Advantages: Dr.Kay Scarpetta appears in it a couple of times Disadvantages: Hard to follow and thoroughly boring
Having been a long-time fan of PatriciaCornwell?s crime/suspense novels, I was happily surprised when I received her latest book, ?Isle of Dogs,? from my mom at Christmas. I hadn?t read anything by Cornwell in a while, so I was quite eager to get down to business and sink my teeth into my new prized possession. Thinking it was another book involving Virginia Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, I was most disappointed to find that only vague references were made to Dr. Scarpetta. In fact, she only appears once or twice in the entire novel.
After reading the jacket cover (which I didn?t do when initially starting the book), I learned that this novel was an entirely different venue for Cornwell. It is her attempt at writing ?black humor.? Unfortunately, she fails miserably. There is little that is either remotely funny ...
Advantages: none Disadvantages: Patricia Cornwell has lost her marbles
PatriciaCornwell is best known for her crime fiction featuring Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. These medical thrillers, for want of a better term, turned her into one of the world?s top selling fiction writers and guaranteed a place for her on the top of the best sellers list which each new novel. However, for reasons best known to herself, Cornwell has opted to turn her back on the Scarpetta novels and follow a different set of stories instead...far, far weaker ones.
Isle of Dogs marks the third of the newer novels and frankly its by far the worst book I have read in many a year. I have no clue what Cornwell thinks she is doing by releasing these novels, but she certainly isn?t doing herself many favours. it is almost as if she is playing a game with her readership, to see just how bad she can make a novel and STILL hit ...
Advantages: A humorously different side of Cornwell Disadvantages: no sequel
I was pleasantly surprised when I read this book. This was the only novel of PatriciaCornwell that had enough humour in it to make me laugh out loud. There still was intrigue -about ten plots twisting and turning into one long saga. There still was a decadent mystery to be figured out. Ofcourse there were still gory murders to be sorted and explored by a doctor well versed in the arts of forensic science.
What was different was the type of characters from Funny boy, Dr Faux and Andy Brazil write up to the Pirates, the dark visionary and the gaseous Governor Crimm. I was in stitches reading this book. As a writer myself I appreciated Cornwell's ability to switch gears and write a mystery novel that was full of humour and life in all it's splendour. Thankfully the stitches were in my side not sewing together a wound ...
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Product details
Type
Audio CD
Title
Isle of Dogs [3 CDs: Abridged]
Author
Patricia Cornwell
Genre
Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
Publisher
HarperCollins Audio
Edition
Abridged
ISBN
0007145322
EAN
9780007145324
Manufacturer's product description
This is the sweeping new novel from the author of "Purple Hibiscus", which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize. "Half a Yellow Sun" is set in Nigeria in the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died, and thousands were massacred in cold blood. The three main characters in the novel get swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the other is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's sister, a remote and enigmatic character. As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic and tribal allegiances, about class and race; and the ways in which love can complicate all of these things.
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