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Loading... Sail (edition 2009)by James Patterson, Howard Roughan
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. As usual, a good quick read. Things I didn't expect and things I did. Nothing like Patterson to whisk you away for a day into someone else's problems. ( ) Overall this was an entertaining, easy read. The location/character jumps between chapters, which sometimes makes for "choppy" reading, were smooth and had a natural feel to them. The one exception to this was from the island to the courtroom. The large constrictor on what I took to be a small island seemed a little unlikely as well. I'm not an herpetologist, I thought that the only agressive (towards humans) constrictor was the anaconda. But there is a happy ending though; The scum-sucking lawyer dies. Good action but predictable murder mystery with the good guys and bad guys well defined almost from the start. Some very well described images that pull you into the story with their complex details and their human-related emotional attachments. Several imaginative highly detailed subplots and associated characters kept the action flowing in an otherwise rather lengthy tale of family distress.
The Dunne family – Manhattan heart surgeon Katherine (whose husband Stuart died in a mysterious diving accident in the presence of his mistress), her 18-year-old troubled, bulimic daughter Carrie, her 16-year-old ne’er-do-well stoner son Mark, her spunky, punchline-spouting 10-year-old son Ernie, and strapping Jake, Katherine’s former brother-in-law – go on a sailing trip in a last-ditch effort to knit their relationships back together. And it’s hardly an exaggeration to say you can guess the rest. 388 pages, 123 chapters, but that’s no lie: you can guess pretty much every single thing that happens for the rest of the book. AwardsDistinctions
The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone together, once and for all. Just when things start to take a turn for the better, disaster strikes. Stuart is left to pick up the pieces and find his family--but he is eager to start a brand new life. Maybe he's a little too eager.--From publisher description. No library descriptions found. |
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