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Title: Incredibly BAD Writing
Review: This was my first read of anything by the alleged great Sidney Sheldon - and I was shocked at how poorly it was written. The entire time I was reading it, I felt like the author was racing to slap the words on a page and get it over with. This was especially true of the dialogue. It is laughingly, pathetically BAD. There is nothing about it that feels or sounds like how people actually talk to each other! It had a forced, rushed quality to it, like maybe the golf links were calling to the writer and he couldn't wait to get this assignment over and done with. The plot was predictable and trite and quite honestly, I'm amazed I stuck with this book until the end. I guess I kept hoping that it would improve - I mean, after all, the late great Sidney Sheldon's name is on it, right? But sadly no - no improvement ever came. It leaves me to wonder if he indeed had anything to do with its actual creation. I will be hard-pressed to want to ever read anything by him again.
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