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Saturday, June 26, 2010

On iphone warranty

I've finished reading the Alex Cross book Roses are Red, and now I'm close to the end of Violets are Blue. James Patterson is a very cinematic writer, I think. He comes up with quite dramatic plots, and plot twists and turns. Roses are Red has an intriguing premise, and Violets are Blue goes deep into the vampire underground. But the ultimate criminal goes undetected in Roses are Red, and apparently in earlier books. I don't know whether his existence was even hinted at, let alone his identity revealed, in the books leading up to Roses are Red. I don't know. If so, it'd be very frustrating for readers of those books. I felt the same way when I read it. I hadn't planned to read any more Patterson books for a while, but I had to look for Violets are Blue at the library so I could read it right away. They use cell phones, and if those events were taking place now, Alex Cross would need an iphone warranty, because he now has just learned the identity of his enemy, and I know he'll win, because this is not the final book in the series, but not how.