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Sail | 
 enlarge | Authors: James Patterson, Howard Roughan
Creators: Dylan Baker, Jennifer Van Dyck
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 123594
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 1600242049
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781600242045
ASIN: 1600242049
Publication Date: June 9, 2008
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Product Description
The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone together, once and for all. Just when things start to take a turn for the better, disaster strikes. Stuart is left to pick up the pieces and find his family--but he is eager to start a brand new life. Maybe he's a little too eager.
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 just "okay" July 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Patterson's latest effort makes for a just "ok" read.......characters seem too shallow; storyline is too unbelievable. Patterson should stick with "Alex Cross".
 Too unbelievable July 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wanted to like this book and was looking forward to reading it. However almost everything in it that happened was so unbelievable I thought that I was reading a comedy. From New England to the Bahamas in a sailboat in a day...really? A giant snake....really. A kind of fun read but I couldn't make myself believe it was a serious James Patterson book.
 Audio version not a great listen July 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sail is a good book for light reading. A small insignificant twist at the end. The who-done-it is told in the beginning.
The audio read is strange. There are two readers, a man and a woman. Perfect!!! right? Not exactly. Who is reading the book depends on what character is recounting the story. If a man is recounting his perspective of the trial, then the burly old defense lawyer has a deep raspy voice; but if a woman is recounting her perspective of the trial, then the same old lawyer has a deepened female voice.......like a soprano trying to talk at a lower octave. This switch in the lawyers voice from deep and raspy to deepened female happens minutes apart. (this being one character example as there are others that are male characters whose dialogue is read by the woman) This type of read is strange to me and somewhat distracting and doesn't really allow you to get into the characters........other than those who are recounting the story because their readers remain gender specific.
Otherwise the book was a fun listen with a light sinister plot.
Just a bit overblown July 21, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I did enjoy this book a little but not, I suspect, for the reasons intended by the authors and publisher. In fact, I laughed aloud at several of the wrong places. Let me explain. A woman heart surgeon sets out on a sailboat with her three children and her deceased husband's brother. Her fancy dancy crimanal defense attorney husband is left in New York. Things start to go wrong right away on this junket.
The teenage boy lights up a joint in the head. The daughter tries to commit suicide. A huge storm almost swamps them. Then there's an explosion, putting them all in the drink, whereupon a shark smells lunch, before they make it to a deserted island and a giant snake attacks. I could see it all coming, like dominoes falling. I could see the writers listing all the hazards that could possibly affect this curious crew. It became downright funny.
Then toss in the fact that someone is trying to kill them--the doctor's second husband, the hotshot villainous lawyer, assisted by an ex-CIA operative. The lawyer is a piece of work, strictly one-dimensional nasty and completely unbelievable. Even his bosomy girlfriend is silly, thrown in just to have a sex scene. In fact, there isn't a character in this book that feels right, to say nothing of the events that are phony.
And I haven't touched upon the errors of fact and logic, but to take those on would be to give away the plot for those who enjoy this sort of thing. One example: the sailboat, which apparently has an inboard engine, sets out from New England and a couple of days later is in sub-tropical waters, in the vicinity of the Bahamas. Some sailboat.
Then there is the writing itself. The authors obviously don't trust their own words very much or their own readers. They use lots of exclamation points, the certain spoor of the bad writer. Then they compound this with italicized sentences and bold sentences on every page. Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway they are not. It reminded me of the movie "Betelgeuse," with all the lights and arrows to show where he was. The movie was intenced to be funny. "Sail" isn't.
Mr. Patterson and his various co-authors just keep turning these out, using the same basic pattern for every book. They would do well to slow down and try something worthwhile. But that would perhaps cut into the income. Silly me.
Sail July 21, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Book is great! Keeps you reading. Never know what is coming next. I love James Patterson's books, especially Alex Cross series.
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