Terry R. Mabry

5 Stars for a Great Story

Revisado: 05-08-15

I loved this book. I have it on Kindle too, but I love Dick Hill as a reader. I really like the Alan Gregory novels and grab them up as soon as they are published.

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The Man From Beijing is a keeper

Revisado: 02-25-10

I have listened to all of Henning Mankell's novels and enjoyed every one of them. Kurt Wallander is one of my favorite sleuths. With this novel from 2006, however, he has outdone himself. Departing from his normal formula, The Man From Beijing takes us back to the 1860's in Nevada and to today's (2006) China. What a wonderful listen this book was. The characters, as always, are fully developed and seem real to me. The journey Mankell takes us on is interesting and informative and very suspenseful. I loved it.

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The Lost Symbol is not a good read.

Revisado: 09-30-09

Since when does the CIA investigate crimes in the U.S.? I thought that was the perview of the FBI. In fact, I'm sure it is. What a joke! Some little asian woman from the CIA bullies everyone she comes in contact with, she tramples on everyone's constitutional rights, all in the name of some unspecified crisis. Yuck! This book is long, dry and way too pedantic for my tastes. I liked the Davinci Code and Angels and Demons, but this effort was nowhere near the high level of writing as those two novels. Dan should have spent more time polishing this book before it went to print. Langdon was a minor character in this book, and the fictional CIA director was the main character along with Catherine and the villain. I lived in Maryland right outside DC and I was interested in the info about the buildings and the symbols of the capitol, but the long lectures about them were boring to say the least. Most people will buy this book because it is a "Dan Brown novel" but knowing what I know now, I would have skipped it.

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Terrible book. The reader is the worst.

Revisado: 07-15-08

Boring, boring, boring. I suppose if you are a female, this book is for you. I'm not and the book isn't. The narrator is terrible. When she is reading a man's dialogue (any man in the book) she sounds like Katherine Hepburn. Her range is non-existent, everyone sounds alike. I only got through a few hours of this book before I quit. Also, every key person was a woman; the heroine, the ME, the forensic anthropologist, the sister, the old lady, the sisters in 1830. What few men there were seemed to be an afterthought. Maybe I didn't get far enough into the book, but I just couldn't stand any more of this narrator, Susan Denaker. Men, don't waste your time and money.

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Not Her Best Effort

Revisado: 10-11-07

I've read a few of F. Kellerman's police procedurals and found them entertaining, interesting, and worth the effort. This one, however, seems like it was dashed off in a week or so. Not much happening here. Action? Forget about it. Plodding is the adjective I would apply here. I like Pete Decker and his crew, his family; Rina and the kids. In this book Pete spends about an hour at home, so no plot lines for Rina, really. I'm amazed how police detectives can be brushed off by the civilians in this book. Wouldn't you think, they'd be more forthcoming with the info the cops are asking them for? All in all, Burnt House was a disappointment. I probably won't read another of her works for a while.

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