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1) Audio CD Book The Gate House by Hachette Audio. Dairy of a sarcastic cynical satyr
Sex in the morning, sex at lunch, sex on the patio table, sex in a Grecian love temple, sex.........................., well you get the picture. Nelson DeMille´s The Gate House is a sad yet funny romp through the remnants of the fabled decadent Long Island "Gold Coast". Hardly a chapter goes by without someone´s sexual fantasy being fulfilled: And yet Mr. DeMille is able to keep the story together in a morosely sarcastic humorous way. Funny yes, sad yes, believable no, yet I simply could not stop reading and laughing. At times I felt I was watching an uproariously funny Dennis Miller skit. In all of Mr. DeMille´s novels he uses sarcastic wit to keep the reader engaged. In The Gate House he is over-the-top with sarcastic humor and at times becomes too predictable, but still I found myself laughing at the absolute buffoonery of some of the characters.
In essence the story is a month in the life of protagonist John Sutter, his dysfunctional family, mobster neighbors, strange friends, and even weirder acquaintances. At 675 pages I was expecting R.P. McMurphy of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest" fame to make an appearance. Sadly, he was held up at the station. There really is not much to go into detail about. It is a superficial story of a man who is fundamentally unhappy yet enjoys his man-made hell. It is a combination of Dostoevsky-lite and Catch 22 redux with a pinch of Dennis Miller wit. Bottom line is I liked it. Why? Heck I don´t know why but I did. Although not his best novel, I long for John Corey and his sarcasm and wit, it is still a good read. My advice is to simply go along for the ride and don´t expect too much. With that in mind, you´ll find yourself laughing your posterior off.
Lots of gratuitous sex, and language. Some graphic violence.
Character development was shallow but fun. It is hard to tell what makes these characters tick but one thing is certain, even they don´t know!
Recommend: I´m ambivalent here. I like Nelson DeMille although his last few works have tailed off. I definitely would read this novel but is it worth the $28? Probably not. Wait for the paperback or get it at your local library. I´m am hoping that his next novel with John Corey will return Mr. DeMille to his literary excellence.
¤ 2) Audio CD Book The Gate House by Hachette Audio. This story just did´nt have the readability of a usual demille novel. Yes we get it. he loves his ex. must we go on and on about it? Nelson, try another stand alone novel please!!!!¤ 3) Audio CD Book The Gate House by Hachette Audio. This review of The Gate House is based on the unabridged audio book by Nelson DeMille and read by Christian Rummel. This is a sequel to the earlier bestseller, The Gold Coast, which was written some 10 years earlier.
This story is set in a world still coming to terms with the effects of 9/11. It continues the story of John Sutter and his ex-wife, Susan. Susan, rich and heir to a fortune, had an affair with a mafia don, whom she later shot and killed. The Narrator, Christian Rummel does a great job with the main character, John Sutter by using a mix of sarcasm and dry humor. The narrator also does a great job with the other voices involved in the story.
In The Gate House, John Sutter moves back from England to the Gold Coast and starts to put together the shattered pieces of his relationship and all that this entails. Throw into the mix more mafia involvement, this time Anthony Bellarosa, the son of the dead don, who has a grudge and a score to settle, and the plot starts to get a little interesting, but that is short-lived.
I had such high hopes for this book; I could not wait to get my hands on it, having enjoyed The Gold Coast, and many other DeMille books so much.
This book was almost 700 pages, or in my case 19 discs and 22 hours of listening time. The reader was great, the story started out good, but soon became long and drawn out, with no plot twists -- just a bunch of sarcasm, sex scenes and jokes along the way. I skipped discs 17 and 18 to get to the end, and honestly don´t think I missed a thing. Even the ending was disappointing.
If you are looking for an exciting thriller --this may not be the book for you, but if you like lots of sarcasm, repetition, and ethnic jokes, give this one a try.
¤ 4) Audio CD Book The Gate House by Hachette Audio. Was anyone else annoyed by the constant use of the phrase "Apropos of ........in the first several chapters. And the oft used "The aforementioned......My biggest complain is the way, way over-the-top sarcasm which was just relentless throughout the book and besides being annoying, was very distracting. (DeMille needs a refresher course on the difference between wit and sarcasm.) I´m no prude but I thought the sex scenes and references were unnecessarily crude and graphic. The only saving grace was I didn´t spend money on this book-it was loaned to me by a friend who agreed about the sarcasm.¤ 5) Audio CD Book The Gate House by Hachette Audio. Weighing in at 677 pages, this book needs to be downsized. The story starts tantalizingly enough with young Tony, aka "Anthony" Bellarosa, insinuating himself into the life of John Wittman Sutter, the husband of the woman who killed young Tony´s father, Frank Bellarosa. Great lead in so lets see what then evolves. Nothing. For approximately 400 pages nothing happens except John Sutter´s sparkling repartee and witty sarcasm, oh, and a return to Susan´s eclectic sexual antics. Now, don´t get me wrong. This repartee and sarcasm is well written (and the sex ain´t bad either). I believe I read an interview done with Mr. DeMille about why he was doing a sequel to this book. He said that readers kept wanting to know more about John and Susan´s characters. Well, you get more than you want and then find out that you really don´t like them. And there are questions: Why would John Sutter even think about working for Anthony, why do his inlaws hate his guts, what kind of a relationship did he really have with Samantha in London if he could so easily dump her, and why did it take 500 pages to get to some plot movement?! Unless you consider the conflict with the inlaws and their dislike of John and the wrangling over money, plot movement. I have read all of Mr. DeMille´s books and other than Up Country, this is the only other book I have not thoroughly enjoyed. I will always read his books and am looking forward to reading the sequel to The Lion´s Game. But, please, revert back to your other writing style and give us some action!!¤ 6) Audio CD Book The Gate House by Hachette Audio. #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille delivers the long-awaited follow-up to his classic novel The Gold Coast.
When John Sutter´s aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence in the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a quarter of a mile from Susan who has also returned to Long Island. But Susan isn´t the only person from John´s past who has reemerged: Though Frank Bellarosa, infamous Mafia don and Susan´s ex-lover, is long dead, his son, Anthony, is alive and well, and intent on two missions: Drawing John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa family, and exacting revenge on his father´s murderer--Susan Sutter. At the same time, John and Susan´s mutual attraction resurfaces and old passions begin to reignite, and John finds himself pulled deeper into a familiar web of seduction and betrayal. In THE GATE HOUSE, acclaimed author Nelson Demille brings us back to that fabled spot on the North Shore -- a place where past, present, and future collides with often unexpected results.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 16-Nov-2008, 16002466809781600246685, 940-150-790-020-280-801-8 
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