Toys

I actually really liked it even though alot of people didn’t!
Toys…I was confused at first reading this book. I had to re-read the beginning of it at first. (but this was probably because I read the preview a month or so before I read the whole book) I wasn’t clear what the story was about only because I like to be surprised about what is going to happen in the story. Anyway, I really liked the book. It was kind of scifi, kind of new age. This would be a good Youth book as well. It kind of had a Daniel X feel to it. Once again I really liked it. There were a few chapters in the beginning that just happened fast from getting to one scene to another. There were lots of elements of surprise and needless today it was a great read and it kept me very interested. Heather

received
good book

The Lamest Effort Ever — Come On, Jim
Background— OK, I like James Patterson’s style. I didn’t like it early on, but over the years it grew on me. Alex Cross has been fine for a long time, with some occasional great stories (Alex Cross’s Trial.) I never was able to get into the ‘fantasy stuff’ –flying kids and all. The Women’s Murder Club was OK, but got a bit stale. Where Patterson (and his co-authors) really grabbed me (usually) were the non-series fiction efforts, with my all time favorite being The Quickie.So here comes Toys. OMG !!! This is Patterson’s lamest effort ever. As one reviewer correctly put it, the book is annoying — and annoying on many different levels. The characters never make it off the ground. They are underdeveloped to the point where not a single one stirs any emotion. In this book, Humans are derisively called ‘Skunks’ by the Elites. Well, that wasn’t that cute the first time it was used, but ramming it down our throats about 8000 times throughout the book is just plain torture — we got it after the second time, Jim. And, of course, there is the patented Patterson fault of turning a clever phrase, which is admittedly clever the first time, then using it four or more times throughout the book to MAKE SURE we recognize the nice turn of a phrase. I could go on, but you get the drift.I tried to like this book, I really did, After reading it I even spent some time in substituting some oppressive and oppressed groups throughout covolization into the roles of Elites and Skunks (er, Humans,) thinking that maybe there was an intellectual quality to the story that had escaped me. Nope.BUT THEN I GOT IT.The one thing that is foreshadowed throughout the book, and actually seems like it may be worth waiting for, is a manner of killing that is termed The Slow Death. Finally, at the beginning of Chapter 115 (page 354) we learn that “SLOW DEATH EQUALS SLOW TORTURE.” Huh ? Probably could have figured that one out, Jim. And then it hit me. This is a true interactive novel, where the reader has been unknowingly subjected to the same fate throughout the reading of this book as one of the main characters suffers at the end — a slow, mind-numbing process that, at its conclusion, leaves one devoid of intellect or reason. GENIUS !!!Save your money on this one, and hope that co-author Neil McMahon’s Montana home is on highly defensible ground, because the pitchforks and torches may be around the corner.

Interesting.Not yet finished reading.

この小説のオーディオブックCDも出ているので、勉強になればと、本とCD、２つ入手することにしました。海外の Amazon での小説の評価はとても低いですが…まずはシリアスな Matt Bomer の声を楽しみつつ、読んでいます☆