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Cloudland (2012)

by Joseph Olshan(Favorite Author)

3.1 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Minotaur Books

review 1: I liked this book for a number of reasons: It is a mystery that let me think I had the answers to who and why--but, then again, maybe not; it sparked my interest to read more by Wilkie Collins (I love it when one author turns me on to other writers!); the characters are engaging and well-written, especially Henrietta the pot-bellied pet pig; and the prose is much more literary than the run-of-the-mill crime novel--although, as is often my complaint when reading contemporary fiction, I don't see the need for the vulgar language.
review 2: I got within about 80 pages of the end of this and decided that I was not going to squander one more minute of my life on this dreadful book. The plot is pretty standard but the characters are so horrible and unsympathetic [es... morepecially Catherine Winslow, the protagonist, who is mean and self-centered to a fault...] that I couldn't force myself to care what happened to them in the end. Luckily it was a fast read. That's about the only good thing I can find to say about it. less

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