Sail
Little, Brown and Company - Little, Brown and Company
Release date: 2008-06-09
Hardcover
Author: Howard Roughan
Fiction, Fiction - Espionage / Thriller, Mystery/Suspense, Suspense, Thrillers, Fiction / General, Fiction / Suspense, Fiction / Thrillers, Problem families, Sailing, Widows
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Sail
Date undefinedAs a James patterson fan, I was deeply dissaointed with this book. Its obvious he is just letting his name be attached to books just to make money. This was more predictable, fake, and unrealistic than a silly movie.
I was flipping the pages literally stunned that each event was ACTUALLY happening because it was so stupid and surreal.
Dont waste your time. This book stinks.
Sail
Date undefinedJames Patterson has written some memorable thrillers but Sail seems to be written by a ghost writer who is new (or tired) of the genre and pushed to this book on the masses using the Patterson label. Don't get me wrong, this is a quick and easy read, but the characters never seem to grasp the readers interest. The scene is set when the dad is killed in a sailing accident and the family tumbles into chaos. The mother is a character that should have been written out of the story. The dialog seems to date back to the Twenties and the characters are all flat. Does this sound like the Patterson we know? I've given it three stars but could easily understand someone giving it one star - what I can't understand is someone giving it five stars.
Editor of the highly recommended novel: Fates by Georgiou Tino: Best of 2008
Sail
Date undefinedIs there really a James Patterson, or was he created by a computer too? "Sail" reads like a comic book. It is totally predictable. I can only imagine how this "book" was created. It appears to me that someone sat down at a computer with a grab bag of potential scripted happenings, pulled up a variety of them, and then wrote a "story" transitioning from one scripted event to another, sort of like panels in a comic strip. Sad to say, it appears Little, Brown and Company has "sold their soul," and is willing to crank out garbage to take advantage of a popular name. The story line is so trite! Don't waste your money on this bad joke of a book. Patterson must laugh all the way to the bank, assuming that there really is a Patterson!
