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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780451213198
ISBN number: 045121319X
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 368
Printing Date: October 04, 2005
Publishing house: Signet
Sale Popularity Level: 163844
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Two-Dollar Bill delivers all the storytelling twists and whip-smart banter readers have come to love in Stuart Woods's thrillers, as suave Manhattan cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington is back on his home turf caught between a filthy rich conman-who's just become his client-and a beautiful prosecutor.
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I like Stuart Wood's writing style - it is light with good homour. His books are interesting and fast read. However, I have the impression that the author generally doesn't put much effort into his stories, as if he had to make a deadline and finish the novel on time. I'd also like the stories to be more realistic as they often read as fables... This review applys actually to all the books by Stuart Woods that I read. I finished Two Dollar Bills just yesterday, and I think that the novel would be much better if the author gave some more effort.
Another easy and fast reading, I suggest, is Hugger Mugger (Spenser Mysteries (Hardcover))
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Not one of his best efforts. I thought the book dragged in places and then picked up with a decent but hurried ending.
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I've read everything by Woods and love his fast-paced dialog and his descriptions of how the rich get things done. But most of his books over the last 4-5 years have well, sucked. They start out great, move fast, engage you like a roller coaster at first, but then he seems to just slap any ridiculous ending together to get it over with. It seems he's making it up as he goes versus having a complete thought in the very first place.
Now that he routinely mixes characters across series, they all seem to be chapters of each other and are instantly forgettable. And even though this is beach fare and I've taken them from the library, I hate feeling duped by a really lousy ending.
I think Woods would really like to write Hollywood action blockbuster but Stone as 007 is silly. His descriptions of people hanging from helicopters, huge explosions, etc, just don't cut it. I think I'll only read the very first two thirds of his future books and leave the endings to my own imagination.
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Woods is getting to be too much of a formula writer. Little mystery; much out of any recent Stone Barrington Book reads as if author wants to have Barrington be some kind of aspriational hero for readers. Woods' earlier books far superior. If I buy any more of Woods' books, it will only be in paperback. Not worth the hard cover price.
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Picking up a Stone Barrington novel is like visiting an old friend. Namely, a slick, slightly upper class friend who has almost everything.
Two Dollar Bill introduces a character named Bullit, who is a rich investor from Texas. Stone asks for Bullit to stay at his house, and the subsequent morning, a call girl winds up dead in Stone's guest room.
From there, Stone is hurled into figuring out who Bullit is, and what his scheme is, ending with a little suprise at the end.
All in all, a fast moving, engaging plot as one would suspect no less from a Stuart Woods Stone Barrington novel.
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