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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780316018708
ISBN number: 0316018708
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: June 09, 2008
Publishing house: Little, Brown and Company
Release Date: June 09, 2008
Sale Popularity Level: 37
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. But only an hour out of port, everything is going wrong. The teenage daughter, Carrie, is planning to drown herself. The teenage son, Mark, is high on drugs and ten-year-old Ernie is nearly catatonic. This is the worst vacation ever.
Anne manages to pull things together bit by bit, but just as they begin feeling like a family again, something catastrophic happens. Survival may be the least of their concerns.
Written with the blistering pace and shocking twists that only James Patterson can master, SAIL takes 'Lost' and 'Survivor' to a new level of terror.
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Never having read a James Patterson book I took this up on the suggestion of a friend. The plot is pretty straight forward. A troubled family goes for a vacation in their deceased father's yacht in the endeavor to reconnect. A bomb goes off after a lengthy storm and they are on an uninhabited island. Shock of all shocks her husband is behind it! Will they get out alive? Will the husband find them before the search team? Will the do gooder detective beat them to the punch???
As you probably guessed this book is oozing cliques (he actually uses a TON of them in his descriptions), predictable plot lines and works more on building up suspense than characters who you can truly connect and relate to. This is not a sophisticated piece of writing and was probably done to make a few more bucks rather than to inspire, move or even showcase a true literary talent. However, it is an incredibly easy read and the suspense is done pretty well. I finished it in a couple hours and although it was cheesy, so are some of the sitcoms I have sat through.
I was curious about Patterson after all the hype surrounding some of his novels, and I don't hate the book, but I probably won't read another one of his books unless I want to take a break from thinking.
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I loved this story. I couldn't put the book down. In fact, I read it all in less than 24 hours. It was exciting, a real page turner. I loved what I thought as the very real dysfunctional family related to the death of their father, being raised with lots of money and privilege and teens who were typically rebellious and a mother who was too busy with her career to care. I do believe a lot of these families do exist. And to see them struggle but grow and mature with near disasters is heart warming. We can only hope that it could actually happen to families such as these.
The story was action packed--never a boring minute. The "new" husband was exactly the kind of guy known as a "gold digger". I was very happy that he turned out to be behind a lot of the chaos----happy to see him go down.
This kind of read is perfect for the beach or hot tub---pure entertainment, fast reading and exciting all the way to the end.
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This is the very first James Patterson book I've ever read. I am now inspired to become a best selling novelist because if this trash sells, anyone could do it ! What a waste of paper.
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Whatt could have been a stylish thriller about mere survival on the high seas turns into another cliched, predictable thrill-less plodding of wasted prose. The story line is no different in context then any of Patterson's poorly co-authored stand-alone books. (Don't call this a novel because that would be a tremendous insult to real novels).
Patterson created a style some time ago that fits the beach read criteria - quick-witted, fast-paced, escapist melodrama - but ideas and the dreadful use of co-authors have devoid the beach-read genre of any original ideas. Sail could have worked if the boat had not sunk in the very first 1/4 of the book. After that, it is a dreary, conspiratorial read where every character has been seen or read about before.
Avoid this at all cost. Don't even borrow it from the library or a friend. Send Patterson a message - stop writing! I know I will stop reading his paultry excuse for good reading.
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This book was simple. Not a book that would make you think. I am disappointed in the books that have James Patterson's name in large print on the cover.
It was like reading Danielle Steele and that's not a compliment.
Save your money, get it at the library.
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