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Shutter Island
 

Shutter Island

by Dennis Lehane


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... (read more)

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Ryan C
  • Rated 5 stars

“View Original Post: http://loureads.blogspot.com/2008/01/shutter-island-by-dennis-lehane.html

The "what the hell happened?" ending of Shutter Island is as thuddingly fantastic as the "what the heck was that?" ending of Bad Monkeys was terrible. This thrilling, terrifying book kept me on edge and confused (in a good way) from beginning to end.

Lehane, author of Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone, opens the book with a mystery and then plunges us back in time nearly forty years...”

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Spencer B
  • Rated 2 stars

“Every other Dennis Lehane book is excellent. This is the exception: a predictable and well-worn genre exercise that pales in comparison to the excellent work Lehane was doing on The Wire at the same time. Skip this, but do yourself a favor and read EVERY other Lehane book.”

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  • Rated 3.885845 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
  

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  • JennyAnne

    jennyanne said:

    “I was with it until the end. I need closure. Maybe I'm just dense, but I didn't understand the end. I was left feeling cheated, like Lehane had used the whole, "It's only a dream," trick. ”

    posted Wednesday, January 23 2008
  • Angie D

    angie d said:

    “One of the best thrillers I've ever read”

    posted Friday, October 19 2007
  • Khim

    khim said:

    “A real page turner! Highly recommended!”

    posted Saturday, August 11 2007
  • TheLibrarian

    thelibrarian said:

    “This is one of those rare books that the reader can justify his/her favored ending for. It's an exercise in figuring out what "really" happens. Was the the main character really an investigator? Or, was he really an inmate himself? I've read this book more than once and looked for clues, but haven't found anything conclusive. What do you think reality is?”

    posted Wednesday, July 18 2007
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