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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
I've just started James Patterson's first of the series "Private," and I'm really surprised at the poor writing style this book is delivering, especially with its dialog. Very amateurish for Patterson. I usually enjoy his writing. This book is jumping around with half a dozen different sub-plots, and I'm really hoping he has some intention of bringing them together some how, but I'm getting the feeling that this is a collection of ideas that he'd been thinking about for separate books but couldn't flesh them out so tried to use them in this fashion. I'll finish the book, but if it doesn't improve will not continue with the series.
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I just read another hundred pages and I'm quite willing to believe that this wasn't even written by Patterson! I've followed several of his series in the past, but this seems to be written by a college freshman for an assignment in a creative writing class. It certainly couldn't have been edited by a professional either! The plot is good, but the execution is remarkably bad.
Stitchawl