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Sail | 
| Authors: James Patterson, Howard Roughan
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $27.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  84 reviews
Sales Rank: 72
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0316018708
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316018708
ASIN: 0316018708
Publication Date: June 9, 2008
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Product Description
Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. But only an hour out of port, everything is going wrong. The teenage daughter, Carrie, is planning to drown herself. The teenage son, Mark, is high on drugs and ten-year-old Ernie is nearly catatonic. This is the worst vacation ever.
Anne manages to pull things together bit by bit, but just as they begin feeling like a family again, something catastrophic happens. Survival may be the least of their concerns.
Written with the blistering pace and shocking twists that only James Patterson can master, SAIL takes "Lost" and "Survivor" to a new level of terror.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 79 more reviews...
 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
2 out of 2 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.
Disappointed July 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've always enjoyed James Patterson's books. Very well constructed and stimulating. This book could not have been written by James Patterson. It was a trite story, poorly constructed and with chapter endings that reminded me of childhood movie serials where the hero gets into an impossible fix at the end of the chapter only to miraculously escape at the start of the next chapter.
Vintage Patterson is still a great read but not this.
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