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Review Date: 6/11/2015
11th Mitch Rapp book goes back to his initial training and first assignment, so it is 1st in the story order.
Review Date: 5/26/2016
A difficult subject made interesting and entertaining in its telling by this honest, straight-talking author. We learn how the overvalued real estate market in the U.S. led to the financial crisis of 2008. The crisis was fueled by an overheated market in mortgage bonds and their derivatives, including collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. It led to the destruction of nearly $2 trillion of wealth.
The story is told through the eyes of 10 or 12 people in the financial industry who were deeply involved in what was happening. Several of these people were among the few who saw what was coming and profited greatly from the financial collapse by taking "Big Short" positions of buying credit default swaps. Well written, fast moving and very informative.
The story is told through the eyes of 10 or 12 people in the financial industry who were deeply involved in what was happening. Several of these people were among the few who saw what was coming and profited greatly from the financial collapse by taking "Big Short" positions of buying credit default swaps. Well written, fast moving and very informative.
Review Date: 9/13/2014
#2 Alex Delaware mystery, pub. 1986. Parents of child with cancer refuse treatment for him; the mystery is who his parents really are.
Review Date: 9/10/2015
Horror novel published in 2004 about computer matchmaking. A perfect match went awry when a double suicide occurred with one, and then another, of the "supercouples". I liked the technology and the psychology in the story.
Review Date: 11/16/2023
Dennis Lehane deserves to be included among the most interesting and accomplished American novelists of any genre or category. -Washington Post Book World
Review Date: 3/7/2015
6th Dr. Scarpetta book, published 1995; the country's worst serial murderer is after Dr. Kay Scarpetta. I still enjoy how Patricia Cornwell writes; it's natural, smooth.
Review Date: 7/8/2015
Sequel to The Gold Coast, about John Sutter and the Bellarosa crime family, pub. 2008. It was not a fast-paced action thriller as some of DeMille's books are but, rather, about family dynamics that evolved throughout the book.
Review Date: 12/2/2015
The Girl on the Train uses the same construct device as A Visit From the Goon Squad -- story told from different character's point of view and in different time frames -- but this book is as good as that one was bad! Paula Hawkins was able to use the device to develop the story and tension in a way it could not have been accomplished otherwise, creating a tight, suspenseful chiller.
The book alternates among three women's stories, with Rachel, reeling from her divorce, as the primary narrator. Each morning during her commute from a suburb into London, her train slows on the same section of track behind a row of Victorian houses. Two houses there interest her: one is her former residence and the current home of her ex-husband, Tom, and his new wife, Anna; the other is home to an attractive, couple who frequently appear on their back terrace. Anna and the attractive woman are the other two points of view telling the story which propels along, picking up speed as the story develops.
The book alternates among three women's stories, with Rachel, reeling from her divorce, as the primary narrator. Each morning during her commute from a suburb into London, her train slows on the same section of track behind a row of Victorian houses. Two houses there interest her: one is her former residence and the current home of her ex-husband, Tom, and his new wife, Anna; the other is home to an attractive, couple who frequently appear on their back terrace. Anna and the attractive woman are the other two points of view telling the story which propels along, picking up speed as the story develops.
Review Date: 7/27/2014
Murder mystery, family saga, love story, financial intrigue all take place in Sweden to badass hacker girl Lisbeth Salander.
Review Date: 1/8/2015
Interesting, not great.
Review Date: 5/15/2015
Emmy Dockery, FBI research agent, is obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of arson cases hiding murders. While I am not a fan of James Patterson and his cardboard characters, this book was better than most. The plot was good enough to help make up for the lack of depth of the characters. I read it while on vacation at a resort and that no doubt helped.
Review Date: 10/20/2014
The Kite Runner is the story of a boy who grew up in Afghanistan during the last days of the monarchy, through revolution, the Taliban and the Soviet invasion. It is poignant and beautifully written and includes all the things that make a great story: loyalty, weakness, betrayal, guilt, lies, sex, secrets, violence, an attempted suicide, rejection and love.
Review Date: 2/20/2015
It was compulsively entertaining and that's what you sometimes want from a novel. A boy whose 9-yr. old brother was kidnapped was guilt-ridden for years and then was confronted by him when they were in their 30's. The long-lost brother then kidnapped his wife and son and things got weird.
Review Date: 12/1/2014
1997 Suspense novel about a serial killer who penetrated highly secure, sexually explicit, online service.
Review Date: 10/27/2014
One woman's life and the loves that shaped her -- her mother, her first love, and her husband's love, in Virginia and coastal Maine where she grew up in the 1960's. The characters are vibrant, three-dimensional characters and the writing is beautiful. The ending is unexpected but fitting.
Review Date: 12/27/2014
Book #6 in the John Corey Series, a direct sequel to The Lion, takes place in Yemen; pub. 2012. The plot is tissue paper thin, bloated, mostly predictable and, except for the last 60-70 pages, seriously lacking in action and suspense. The object is for John Corey and his wife Kate Mayfield to hunt down a particular terrorist in Yemen. The whole book was painfully, meticulously, and ploddingly moving toward that goal through all the boring aspects of getting there such as paperwork and packing. There was no cat-and-mouse going on between the protagonist and antagonist; they met up at the end of the book and the Panther died. The End.
Review Date: 2/7/2015
If this had been the first Iris Johansen book I had read it would have been have been the last. It was long, drawn out, convoluted, and far-fetched. I thought it would never end. We're supposed these present-day people find letters left by ancients Greeks around 8,000 B.C. And read them, no translation required, and they read as though written in the present era. Unbelievable!
Review Date: 6/19/2015
First Hannibal Lecter book, published in 1981, the sequel of which is the novel, The Silence of the Lambs, published in 1988.
Review Date: 10/30/2013
I read this because I liked The Ice Limit, but this was not as good.
Review Date: 5/4/2015
A two-family saga about life on either side of a two-family house in a New England college town, an older couple, the Senator and his wife, and a young, just married couple.
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