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- Verlag: Hachette Audio; Auflage: Abridged (1. November 2005)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 159483119X
- ISBN-13: 978-1594831195
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,3 x 1,6 x 14,6 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.2 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (174 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 510.374 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Advertising executive Patterson doubles neither our pleasure nor our fun by giving us two intense, Hannibal Lecter-type murderers for the price of one in an improbable and hopelessly derivative mess of a thriller. Feds and local authorities on both coasts are baffled by a pair of serial killers targeting beautiful young women: The Gentleman Caller works the scene in sunny L.A., where he brutally murders and dismembers his prey; his counterpart back East, who calls himself Casanova, trolls the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area for sexy coeds to victimize. Their MOs provide plenty of fodder for an author trying to cook up a work of psychological terror: Both are powerful, handsome, brilliant (natch), commit perfect crimes, and, despite their busy schedules, manage to keep in touch with each other. To catch them, you obviously need a perfect crime fighter. Enter Alex Cross, the Washington, D.C., detective/psychologist hero of bestselling Along Came A Spider (1993), who gets dragged into all this after his niece Naomi, a student at Duke University, vanishes. Working with the authorities and a medical student named Kate McTiernan, who was lucky enough to escape Casanova's clutches, Cross begins to understand how the two dueling psychos operate. Just in the nick of time, too, because the Gentleman Caller, on the run from the law out West, decides that nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina with his old buddy Casanova. So, what does Cross, whose favorite niece is now in the clutches of two sickos, do? Fall in love with Kate McTiernan, of course, in an ill-placed romantic subplot intended to raise the stakes in the deadly cat-and-mouse game. Does Cross save Naomi? Are the two killers brought to justice or, at the very least, consigned to gory demises? Who cares? As a storyteller, Patterson is a great ad copywriter. (First priting of 275,000; film rights to Paramount; Book-of-the-Month Club main selection) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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"Casanova" works the East Coast, "The Gentleman Caller" works the West Coast, and these two serial killers might just be working together. Washed-up Washington, D.C., police detective Alex Cross gets involved when his niece is abducted. Since this is a new work by the author of the best-selling Along Came a Spider (LJ 12/92), don't be surprised that Paramount has bought the film rights and that BOMC has made it a main selection.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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Kiss the Girls is a wonderful, suspenseful novel, yet it lacks in a few areas. First of all, a positive point is that author James Patterson keeps the reader's attention without stop. One unexpected event leads to another and another. This accounts for the reason why this book is considered a novel in the suspense genre. James Patterson is talented. That one sentence describes the whole book. Many people, including I, could not put the book down, if we had used all the will power within us. Kiss the Girls is one of the best I have ever read and indescribable to the point where one has to experience. The reality of the book is astonishing. It's as if the tension and outrageous environments are palpable. Many times I felt as if I were transported in time and with the women in the "horror house."
As each chapter passes by, Patterson feeds his readers a tid-bit of information, just to keep the reader on his toes. The two to three page chapters is a useful technique to keep the reader flipping the pages. Anticipating the next move of Casanova and reading on to find out his conquests is bone-chilling. Just the descriptive words will make you cringe inside.
The way Patterson portrays the characters makes them just like people we know. Alex Cross is a person who is true to life; how he sometimes acts impulsively and is a careeroholic makes him all the more real. Kate's character makes us want to sympathize with her and fall in love with her, the first time we meet her. Naturally, the humane compassion side of us wants to reach out to her and pluck her out of the horrid conditions. Overall, the character portrayal is a depiction of reality.
At times, the book slows its pace to a snail's crawl. This can be viewed in both a good way and a bad. First, a slowed down pace is necessary in a fast-paced book like this one. On the other hand, the slower parts detract the reader's attention to the faster paced parts.
Reading this book made me think how horrible and corrupted our world is. There are people out there who actually kill for a living and indulge in it while they're at it. This is just plain scary.
Talking about scary, I would recommend this book to people who doesn't get nightmares easily. Also, people who are of younger age shouldn't read this book either because at times, it gets graphic. Basically, kids shouldn't be exposed to the harsh realizations of life, like serial killings, even though this is only a fiction book. Stories like this are all over the news, and so this book isn't just fiction. These serial murderers exist, and unfortunately these killings happen in real life too.
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This is probably James Pattersons best book. Two egomaniac killers team up and kidnap beautyful women. One makes a mistake: he takes Alex Cross niece and thus makes the hunt very personal. Cross is lucky that his best friend Sampson helps him again with this case: both killers are very intelligent and hard to catch...
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Of all of Patterson's "Cross" novels, this still remains my favorite. The premise was (at the time of writing) original and amazing. You could practically feel yourself there among the women trapped in Casanova's collection at times, and it was all in all a great book. The movie tried to be faithful to it, but 60-year-old Morgan Freeman as a thirtysomething Alex Cross just didn't cut it. Don't base your opinion of the book on that movie...trust me. This book is one you'll finish quickly and enjoy tremendously.
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Der größte Liebhaber der Welt schlägt zu...
Nach "Along came a Spider" dürstete ich förmlich danach, den zweiten band "Kiss the Girls" in die Hände zu bekommen. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Mai 2009 von Tschonnes
Amazing!!!
This was my first book from James Patterson and I surely will read more crime novels from him!! Until the end the book was enthralling and Patterson keeps the reader constantly... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. November 2008 von Kerstin0705
His Pinnacle!!!
For three weeks the boy lived in the walls of the rich family's house. Watching the gorgeous teenage girl, Coty. Waiting. Then one dark night he goes to her. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. Februar 2002 von "glennmiller3"
EXCELLENT
I gave it 4 stars and it will be rare when you ever see me give out 5. I liked Along Came a Spider more than Kiss the girls but this was very good. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Mai 2000 von Greg Maxwell
Decent, but not a great...
This book was enjoyable but felt rather two-dimensional. I mean, you hardly got to know the Gentleman Caller, and before you can realize it, he's dead. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Mai 2000 von John
Good no brainer
This was a good book, with a chilling plot. Not to be read while home alone-ladies. It turns your stomache in a way that the movie was unable to do (and keep its rating to an R). Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Mai 2000 von "kotinca"
KISS THE GIRLS
This is an unexplainably awesome book with a great story and scary parts to make you wanna scream!
Casanova is the woman collector and is first ever real love, Kate McTiernan... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. April 2000 von urbanlegend23
One Wild Ride!
From the 1st page, I was hooked and I wanted to do nothing except READ THIS BOOK! I couldn't turn those pages fast enough and talk about suspense, I couldn't wait to get to the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. Februar 2000 von Brian K. Walley
A good book
This was a really good book and i recomment it to other people to rea
Am 22. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
unanswered questions
Other reviewers have noted the ineptitude of the FBI in the stakeout of the cabin, the failure to search the area where the house "disappeared", the stupidity of the girl... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Februar 2000 von "genob"
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