What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
Synopsis:
When a correctional officer climbs to the top of his watchtower and opens fire on the inmates and guards, federal investigator Marcus Williams and serial killer Francis Ackerman Jr. must join forces again to unearth the truth behind the incident. What they find is a serial killer using the prison as his hunting grounds. But the Judas Killer's ambitions don't end with a few murders. He wants to go down in history and has no reason left to live.
With Ackerman undercover among the inmates and Marcus tracking down the mastermind on the outside, the team must learn the identity of the Judas Killer and stop a full-scale uprising that he's orchestrated. But the more they learn about what's happening at the prison and why the more enemies they must face. From inside the overrun facility, Marcus and Ackerman must save the hostages and stop an elaborate escape attempt while trying to determine how a rival corporation, the leader of one of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations, and an inmate with no identity only known as Demon fit into the Judas Killer's plans.
Launching a bold new cycle of novels featuring The Shepherd Organization, The Judas Game is searing, mesmerizing fiction—it's Ethan Cross at his very best.
- Jojowrites4All
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The plot is simple, the suspense limited, the characters thinly drawn, and the underlying tone sexist and lacking emotion.
The novel is relatively short, simple and easy to read, engaging to a point, but devoid of dramatic tension and plot complexity that modern books of this ilk do so much better,
It has the charm and period qualities of the 1950s, which adds to its appeal. Apart from that, I learned exactly how to make a Bond martini and more about the game of baccarat than I will ever need to know,
I'm not rushing to the next James Bond novel, but neither I have foresworn that I will never read another one.
3.5 stars out of 5
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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Primarily written for children, it is nevertheless wonderfully rewarding for adults to read and contemplate its simple but powerful messages.
The Little Prince comes to Earth from his own one person planet, where he has a flower and three volcanoes, one extinct, after visiting several other very small one man planets of his journeys,
On Earth, he encounters a pilot, the story's narrator, who is stranded in the desert, attempting to repair his airplane.
In this very short allegorical story, Saint-Expury has captured the charm of the perspectives of children, focusing the most important things in life, At the same time, he exposes the folly of adult thinking, with its focus on the importance of wealth, power, indulgence and regard for material objects.
Full of beauty, wisdom and surrealistic delight, this is a tale for all ages, a moral tale whose values are timeless and irrefutable.
"It is only with the heart that we can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
4.5 stars out of 5
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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Unusually the narrator of this story is the soon to be born foetus as it contemplates itself in the context of it's mother and her lover as they plan and execute the murder of its natural father.
IMO the voice of the foetus is wholy unrealistic and I just did not get how it could have such worldy understand and knowledge ... it just did not ring authentic to me. There is much of Hamlet in this story and anyone familiar with the play will find lots of paralles.
All in all I give it 1/4*
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My rating would be 3.5/5
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Sweeping across the US, the Indian Wars and the Civil War this is one terrific read ... hard to believe only 258 pages could cover so much ground. Sebastian Barry brings America of the 1850s to vivid life, the great plains, the herds of buffalo and the mining towns, the extremes of weather and the people who traverse this splendid paradise.
Beautifully written, I absolutely loved this book and was so very sorry to get to the last page. Highly recommend it 4/4*
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