Cross Country (Alex Cross)
by James Patterson
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Author: James PattersonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-10-01
ISBN: 044653630X
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Vision
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- #1 New York Times Bestseller
- #1 Washington Post
- #1 Entertainment Weekly
Book Reviews of Cross Country (Alex Cross)
Book Review: 158 "CHAPTERS" in 403 pages??!!
Summary: 1 Stars
The dimensions are correct, but "448 pages"? My Vision reprint copy has only 427 pages (403 pages devoted to the story, the balance being 'previews'). I found the story content only fair to poor (and a lesson for me to avoid newer Patterson books and stick with his much earlier editions).
What I found especially disturbing for a short novel, was it having no less than ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT chapters!!!
Each chapter has one to two pages of 'blank' page, so it's easy to see that 403 pages of story, minus (conservatively estimating I believe) 158 blank pages devoted to "chapters", reduces the story down to about 245 pages. I mean, really, these are one to three page "chapters". Ugh!!! What a rip-off!
The print size is also LARGER than what I see as normal. That is, each page merely has 35 lines. For this size book, I'm used to 38 lines. So, the larger type reduces the story content still further to the equivalent of 35/38 x 245 pages = about 225 pages.
So, if you're buying this book expecting "448 pages" worth of story for your money, you may be very peeved to encounter what I see as the equivalent of merely 225 pages.
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