The Day After Tomorrow

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One of the most preposterous utterly ridiculous books ever written........2007-10-05

I am ashamed, deeply ashamed that I waded half way through this awful tripe. Do yourself a HUGE favor and do NOT read this book. That Folsom could get this drivel published is a testimony to his business acumen if not his skill as a writer. One third of the way through I guessed the ending as utterly implausible as it was. I would have guessed it sooner, however I simply refused to believe so absurd a story could ever be conceived much less published.

There are some for whom this book would be ideally suited however. If you subscribe to the theory that 9-11 was an inside job or that Algore has unique fact-based reliable insights into man-made global warming or if your level of political analysis is confined to the mantra, "Bush lied, people died," or if you are nearly illiterate, or if you are just plain stoopid - well then, by golly, you've come to the right place! This book is for you!

Otherwise, do yourself a favor: do not buy this book.

Possibly the Greatest Thriller Ever.......2007-09-23

This thriller ranks among the best ever, including works by Ludlum, Follet, Forsythe, and Baldacci. Folsom never lets up on the pacing, and the action and twists are non-stop. As the hero races around the world, hints as to the conspiracy at hand are revealed, leading to a final revelation that is one of the most imaginitive AND horrifying scenarios ever put down on paper.

If you are any kind of thriller fan this is a book you MUST READ.

exciting but in the end stupid.......2007-08-11

It's without any doubt a very well written book. I really enjoyed reading it for 2/3 of its pages. The troubles started with the presentation of modern Germany as a country still full of Nazi aiming to dominate the world. I am not a German, but this presentation is really stupid and unbound to reality. The US has much more tendency to behave in the way described as the Germany of nowadays (see Guantanamo, see George W. Bush, Abu Ghuraib etc.).

If you go to modern Germany you will be impressed by an extreme political correctness. The US chief justice of the supreme court William Rehnquist refused to loan his houses to jews and blacks. This would be impossible in todays' Germany. George W. Bush would be a member of the extreme right in Germany (excluded from the elections). Most US parlamentariens would be on the very right wing of todays German's politics, many of them ultraright and even extremists. You will not find German politicians advocating political murders of leaders of other countries e.g.

It's really sad that the author of this well written book loves to reinforce old prejudices. Germany really learnt from history, much more than the US.

Target missed: Cussler not Clancy.......2007-06-23

Synopsis: Paul Osborn's father was murdered when Osborn was ten years old. Osborn has no trouble recognizing the killer when he sees him unexpectedly in a Parisian cafe 28 years later. Osborn attacks his father's murderer who flees and the reader is plunged into a morass of headless bodies, body-less heads, all powerful neo-Nazis, European police agencies who have to rely on Los Angeles police officers to solve European crimes, beautiful French women who are sleeping with prime ministers who leave their lovers because they meet an American doctor, (All right, there's only one of those, but even one is too many.), and dead police officers galore.

Osborn's attack catches the attention of the Paris police who ask for the assistance of McVey, the super-sleuth from Los Angeles who is helping Interpol with the embarrassing bodies that have turned up all over Europe. They have called in McVey, not because of the bodies, but because they found a head and it doesn't seem to go with any of the bodies.

McVey is suspicious of Osborn because the head seems to have been surgically removed from its body. Then Osborn convinces McVey he's not involved. Then McVey is suspicious again. Then he's not. Then he is. Then he's not again.

In the meantime, Osborn has hired a private detective to find the man who murdered his father. The police have been seeking him for 28 years, so it takes the private detective almost 12 hours to track him down. He gives Osborn all the information about the killer. Then the killer tortures and kills the private detective. The reader deduces this by the fact that the detective's mutilated corpse is found in his apartment, the story is on the front page of a Parisian newspaper and McVey is suspicious again.

Osborn, a doctor, though that has little to do with the story, is planning on torturing his father's killer to find out why he (the killer) killed him (his [Osborn's] father). Instead the killer shows up and kidnaps Osborn. Osborn turns the table and is torturing the killer when another killer machine guns them both. The killer is killed. Osborn is shot in the leg, though within a page or two he is competing for the Parisian olympic decathlon team, so the bullet in his leg only slows him down long enough for the bad guys to learn that he's not dead.

At this point the story gets even less credible. The killer with the machine pistol, starts killing everyone in sight. He is invariably described as tall. In fact, the reader learns, he is 6'4" tall. He is also blonde. To disguise himself, he dyes his hair and removes his feet. Turns out the killer has had his feet surgically removed. He has 8" prosthetics for when he is working. He trades them for 2" prosthetics, so he is no longer tall. (Yeah, that's what I thought.)

Stumpy tries to kill Osborn and McVey, who are finally working together to figure out what in the world is going on, the same thing the reader is wondering. Osborn and McVey kill Stumpy and learn his secret, which tells them nothing.

Meanwhile, in Switzerland, a charming devotee of Hitler's Third Reich is seducing a not-particularly-attractive physical therapist who is working with a man we later find out has the first successful head transplant. Yep. All this is leading up to these clowns transplanting Hitler's frozen noggin on to the body of one of a set of twin boys who are perfect physical specimens: they swim the butterfly stroke for four miles, matching each other stroke for stroke, then to relax they go for a run in the Alps. (Oops, I shouldn't have told you that yet. The author keeps the reader in suspense until the last paragraph in the book. It's the worst kept secret since the Carl Rove denied outing Valerie Plame.)

It seems that under Berlin there are extensive hospital facilities. Deep under Berlin. Really deep. And extensive. Really extensive. In the last days (years) of the war, Hitler had this complex built. This might explain why he lost the war. If this effort had been expended in fighting the allies, Hitler would have won the war, conquered the world, taken manned vehicles to the moon, and met the aliens in Carl Sagan's "Contact" in person rather than just sending them a broadcast of the 1936 Olympics.

Anyway, Osborn and McVey, with the help of one each British, French and German police officer are hot on the trail of the killer of the killer of Osborn's father. Well, the actual killer of the killer of Osborn's father is Stumpy, who is dead. They are instead tracking down the mysterious man who ordered the killing of the killer of Osborn's father. Got it?

The man behind all this killing, and the bodies strewn about Europe and the head found in London, is wealthier than Bill Gates and cleaner than some guy in politics who's really clean, I can't think of anyone just now. He is, the reader is told, untouchable. He's so clean your mother wouldn't ask him to wash his hands before serving him her famous pork and kraut New Year's dinner. He's really clean.

McVey, the ever resourceful, calls upon the Archbishop of Los Angeles to ask the clean multi-billionaire to meet McVey, which he agrees to do. While they are waiting to meet the bad guy, the bad guy kills a whole bunch of people in an attempt to kill Osborn and McVey, hoping that no one will connect him with their deaths. (How someone that stupid got so wealthy and powerful is never explained.)

On the eve of the unveiling of the first successful head transplant, in the largest, most impressive castle in Berlin, Osborn and McVey meet the untouchably clean bad guy and his lawyer because they have an international warrant for his arrest for the murder of Osborn's father (Remember Osborn's father? That's what this whole story is about? I don't want to have to remind you again.) 28 years ago.

In a surprise turn of events, the doctor who is behind the "transplant de head." as no Frenchman would ever call it, is not sympathetic to the Nazi cause. He has just been going along with the killings for the past 50 years because he was afraid for his life. Now that things are coming to a head, he kills the untouchably clean bad guy and his lawyer. In another part of the castle, all the Nazis and neo-Nazis involved in the plot are in the castle keep being addressed by the newly recovered transplanted head on its new body in anticipation of one of the twin boys' heads being removed and Hitler's head being "atomically" transplanted in its place. The doctor who was not sympathetic to the Nazi cause but who has cooperated for 50 years has a surprise for them as well. Steel doors slam into place at every door and window and cyanide gas, similar to the gas used in concentration camps, is pumped into the room and everyone is dead.

The reader can be excused for thinking this is the end of the story. It's not.

Fortunately for the forces of evil, the main bad guy's head of security is delayed in his delivery of a box which, we are told in idiotic detail, is precisely two feet wide, two feet deep and 26 inches high. The bad guy's head of security is carrying this 8-cubic-foot box about in a back pack. He has kidnapped the medical student who used to be sleeping with the Prime Minister of France who has fallen in love with Osborn. They are going deep into the Swiss Alps where he intends to kill her and Osborn who, of course, has been lured to attempt her rescue. (The police have been thrown off their trail. Everyone knows doctors are better at this sort of thing than police.)

Osborn and the untouchably clean bad guy's head of security duel on a glacier in the Alps. Osborn, the doctor, out maneuver's this trained, experienced, fanatical Nazi, though not before Osborn slips over the edge of the glacier and skins his knee pretty badly.

Osborn finally tricks the Nazi fanatic into falling off the glacier. As he falls, his backpack opens and the super secure box he has been guarding with his life opens somehow and the reader finally learns, to no surprise whatsoever, that Hitler's head was in the box. The killer's body is never found at the bottom of the glacier. Neither is Hitler's head. The reader is left in despair that this might mean there will be a sequel.

What I thought: This wasn't a bad book, but it took itself too seriously. The author wanted too badly to be Tom Clancy. He should have been shooting for Clive Cussler.

The techno part of the story is idiotic. The bad guys have mastered "atomic" surgery.? They can operate at near absolute zero? They explain in the book that molecules don't move when the temperature gets so low. This allows them to operate on a dead body and a dead head and bring them back to life. What they don't explain is how, if molecules don't move, their sewing machine works.

The book parodies itself. The bad guys are evil incarnate. They were infinitely powerful. They can reach into any corner of Europe or the United States. They lay waste to police officers right and left. They killed people even when it no longer made any sense to kill them.

The good guys are Forest Gump-like in their earnestness and their fumbling ability to stumble into certain death only to foil the Master Race by accident rather than by design. Their plans are not a step behind the bad guys, they are pages, chapters behind the bad guys. It was like the bad guys had read the book and already knew everything the good guys were going to do, but the good guys, because their hearts were pure, muddled through to success.

The good guys don't actually solve the crime. The doctor who felt bad about killing most of Europe while trying to learn how to sew Hitler's head onto another person's corpse gives a video tape to the physical therapist and tells her not to look at it. In this unbelievable book, wonder of wonder, the physical therapist doesn't look at it. She passes the tape to the FBI which passes it to McVey of the LAPD who let's Osborn look at it. Only then does anyone know what the book was about and it's so ludicrous that Dr. Osborn knows no one would ever believe it.

This would have made a great Get Smart episode.

Before Dan Brown ..........2007-05-24

There was Allan Folsom. I first read this book 13 years ago when it first came out and still remember it as a fast-paced novel. I picked it up recently after recommending it to a friend to see if I still enjoyed it. I enjoyed it but not like I did 13 years ago. Either my reading taste has matured, or he's just not that good of an author. However, it is a fast-paced novel and fun to read. It's definitely perfect for the summer hiatus when all one can think of is sitting outside by the kiddie pool and read.

Paul Osborn, an American surgeon was just sitting in a cafe thinking about his current state of affairs when he looks up and sees the man who killed his father 30 years previously. When he goes after him, he sets off an international goose chase all across Europe that sends spine-curdling thrills coursing through your body. He meets up with Detective McVey, who is from LA also, but is in London on a bizarre case involving headless bodies and one head with a missing body. Somehow Paul and McVey link up together and set off to figure out the baffling case that needed to be solved before the world is thrown into terror it has never seen before.

It's fast. It's intense. It still delivers a punch after 13 years of sitting in my bookcase. If you like suspense and dark thrillers, you'll like this one. I didn't find it lagging one minute anywhere ~~ in fact, I couldn't wait to finish it again.

5-24-03

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I like it chilly
The Day After Tomorrow
A book of FICTION, remember that!
Simply dreadful drivel
Choppy, jumpy, confusing. It's was awful.

The Day After Tomorrow
Whitley Strieber
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ASIN: 0743489063

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THE BEGINNING OF THE END

It's a fiercely hot summer, so hot that the north pole's heat record is broken by fifty degrees. Massive ice melt stuns the world as open ocean appears at the pole for the first time in living memory. Deep under the Atlantic Ocean, currents crucial to life react, dropping south -- and suddenly, storms of unprecedented ferocity start exploding over the arctic as cold air returns, slamming into the heat with cataclysmic results. The storms grow until they form a bizarre and gigantic blizzard unlike anything ever seen before. A stunned humanity realizes that a second ice age is about to engulf the earth.

Climatologist Jack Hall tried to warn people of the approaching peril -- but it may already be too late for any hope of survival. Now he must not only find a way to reverse the rampant ecological destruction that is transforming the world into a frigid wasteland, but also rescue his rebellious son, who is one of the millions trapped in the icy depths of a frozen New York City.

Now a Major Motion Picture from Twentieth Century Fox

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I like it chilly.......2006-10-28

I've been a fan of Striebers work since I read The Wolfen back in 88. I knew the man had some talent after reading the book. Unlike a lot of other horror authors at the time, he went with a scientific angle rather than a supernatural one. The Day after Tomorrow is really no different. The movie is based off of one of his earlier books so it only makes sense that he'd write the movie book as well.

The movie and the book are dumbed down for the typical american. But if they had gone the highbrow route, most of the audience would have been confused and then we'd all feel bad for the slow people in the audience and at the bookstore. However, this book is good for those who love the movie and want more. They should start off with The Coming Global Superstorm by Strieber and Bell first, then get this one. Do these books have a leftist agenda? No, they do cater to those who worry about the environment though. You know, those people with a brain who can actually comprehend global warming, this does however does exclude the republican party. But hey, they tried to dumb down the movie so that even republicans could understand it, I don't think it worked though.

The Day After Tomorrow.......2006-01-03

The novel The Day After Tomorrow by Whitley Strieber is an adventure. It starts off with a scientist, Jack Hall, in Antarctica studying some ice samples. Soon Jack's trip turned into a dangerous situation. The ice plates of Antarctica suddenly cracked and shifted. This was just the start of some major problems. Back home Jack's son, Sam, was getting ready to go to New York for a decathlon. Jack brought Sam to the airport; there was a lot of air turbulence which made for a very bumpy ride. The weather was taking a turn for the worst. In Japan there was huge hail falling down killing a lot of people. In L.A. there were large, highly dangerous tornadoes, destroying everything in their paths. Meanwhile in New York it started to downpour. Then a huge wall of water flooded into the city, completely flooding New York. Luckily Sam and his friends took shelter in a nearby library. Sam contacted his father and was told to stay put. Sam then warned the people to not go out or they would die, but only few stayed back. Everyone that went outside froze to death. The Earth was now into a new Ice Age caused by Global Warming. The rest of the country was told to head as far south as possible. Then Jack went to find Sam. All of the people that stayed in the library were alive. They were soon found once the storm was over, and brought to Mexico. More and more people were found alive. It was a miracle.
I thought the novel The Day After Tomorrow was great. It kept me very interested. It really made me think, could an Ice Age caused by Global Warming happen to us, and are we doing all we can to protect the world we live in? The Day After Tomorrow was truly exciting and entertaining. I would recommend this novel to all ages that enjoy adventures, excitement, and suspense.

A book of FICTION, remember that!.......2005-03-27

If we want to take Global Warming seriously then reading a book like this is tantamount to reading a book on plumbing and its many uses in the drainage system of life.

Come on guys, this is a FICTION book, i.e. it's not laying claim to be the truth as we know it, if you want to read a book like that, then LOOK somewhere else!

I read this book, and I read it for what it was, a book of fiction, with fictitious characters going through a fictitious scenario.

It wasn't the most brilliant read I have ever come across but let me tell you it certainly is not the worst!

The book did give more insight to some of the lesser characters in the movie, and I actually appreciated that, and it pretty much followed the movie in every other way too which was fine by me.

As for the reality of Global Warming, it scares the pants off of me, and should do the same for everyone else, however in the case of the book, "The Day After Tomorrow," we should look at it with the eyes of wisdom and know that this is not how it will be if the big freeze happens, there will fewer survivors that is for sure, at least for those of us on the surface, those who have access to nice bunkers deep in the warm earth, well, they will be okay, but the world they know and remembered will go the way of the Dinosaurs and they will have to start all over again.

I only hope that whatever is left of humanity if they get that tiny second chance, they don't make the same mistakes as we are making right now.

I don't know about you guys but all I ask for is to be with my family when the "big freeze" comes around, (if it comes around in my lifetime, you never know!) at least we will all go together and you can't ask more than that can you?

Simply dreadful drivel.......2004-10-29

Whitney Streiber, one of the chief instruments in dumbing down America, has outdone himself here. Streiber has no knowledge of physics or other sciences, but cares not a whit. In this extremely poorly written (lack of) effort, Streiber purports to describe a climatic calamity on the order of the recently lamented movie. It is amateurishly written, marked by no real single plot, and absolutely worthless as either literature or science. But people will probably buy it and buy into it, while books by real scientists, such as Richard B Alley, gather dust on bookstore shelves. Barnum was right. I weep for the future.

I wouldn't even rate this book in terms of stars unless negative values could be used. Don't bother.

Choppy, jumpy, confusing. It's was awful........2004-10-16

I don't care about the scientific correctness or political undertones. And I'm not writing a review about the movie, this is about the book. I just like post-apocalyptic stories, plain and simple. This book just sucked, there's no other way to put it. The writing was terrible. It was choppy, jumping around from scene to scene without rhyme or reason so much, it made me dizzy. I made it to page 26 and gave up. Tonight I watched the movie for the first time and understand what was wrong with the book. The author tried very unsuccessfully to buildup characters out of people that had been onscreen for less than a minute. He'd have been better off sticking with the main characters and putting a little effort into it.

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Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow
Stanley Cavell
Manufacturer: Belknap Press
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Nietzsche characterized the philosopher as the man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow--a description befitting Stanley Cavell, with his longtime interest in freedom in the face of an uncertain future. This interest, particularly in the role of language in freedom of the will, is fully engaged in this volume, a collection of retrospective and forward-thinking essays on performative language and on performances in which the question of freedom is the underlying concern.

Seeking for philosophy the same spirit and assurance conveyed by an artist like Fred Astaire, Cavell presents essays that explore the meaning of grace and gesture in film and on stage, in language and in life. Cavell's range is broad--from Astaire to Shakespeare's soulful Cordelia. He also analyzes filmic gestures that bespeak racial stereotypes, opening a key topic that runs through the book: What is the nature of praise? The theme of aesthetic judgment, viewed in the light of "passionate utterance," is everywhere evident in Cavell's effort to provoke a renaissance in American thought. Critical to such a rebirth is a recognition of the centrality of the "ordinary" to American life. Here Cavell, who has alluded to Thoreau throughout, takes up the quintessential American philosopher directly, and in relation to Heidegger; he also returns to his great philosophical love, Wittgenstein. His collection of essays ends, appropriately enough, with an essay on collecting.

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The Day After Tomorrow
Allan Folsom
Manufacturer: Little
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Day After Tomorrow
Reynolds
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The Day After Tomorrow

Manufacturer: Signet
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Original Title: Sixth Column Science Fiction

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The Day After Tomorrow
Allan Folson
Manufacturer: Little
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The Day after tomorrow
great book
Also known as "Sixth Column"
Standard early Heinlein fare
It's the Bomb!

The Day After Tomorrow
Robert A. Heinlein
Manufacturer: Roc
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The Day after tomorrow.......2004-11-17

A great book. all of the things a sci fi book should be.

great book.......2004-06-04

This is a must read for lovers of classic sifi

Also known as "Sixth Column".......2004-01-07

This novel is now in print with it's original title of "Sixth Column", but I don't think the text has changed. What I remember from my readings over the years is that RAH cleaned up the story, and reduced much of the racism present in the original concept developed by Campbell.

Overall, an excellent novel with good characterizations, and a (then) plausible presentation of an implausible invention to save the nation's bacon.

Standard early Heinlein fare.......2000-12-10

This story of life and rebellion in post-nuclear America is driven by an entertaining and fast-moving plot. It contains many of Heinlein's favorite themes: religion, mass psychology, indefatigable American optimism and ingenuity in the face of adversity and oppression. Not to mention the usual undertones of sexism and racism. Recommended for Heinlein fans who can't get enough from this flawed, but undeniably masterful, storyteller.

It's the Bomb!.......2000-08-01

Heinlein whisks up some very disturbing post-apocalyptic dessert in this book depicting the rapid unravelling of society immediately following The Nuclear War ("glory be to the bomb"). The Baby Boomers who spent their development beneath the protective umbrella of the Big Boomers know the dread of impending Doomsday. Heinlein finely exploits the overt and innate fears the bomb instills in all who have the understanding of its true god-like power. All this in the context of a fast-paced adventure. Excellent read.

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The Day After Tomorrow
Allan Folsom
Manufacturer: Warner Books Inc
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6 Titles By Reynolds - Earth Unaware - Ability Quotient - Satellite City - Galactic Medal of Honor - Day After Tomorrow - After Utopia

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6 Titles By Reynolds - Earth Unaware - Ability Quotient - Satellite City - Galactic Medal of Honor - Day After Tomorrow - After Utopia
Mack Reynolds
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A recipe for success: Claudia Bishop and her Hemlock Falls Inn mystery series.

While town residents are preparing to celebrate the 133rd anniversary of the Battle of Hemlock Falls, the Quilliam sisters are investigating the deaths of three people who all had their last meals at the Inn.

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Puree of Bleh.......2005-08-20

It is rare that I find a book which I cannot finish.
Well this one takes the cake!!

Fifty pages and three weeks into it I realized it was just not going to happen. I was thinking up of any excuse, including housework and going to sleep early or staring through the window on the bus way home, anything but reading this horrid book.

I think it had too many characters, they sounded forced and fabricated, it was dragging on, and when I flipped through it to read random paragraphs it all read so lukewarm. I felt like I was eating stale bread, and I like juicy good books, so this one went back on the shelf.

Too bad, I liked the concept, and the recipe on the back was better than the book itself.

Major disappointment there, don't know if I would tackle Bishop's other books.

Civil War reenactors and mysterious deaths.......2005-01-12

Everyone is getting ready for the 133rd anniversary of the Battle of Hemlock Falls. Quill is getting the Inn ready, but her sister, Meg, is more concerned about her fiancé, Dr. Andy Bishop.

Recently three people died at the hospital. He was their physician. All three were sick, but what brought them to the hospital should not have killed them. Meg is quite concerned about Andy and how he is taking all of this. Then it is discovered that all three dined at the Inn before going to the hospital.

Quill interviews the families of the three dead people to try to determine what each person ate, who they interacted with, and what they did while they were at the Inn. She is trying to keep the fact that they dined at the Inn before dying away from her sister Meg. She knows she would not take this news well.

There is also controversy about who really won the Battle of Hemlock Falls. This puts the town in turmoil. The Chamber of Commerce, of which Quill is the secretary, tries to iron things out with the reenactors.

The many characters that live in Hemlock Falls are so well constructed. I feel as if I know each one. I enjoy the books in this series and always look forward to reading the next book.

Quill always finds a way to get herself in the middle of the murder investigations. She often finds herself in danger, and many times brings her sister or a friend along with her.

Hemlock Falls is the type of town you'd like to vacation in and the Inn at Hemlock Falls is a place you'd want to stay, except for all the murders! Even so, I'd vacation there in a heartbeat if I could.

I highly recommend this book.

PLEASE - pass the puree!!!.......2004-03-20

My Mystery Book group read A Puree of Poison for our January selection and everyone hated it! In a word, it was just silly! We thought that Meg had a case of arrested development with all the tantrums she threw.The other quirky characters seemed more annoying than engaging. We all agreed that Dina, the receptionist, had a big mouth and major attitude problem which no employer in his right mind would have tolerated. I kept hoping for The Donald to pop up and say "You're fired!!!"

I had read the first three books in the series and had really enjoyed them, but Puree was a big disappointment.Also, I think that Claudia Bishop may have lifted the Civil War idea from the TV show "Ed." This season "Ed" had a similar episode about the reenactment of a Civil War battle which Stuckeyville had supposedly won but actually had lost. Coincidence? Who knows? Just save your time and money and pass on this puree.

One of the Better Ones of this Series.......2004-02-27

I was impressed with this entry in the long-running Hemlock Falls series. There were some interesting subplots: Meg, the chef sister, sometimes comes off as a caricature but not in this book; Miles may be disappearing for about a year on a secret mission...
I was also surprised to see some quite current relevant mentions in this book; e.g., Enron, Iraq.
A group of Civil War reenactors swarm into the inn at Hemlock Falls ready to reenact the 133rd anniversary of the Battle of Hemlock. Meanwhile, three of Meg's boyfriend's (Andy, a doctor) patients have died mysteriously and he asks Quill to help find out what happened. The two plots are interwoven quite nicely and also wrapped up quite satisfactorily.
I hope to see more of this series as I find it one of the more enjoyable ones out there (with the exception of just one or two earlier episodes).

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