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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780316018708 ISBN: 0316018708 Label: Little, Brown and Company Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: June 09, 2008 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Release Date: June 09, 2008 Studio: Little, Brown and Company Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - How did Patterson's name get on this book?I guarantee he never even read it. This is a book about what goes on in sailing written by a guy who's never been on a boat. Paragraph after paragraph - once they're on the boat, the actions either can't happen, wouldn't happen or contradict what has already been said. If you've ever sailed, this is maddening. If you've never sailed, you will have to assume that sailors are schizophrenic superheroes who, most of the time, transform into completely useless idiots. That's what the author ... Read More Rating:  - Quick read, lacking substanceI read this book in less than 24 hours. The chapters are short like most Patterson books. This book lacked detail and the detail it had was humorous. There is a wealthy lawyer from Manhattan and it is stated that you can tell he is rich because he has his own aircraft. The aircraft listed is a Cessna Skyhawk. This aircraft is a training aircraft and one used by most novice aviators of middle class, not overpaid lawyers from NY. This book reads just slightly better than a Encyclopedia ... Read More Rating: - Too implausable to be enjoyedThe mother of a wealthy, dysfunctional family decides to spend a summer sailing with her teenage children in hopes of improving relationships between siblings and their mother. They invite the uncle of the children to join them as captain of the yacht. The children's stepfather, a wealthy lawyer, stays home in New York so the mother and her children can bond better without competing with the husband/wife relationship. Things start to go wrong aboard the boat from day one. Someone has tampered with ... Read More Rating: - AWFUL DISSAPOINTMENT!As a James patterson fan, I was deeply dissaointed with this book. Its obvious he is just letting his name be attached to books just to make money. This was more predictable, fake, and unrealistic than a silly movie. I was flipping the pages literally stunned that each event was ACTUALLY happening because it was so stupid and surreal. Dont waste your time. This book stinks. Rating: - The Patterson name must be a stamp.James Patterson has written some memorable thrillers but Sail seems to be written by a ghost writer who is new (or tired) of the genre and pushed to this book on the masses using the Patterson label. Don't get me wrong, this is a quick and easy read, but the characters never seem to grasp the readers interest. The scene is set when the dad is killed in a sailing accident and the family tumbles into chaos. The mother is a character that should have been written out of the story. The dialog seems to date back to the ... Read More 
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