Books by Thomas H. Cook
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review 1: Why would I bother to finish a mystery about a self absorbed cynical professor in a southern college who has an epiphany that life is wonderful and should be spent serving others? Whose narcissistic manipulative wife puts him in a terrible bind? So well written I found it as sm...
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review 1: I needed something to read while traveling and only had my phone. This was a free giveaway so I decided to take a chance. it was interesting since it made me actually look up the details that were mentioned to see if the events were real (they were) plus I have studied the disa...
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review 1: This is the first book I have read by Cook and I found it hard to put down, other reviewers have said this book is not as good as previous ones. That says to me that I have more to enjoy as I explore Cook's other works. He writes prose that feels like poetry and in this particula...
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review 1: Yes, this is about the Delta, and some of the people who live there. One, born to privilege, is Jack Branch who decides to teach at the local high school. He concocts a course on Evil, where he lectures about certain historical figures, and then assigns his students to write ab...
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review 1: WWII has long fascinated me because of the immense courage of the people of the era. It affected every walk of life and every nationality. This story breaks down into little pieces the history of nations who all played a part in the destruction that was WWII. Anna is by far my fa...
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review 1: Every time I read a Thomas H. Cook book I'm always struck anew by just how good of a writer he is. He creates these terrific seemingly simple yet upon closer examination infinitely intricate dramas of ordinary lives visited by violent crimes and the way those visitations come to ...
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review 1: Thomas H Cook again comes back with a tale of suspense with an interesting climax, realistic, populated with characters with which you can identify, exposing deepest thoughts lurking in their minds, bring forth in Cook's literary prose. I am again and again is astonished by Cook'...
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review 1: If I hadn't already read the author's "Chatham School Affair", I probably would have enjoyed this more. But the construction of the piece is so similar (even if the actual plot isn't). Both involve old men looking back on an incident that happened in their younger days. Both have...
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review 1: Not the greatest from Mr. Cook but a solid book. Cook always has the best twists and I have yet to find an author as clever as him with the twists. His prose is perfect and makes you want to read more every time. The characters were solid and will be memorable as well as the uniq...