there was enough backstory to explain what this book was about. In fact, the first 200 or so pages went on and on (almost ad nauseum) about John Sutter's ex-wife, Susan, and her affair with and subsequent killing of her Mafia don lover. This mantra was repeated so often I was ready at one point to shout "Okay, enough already! We know your ex-wife was screwing around on you ...more
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This book was recommended to me by three people. I dont know how they could have all been so wrong. This book 786 pages long of pure unadulterated torture. This book could have EASILY been 250-300 pages and not lost any of the story and it probably wouldnt have been that bad. the fact that DeMille chooses to stretch out the most trivial of details and side stories that HAVE NO MEANING TO THE PLOT is irritating as shit. I put down the book halfway through and was not going to finish it but I coul...more
I'm so disappointed!!! I really enjoyed DeMille's "Gold Coast" but this was BORING! I listened to it on CD as usual and it was like 15 CDs. I was not really into the characters and wasn't really crazy about the reader but I kept listening because I wanted to see what the twist was going to be and hear all the action. By the 10th or so CD, nothing had happened! I had to give up. The book was due back to the library and I wasn't going to risk a fine for this. I had planned to just return...more
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John Sutter returns from London where he went after his former wife, Susan, killed her Mafia don lover, Frank Bellarosa. Now he's back in the Gold Coast of Long Island. He's there for a funeral of a friend and former family employee.
Anthony Bellarosa shows up in Sutter's home and offers him a job.
Sutter sees his former wife and believes that Bellarosa might want revenge on her for killing his father.
Sutter and Susan become intimate and agree to remarry. When Anthony finds out...more
Anthony Bellarosa shows up in Sutter's home and offers him a job.
Sutter sees his former wife and believes that Bellarosa might want revenge on her for killing his father.
Sutter and Susan become intimate and agree to remarry. When Anthony finds out...more
I'm not going to write a synopsis of this novel because others have done it well at amazon.com, but I will put down my opinion.
I love Nelson DeMille, and while I haven't read all his books, I've read many of them, and recommended them. This one? Not so much. This book was in need of a serious editor, someone not full of himself or afraid to tell DeMille that his main character was way too full of himself. The book could have been written in half the pages while maintaining the ...more
I love Nelson DeMille, and while I haven't read all his books, I've read many of them, and recommended them. This one? Not so much. This book was in need of a serious editor, someone not full of himself or afraid to tell DeMille that his main character was way too full of himself. The book could have been written in half the pages while maintaining the ...more
I read the Goodreads review, fortunately even the ones marked "spoilers"didn't contain any real spoilers, having just finished Gold Coast tonight.
"Suspension of disbelief is a key element to enjoy some really interesting fiction". I very much enjoyed Gold Coast, and found that The Gate House did not let me down. DeMille's style uses a narration provided by the main character John Whitman Sutter, who returns to New York from London as he has promised to look afte...more
"Suspension of disbelief is a key element to enjoy some really interesting fiction". I very much enjoyed Gold Coast, and found that The Gate House did not let me down. DeMille's style uses a narration provided by the main character John Whitman Sutter, who returns to New York from London as he has promised to look afte...more
I am a little disappointed. There were not the usual twists and turns associated with his books. I thought how he resolved his estrangement with his wife was very odd (2 hours to reslove a 10 year estrangement?). I couldn't put the book down, but it had nothing to do with the story line. I just kept waiting for the book to meet my very high expectations.
Maybe it's me, but I don't think I will finish this book. I was so excited to have a new DeMille to read, but the first 150 pages are almost painful. The writing is flat and repetitious. His John Whitman Sutter tries too hard to be funny. And every other thought in his head is "my wife killed her lover, a Mafia don". I'm bored and disappointed.
I finished 'The Gate House' by Nelson DeMille yesterday, I'm going in a few minutes to get another novel to read, I'll let you know what it is. I want to say this about this book: DeMille captures the good, the bad and the ugly as well as the beauty and joy of a real kind of love that compels the characters to be willing to sacrifice ALL unselfishly for one another. It takes awhile to grasp the scope of what DeMille has created here because it's hard to get past the snobbery and the perspective ...more
Anyone who gets me to read about the wealthy of Long Island has to be a good writer and DeMille did it in a big way. Of course the heart of the story is still a thriller but a character-driven one. (Does that make it a literary thriller? Aren't those terms mutually exclusive? They better not be because that's how I'm describing Black Wind, my new novel) But John Whitman Sutter's often but not always unspoken dissection of the old money class's frame of mind made the non-thriller part of the sto...more
There are times when I'm glad I have a long commute to and from work that allows me lots of time to listen to audio books. This was one of those occassions because had I not listened to this novel over a two week period and instead tried to read it at my normal pace, I think I would have a less favorable opinion of it.
I've been a big fan of Nelson DeMille and have read most of his published works. This particular novel is a sequel to "The Gold Coast", a novel that the aut...more
I've been a big fan of Nelson DeMille and have read most of his published works. This particular novel is a sequel to "The Gold Coast", a novel that the aut...more
Oops! I listened to the sequel without reading the first book! However, the author did a wonderful job of filling in enough to provide background. This book is set among the very rich on Long Island, in a post 9-11 world. The characters are wonderfully quirky; the suspense is intense. John Sutter--that name has to have some sort of symbolic tie-in with the setting on the Gold Coast--is the sort of character who always has a sarcastic comeback or comment, even if he does have enough common s...more
Painfully boring and I wish I had the time back that I wasted on this thing. If this is classic DeMille then this is my last time I will read anything of his.
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Nelson Richard DeMille was born in New York City on August 23, 1943 to Huron and Antonia (Panzera) DeMille. He moved as a child with his family to Long Island. In high school, he played football and ran track.
DeMille spent three years at Hofstra University, then joined the Army and attended Officer Candidate School. He was a First Lieutenant in the United States Army (1966-69) and saw ...more
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DeMille spent three years at Hofstra University, then joined the Army and attended Officer Candidate School. He was a First Lieutenant in the United States Army (1966-69) and saw ...more
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