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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 'Shutter Island' is well written, fast paced and full of twists and turns. I loved this book so much I read through most of it in a single sitting. I was just a little bit disappointed in the ending because I had figured out almost everything long before it was revealed. (  ) kimifly | Nov 30, 2009 |  US Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule arrive at Ashcliff Hospital for the criminally insane on isolated Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of inmate/patient Rachel Solando. As a hurricane approaches and Teddy begins to suspect that the hospital is carrying out illegal and experimental procedures, he begins to realise that his own life may be in danger. The best thriller I've read in years, with a breath-taking conclusion. Highly recommended. (  ) Elishibai | Nov 24, 2009 | A fast paced read with plenty of twists and turns. The author carefully thought out the steps needed to completely fool the reader. And to a large extent that comes off extremely well. Unfortunately I had figured it out early on and started focusing more on character development than anything else. Through most of the novel it felt as if Lehane used well working recipes from authors like Stephen King and Jeffrey Deaver to drive characters through horrible and inexplicable events. I was hoping to see a bit more in depth psychological narrative other than the constant battle of wit-analysis between the protagonist and everyone else around him. All in all a good read and I'm eager to read more of Lehane's work. ( ) TheCriticalTimes | Nov 22, 2009 | Saw a movie trailer (directed by Martin Scorsese and staring Leonardo DiCaprio) and thought the book would be worth a read before the film comes out. Happy to say it was. The stories characters are well built and the book reads extremely fast. Very full of twists and turns. Actors picked to play the parts for the upcomming film are SPOT on (read a few chapters, than check out the IMDB page). ( ) choochtriplem | Nov 20, 2009 | Pretty good read. Although I pretty much figured out the plot halfway through, it still had a nice ending and a few twists. The author did a great job! (  ) carmarie | Nov 11, 2009 | 
The book is really good....however there's a couple of readers who won't get the final scene....It took me awhile to get the final scene but then i got it....Teddy relapsed and when it is said in the final scene that Teddy saw 4 orderlies walk towards him behind Dr. Cawley and the warden with an object in one of the orderlies hands is a straight jacket to take him and get him lobotomized. Or Teddy could have also faked it because he can't bare the thought of Dolores killing their children therefore pretending he has relapsed and being taken in for the operation so he can erase that part of his life(his wife murdering his children). In the end Dennis Lehane leaves it up to the reader to interpret the ending. Very very good book.
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Summer, 1954.
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them.
But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry; an approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing...Or is there another, more personal reason why he has come there?
As the investigation deepens, the questions only mount. The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island.
Because someone is trying to drive them insane ...
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