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The Day After Tomorrow

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2 star:		(18)
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You know you are reading a good book when you glance at the clock and see that it's 2am and don't care that you have to get up for work in four hours. The Day After Tommorrow is one of those books. It is a myserious and fast-paced thriller that can stand up to the best works of Ludlum. This is a definite must-have for any political/espionage thriller lover.

From the first page until the last, this book never slows down. The twists and turns Folsom takes you through make this a ride soon not to be forgotten. And the ending added the final punch to complete the mystery.

I really enjoyed this book and I am sure you will too. It really was very hard to put down.

The book was different from many other thrillers because the "good guy" turns out to be the evil doctor who killed thousands of people, only to get himself in a position where he could kill one hundred "really bad guys" 40 years after the killing began. Confused? The book kind of does that to you. The author introduced far too many characters who were not realistic. Would a man really cut off his lower legs, just to wear different prosthetics to change costumes? Would a assassin really slit her own throat to get away from a stressed out medical intern? Would a really dumb physical therapist fall madly in love with a man she knew for only a few days, after he drugged her and let an old man sleep with her while she was passed out? Would a tourist from the US joke to another American stranger, with a gun in his beltline, about who he was going to kill?

The other annoying thing was the head in the box. Did cryogenics labs from 1945 (if there were any) provide perfect containers for a severed head, which could stand the test of time? This book would have been better predicting DNA and cloning instead of saving the heads of old guys. Wouldn't a 100+ year-old head look kinda weird on the body of a 24 year old adonis?

If you want to kill a week or so reading a stretch of anyone's imagination, go ahead. If not skip it and read one of the classics.

I can't really get into a book based on the ridiculous premise that people are being chased across Europe and killed because they have Adolf Hitler's head in a box in deep freeze and want to surgically reattach it to someone else in order to have a re-emergence of the Third Reich. The action sequences are exciting and all, but that really doesn't make up for the far-fetched fantasy world that you and I just don't live in.

Starting off thrilling and fast like bullets coming out of a machine gun, the reader is carried to various spots all over Europe. Soon he gets trapped in a net of conspiracy and mystery. The final plot goes on for over 300 pages, far too meticulous, neverending, with too many characters showing up, doing too little. We find out that all Germans hate foreigners, Germany is full of skinheads and all Germans want - even nowadays - is breed a superior race. Giving that and all those irritating spelling mistakes, this book should be read till approx. page 300 and then thrown in a basket.

"The Day After Tomorrow" is a fast-paced thrill ride. It starts as a man named Paul Osbourne sees his father's killer sitting across from him in a cafe. When Paul's emotions get the better of him, he attacks the man in front of everyone.

As the story progresses, not only do we find out that there was more to this man as we thought, but there is more to EVERYONE do we think. Paul and an American police officer (sent over to France to investigate some strange beheadings) are sent on a mad dash across Europe to escape an evil Orginazation set on killing anyone who gets in the way.

Plots and subplots galore keep this book interesting from the first page to the last. And with a finishing line enough to make one re-read it dozens of times before finally closing the cover, this is definately a book that shouldn't be missed.

Unpleasant and completely unbelievable premise; full of murder and meyham without a rational purpose. I should have listened to my inner voice to cease and desist when at the very onset of the story the author began his psycho-babble to lay a path for his 'hero'. But alas, I saw it through to the no-surprise end.

I picked up this book based on reviews, which just goes to show that YOU SHOULD NOT BELIEVE ALL THAT YOU READ, including my words.

Do not bother with this book - go and read something by Le Carre or even an early Tom Clancy novel...this book could have been written by a 10 year old. I had guessed the general theme of the ending about a quarter of the way into the book.

Terrible.

will keep you guessing until the last page. i highly recommend.

This book was amazing. The best book I've read in years. It has action, adventure and a little bit of history to boot. It is about a man how's father was murdered in Boston when he was a little boy, murdered in front of him. The murderer was never found. Then years later as an adult and a Dr he is in Paris on a conference and while sitting at a cafe he sees the man who murdered his father and from there it just goes and does not stop. Once you think you have it figured out you realize you don't and just have to continue to read it until it ends. Do not expect to get much sleep as this book is too dificult to put down.