Step on a Crack
by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Salesrank: 3488
Released: 2007-02-06List Price: $27.99
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Crack the book (2008-04-02)
When you read a book that could be written without so many pages is a bad book. This book is long-winded and sometimes boring. Maybe the MAIN story is good but you’ll need to find it and that will be a strenuous endeavor.
Loved it! (2008-01-30)
I did not read the book, but instead listened to the audio book version.
I must say I loved it. The plot may be a little weak, but I fell hard for Mike Bennetts character. I hope there will be more books in the works with him as the lead. He is my kind of hero.
Write on,
Petra Lozano
Author2UBooks.ning.comPatterson Should Be Ashamed (2008-01-08)
Patterson should not have stooped so low to put his name on such a poor infantile book. It is a formula book that reads like a comic book. Total trash!Not His Best ; However, Far From His Worst ! (2008-01-05)
I have such a difficult time with Mr. Patterson, I continue to read his novels eventhough at times they are just not the quality that I know he is capable of writing. “Step On A Crack” sat on my shelf for several months before I picked it up. I read it in one sitting and I enjoyed it. True, the plot was intriguing (the funeral of a former first lady, whereas the celebrities in attendance are held hostage in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral). The characterization is thin, you never get to really know anyone too well. The relationship between our main character, Mike Bennett, and his wife who is terminally ill, almost becomes artificial as after she succumbs to her cancer her husband is back at work almost the next day (now, really). Additionally, they are parents to ten children who somehow find Christmas presents under the tree on Christmas morning eventhough Mom has been hospitalized and Dad has been on the case at St. Patty’s almost 24/7. Anyway, my frustration continues, I’ll continue to read Patterson’s efforts as they are always a fast read and for the most part are page turners. His conclusions of late continue to dissapoint me. The reality is one of the reasons I read his stuff in the first place is because it is total escapism reading for me. Mr. Patterson is not my author of choice for good literature…but lets face it, he is doing something right because so many of us have a difficult time not grabbing a copy of his novels as soon as they hit the book stands. So James, I have some of your other recent novels on my shelf and I will read them as well, however I look forward to the day when your next novel will be the read that will be reminiscent of your earlier work.after a decent start, this book just goes bad (2007-12-30)
Every once and a while it seems that Patterson, or perhaps its one of his co-writers, pulls out a pretty good idea and runs with it. This is a concept genre, and as a concept, it is sort of interesting. The presidents wife is assassinated while eating dinner. It looks like murder. Only when she has her funeral at St. Pat’s in NY, her memorial is over run by what might be terrorists. All of the celebrities and political power-houses are then held as hostage while the world looks on.
I have to admit, this book had me for a while. As it unfolded, I was pretty interested to see exactly where it was going. However, once Patterson has laid out the entire concept, it feels to me like he did not know exactly where to go with it. In the end, the story becomes stupid and the writing becomes less cared for.
I would suggest that you stay away from this book. Not good at all
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