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James Patterson is a hack. It's not uncommon for him to publish somewhere between 7 to 15 books a year. Patterson and his team of ghost writers, have figured out a way to industrialize the writing process and create a cash cow by brilliantly marketing absolute garbage to readers. It's as if Patterson's books are put together on an assembly line and what comes out on the other end when the book making process is complete is sometimes difficult to ascertain. Patterson's latest book, The Shadow re-...
A good story that empowers people. Okay to stretch the bounds of the believable. 9 of 10 stars
Anyone who had anything to do with novel should be ashamed of themselves. James Patterson should fined, if not imprisoned for this. Every corner is cut. Every shortcut is taken. Every Cliche is shown like a used car.This is simply pathetic. If I coulda, I'da given it no stars.
If there were truth in advertising, The Shadow by James Patterson and Brian Sitts would have been called Generic Dystopian Adventure. Looking for Lamont Cranston? Seeking the Shadow? Then don't read this book. Yes I know what the title says but the Master of Darkness is not really here. Yes there is a character with the same name but really what we are witnessing here is the rape and exploitation of an intellectual property for fun and profit (minus the fun part) that has been in existence since...
It is not about The Shadow at all because (1) this character has almost nothing to do with the classic character and (2) the story is about the new Mary Sue viewpoint character. Plot holes abound. Internal logic is rare. A writer who invents new superpowers for these characters does not know they didn’t need those powers in the first place, has no clue what ever made the stories work.This Shadow never owned a hat (even though just about every man in the 1930s wore hats), shoots lightning from hi...
Deeply disappointing.
I’m not quite sure why the negativity about this new book. Maybe it’s because Patterson comes out with a new book seemingly every week. Maybe it isn’t “their“ Shadow. But even from the start, there wasn’t one Shadow. The radio character was different than the pulp novels. Heck even the pulp character changed over the course of hundreds of novels. There have been dozens of comic books Shadows.Patterson brings The Shadow into a new future. Margo is also there. New look. New powers. I had fun. Ther...
Who knows what evil lurks in the Hearts of Men?The Shadow Knows...Or at least, the real Shadow knows. I'm not sure this guy does though.The Shadow is probably my favorite fictional character of all time. An agent of vengeance, one who manically laughs from behind a large slouch hat or from behind a hypnosis-fuelled invisibility cloak. He could be hiding in every corner of every room, as inevitable as a criminal’s guilty conscience. He took on gangsters, dismantled the Chicago mob, fought against...
When they started speeding up the re-releases of the original versions of the Shadow magazine and no new Dynamite comic releases where coming it was quite certain that something was up.The news that James Patterson wanted the property to rejuvenate caused fear in the hearts of the Shadow fans, he either does a very good job, as most output of the Patterson factory is quite pulpy, or it is crap. There was still some serious anticipation and to state the matter quite clear I do not know what Pater...
I gave up the struggle at chapter 21 and skipped to the hokey conclusion. This was a book absolutely devoid of the charm cast by the true The Shadow.
Thumbs up to The Shadow
The Shadow - a vigilante, mysterious figure from the 1930's is still alive! The date is 2087 and the world is ravaged by greed and social discrimination. It is now ruled by a World President and his ruthless army. The poor are helpless, marginalized and exploited. It is in this dystopian world that Lamont Cranston aka The Shadow comes back to life. Aided by the perky teenager Maddy Gomes, he takes on Gaimonde and his thugs to rid the world of another autocrat! But before that, he needs to find w...
Yes, I know Patterson doesn't really write his co-authored books anymore, but he's a guilty pleasure of mine. His books are usually entertaining popcorn thrillers but this one is probably the worst thing he's published under his name. It's a generic ya dystopian book with all the usual tropes, spunky teen girl main character, evil leaders with The Shadow thrown in the mix. The Shadow is woken up after 150 years in a coma like state, in the year 2087(ok) meets up with our main character and is pr...
This book is getting a lot of crap. It could have been a lot worse. This isn’t THE Shadow, it’s a reimagining of the concept of the Shadow. Lamont Cranston and Margo Lane exist. Lamont is the Shadow. He has some of his dark powers. And due to being poisoned, and an experimental cryogenic process, Lamont is thrust 150 years into the future. A kind of dystopian future. Where he teams up with a girl who has some familiar abilities to take down a tyrant. I liked it. It’s a fun, quick, read. I liked
This is just unbelievably bad.I didn’t expect literature, but everything about this pulp-science fiction-dystopia feels clunky and unreal, including the plot (view spoiler)[to murder tens of thousands of people at once by feeding them poisoned meet pies (hide spoiler)], the setting, (view spoiler)[New York in 2087 that is the seat of a ‘One World’ government with no sign that the rest of the world exists, (hide spoiler)] and hopelessly cliche characters. It isn’t thrilling, it isn’t funny, it is...
I LOVED THIS BOOK! I pictured this whole book in a black and white movie! A cross between an old movie, an apocalyptic story and superhero powers that made for an action packed tale that I DID NOT want to end! Loved loved loved it!!!
