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 enlarge | Author: Patricia Cornwell
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Category: Book
List Price: $26.95
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Rating:  652 reviews
Sales Rank: 26216
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0399153934
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399153938
ASIN: 0399153934
Publication Date: October 23, 2007
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 Should be called Beating a Dead Horse November 11, 2008
Anonymustly (Wamego, KS United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really wanted to give this book zero stars but they won't let you do that...
In looking back over the list of Scarpetta books, a series I fell in love with long ago, I find it difficult to remember the last one I enjoyed. The characters have no redeeming qualities anymore and are completely unlikeable.
I think it's sort of silly to continue coming back to them when this obviously is not going to change so I'll make this my last Scarpetta read. Cornwell would be better off killing them all spectacularly with no hope of resurrection so she could quit flogging them and move on to something else. Unless of course she's lost the muse. Hmmm, maybe that's the problem.
This is the work of an awarding-winning author? November 8, 2008
P. Paus (Dallas, TX)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I too have never submitted a review but after discovering how bad it is I felt I just had to add my impression of this piece of work.
I agree with many of the complaints express on this site by other readers. I find it very choppy to the point of being frustrating with a rambling, poorly defined storyline. Cornwell just drops readers into conversations and situations with no set up at all. It is actually disorienting ...like when you walk in the middle of a conversation or event in real life. She also has many characters with few being very well developed and seemed to be short on coming up with creatively differing names. I found several characters were given very similar names that contributed to confusion.
What amazed me most are the sentence fragments. When I learned grammar I believe that one of the rules was: sentences had to contain a subject and a verb. I don't know, have they changed that rule? Is it a `creative writing' thing?
I also find this book boring and long on conversations that really don't seem to go anywhere but to express over and over again the character's (and perhaps the author's too) political views of which I could not care less.
The bio in the back of the book lists a number of awards the author has won, pointing out some very distinguished British awards never won by any other American author. If this is what they consider work worthy of such awards, then I question the awards.
 the more i read the more i wanted to know what next....... November 7, 2008
Aldo Mita (brooklyn)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Very interesting book. I never read any of her books before but this was definitely a book to read. The more i read the more i wanted to know what was going to happen next. Just great. You will not be dissapointed with this book.
really bad book November 5, 2008
traveler (houston)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Patricia Cornwell's Book of the Dead is beyond redemption. Bury it. I have never written a bad review before but this book deserves it. It was boring and the characters were not interesting or clear. The plot was incoherent. I forced myself to read it since I bought it retail $5.59 but it wasn't easy. Definitely not a good work. I will avoid her books in future if this is what she's come to.
 Dijointed October 30, 2008
Nash Black (Jamestown, KY)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had not read a Kay Scarpetta thriller for a long time and this was a big disappointment. It meandered all over the place, with characters changed completely for the original development. Everyone has problems but this is one thriller that produced boredom.
I stayed with it, but it wasn't until after 300 pages that the story started to take place. Then it rushed to an ending were nothing was resolved though the murder was caught, but everyone else went on their merry way to sin again.
Cornwell will have to do better than BOOK OF THE DEAD to resurrect what was once a great series.
Nash Black, HAINTS and WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS.
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