Cause of Death.
by Patricia Cornwell
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Author: Patricia CornwellEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-02
ISBN: 0425213382
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Berkley
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- ISBN13: 9780425213384
- Condition: New
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Book Review: An Open Letter to Kay Scarpetta (please forward to author)
Summary: 2 Stars
Dear Dr. Scarpetta,
I have been following your adventures for nigh on ten years, and wish to bid you farewell. I doubt we shall ever meet again in a reader-main character relationship. Yes, I am sorry but you have become a pain and a bother to me, and I can no longer summon up the sympathy necessary for you, nor the patience and interest necessary to turn the pages of your story. My spare moments shall have other characters peopling them.
"Cause of Death" has done me in. I was able to read only a few dozen pages this time, although up until now I have succeeded in finishing your increasingly irritatingly surrealistic adventures.
How did this happen? Did I love you too much at the beginning? Do I expect too much from the main character in a hastily-edited serial novel?
My dear, over the years you have become more and more haughty, negative, paranoid, self-absorbed, self-centered and self-satisfied. You relate less and less well to others, to whom you show evermore coldness, anger, disdain and general ill-feeling. You are in a constantly bad mood, constantly vying for power, constantly feeling miffed and disrespected, constantly showing that you are the best at everything including scuba diving on New Year's Eve without your license, so that you are unable to enjoy even the cottage your colleague Dr. Mant lent you. There is never enough hot water for you, not even in the women's washroom of a dock/naval/abandoned ship facility.
Your author obviously cares little about the image you project anymore. You need a sense of humor. You need to lighten up. You need to become attractive to readers again. You need to ask your author to set your adventures in the summertime rather than the dreary days before Christmas or New Year's. You need a bit of humility, modesty, humanity, good sense and...some sort of authentic, altruistic caring. In short, you need a new character-life.
I know what will happen to you over the next few books, through the magic of reading reviews and have decided that I do not want to follow you to New York, or anywhere, with your miraculously resurrected True Love or your nemesis the Werewolf. Seeing how you behaved in France in another book was enough for me.
I am no longer going to be the witness to your author's acting out, either.
So this is good-bye, dear Kay. Goodbye.
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