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Shutter Island | 
 enlarge | Author: Dennis Lehane
Publisher: HarperTorch
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Rating:  387 reviews
Sales Rank: 4378
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4 x 1.2
ISBN: 038073186X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780380731862
ASIN: 038073186X
Publication Date: April 2004
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The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades -- with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.
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fun and intriguing read July 1, 2008
Kaye Webb (St. Louis, MO)
This is the second Lehane I have read, following Mystic River (before the movie came out), and I wasn't at all disappointed. The theme of this book is very different from Mystic River in that it is less realistic, but I found myself buzzing right through it. I was always looking to figure out the next turn. I am a person who bores with books very easily (I can't even count the number of books I have read half of), but this book really kept my attention and interest. The end, when everything is pulled together, is pretty brilliant as well. Looking forward to Scorcese's movie.
 Boring beginning, great middle, horrible cop-out/rip-off ending July 1, 2008
Ray Smith (Los Angeles, CA USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is my first Dennis Lehane novel, and I read this because I know this is the next Scorsese/DiCaprio movie. And having read this novel, I think this will be the first and LAST Dennis Lehane I'll read.
The story starts off VERY slowly--two US marshals investigate the disappearance of a crazy woman who'd killed her three kids. This woman is in the loony bin on Shutter Island, where the story takes place exclusively.
So the beginning unfolds, and I can say this much: Dennis Lehane is not a great writer. His dialog is often witless and overly long, and his prose quite pedestrian. When he tries to be poetic, he is often pretentious and nonsensical, like writing "he had a silkworm of a smile." And structurally the story would've been better if he'd sped up the pace a bit.
Then the middle act is absolutely terrific when we find this giant conspiracy, and Teddy and his partner Chuck (the protagonist and his sidekick) have to escape the entire island because of this giant conspiracy. Yes, Lehane's prose is still pedestrian, but you can write inelegant prose and the novel can still pack a wallop. So I was very excited reading this middle part.
*** SPOILERS AHEAD ***
Finally, though there's the climax, and when Teddy gets to the lighthouse and confronts the mad doctor, and the mad doctor starts babbling away, I was like, You got to be kidding me?!! This is A TOTAL RIP-OFF of the 1920s movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari! I was like, No, it can't be. At some point, we would see the mad doctor truly IS the mad doctor, and he's just trying to trick Teddy into thinking he's insane. But noooooo, Teddy really is insane, and everything in the story is just his delusion. Even cheesy action movies like Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recall don't stoop to: "Ohhh, everything's just a dream." I mean, this is grade-school storytelling!
Cop-out ending + ripping off a famous movie = a crappy novel. I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because Lehane had me fooled it was a decent novel in the middle.
Such a disappointment after MYSTIC RIVER June 27, 2008
Martha B. Spencer (Raleigh, NC USA)
I listened to this novel set in Massachusetts read by Tom Stechshulte and he was absolutely the wrong person to read this book. He turned every African-American character into some trash-talking ignoramus from the South.
The novel itself has suspense and if I had read it instead of listening, might feel more positive toward it. The ending was so farfetched that I just had to laugh.
I need another story like MYSTIC RIVER to make me believe in Dennis LeHane again.
 OK but bad ending... May 27, 2008
Matthew Brown (Marshall, MI)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first 2/3rds of the book are great. Really draws you in as the mystery develops. But the end is very anti-climactic, with a very predictable "surprise" ending...lame!
 Amazing! May 22, 2008
Zaxoma (Maine, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Am an admirer of Lehane's books and his writing style but this one blew me out of the water! I couldn't believe the ending and found myself re-reading the last 10 or so pages several times - brilliant!
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