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Your Learning Zone - The Gate House
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List Price: $34.98
Our Price: $21.99
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Manufacturer: Hachette Audio
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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781600246685
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 1600246680
Label: Hachette Audio
Manufacturer: Hachette Audio
Number Of Items: 3
Publication Date: 2008-10-28
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Release Date: 2008-10-28
Studio: Hachette Audio
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Summary: A bone with no meat
Comment: I generally like books by this author, but this one is not very good. Weak and extremely bloated story, filled with redundant sarcasm, and self-absorbed characters, makes for an ardorous read.
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Summary: Abridged audiobook - Poor reader-monotone voice
Comment: I haven't been able to get through the first cd. The reader Christian Rummel is awful. I wonder if DeMille is aware how bad he is. Can I return this audio because of this? I cannot conceive listening to this unpleasant voice for 9 1/2 hours.
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Summary: Gatehouse by Nelson Demille
Comment: All I needed to know before buying his book was that Nelson Demille wrote it. No one will be disaappointed. I haven't finished the novel, but the typically brilliant wit of Demille is certainly needed during the difficult times our country is experiencing.
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Summary: Sorely Disappointing
Comment: First, Nelson DeMille is my favorite author. I cannot believe I am writing a one-star review, but "The Gate House" was not even close to his other work.
I agree with most of what other one-star reviewers had to say, but I'd like to add this: Susan Sutter was completely unsympathetic, and I did not like her at all. I found it hard to believe that John was suddenly madly in love with her again. I thought he was pretending. The only time I was reminded he loved her was when he was telling us that he was. I disliked her so much that (I'm ashamed to admit) I was sort of rooting for Anthony to come along and take care of her. Then John and Elizabeth could have had a chance for real happiness. It could have been the next book.
Also, the contents of Ethel's letter didn't seem like enough to convince William Stanhope to suddenly give in to all John's demands.
I sure hope Mr. DeMille gets back to writing the way he used to.
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Summary: rehash of a rehash of a rehash...
Comment: The first half of this book rehashes a previous book, and the second half of this book rehashes the first half of this book. I REALLY hate that. Not a lot happens, and the whole story is bland. I gave it an extra star, because some of the humor was clever.
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Editorial Reviews:
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille delivers the long-awaited follow-up to his classic novel The Gold Coast.
When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence in the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a quarter of a mile from Susan who has also returned to Long Island. But Susan isn't the only person from John's past who has reemerged: Though Frank Bellarosa, infamous Mafia don and Susan's ex-lover, is long dead, his son, Anthony, is alive and well, and intent on two missions: Drawing John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa family, and exacting revenge on his father's murderer--Susan Sutter. At the same time, John and Susan's mutual attraction resurfaces and old passions begin to reignite, and John finds himself pulled deeper into a familiar web of seduction and betrayal. In THE GATE HOUSE, acclaimed author Nelson Demille brings us back to that fabled spot on the North Shore -- a place where past, present, and future collides with often unexpected results.
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