Book For This Week - 11-10- 2010

Shutter Island

by


Dennis Lehane

From the Publisher's Website:

"The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, “Startlingly original.” The Washington Post raves, “Brilliantly conceived and executed.” A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone, Shutter Island carries the reader into a nightmare world of madness, mind control, and CIA Cold War paranoia and is unlike anything you’ve ever read before.  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 barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades—with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems. "

(Having just finished listening to this on audio tonight,  I can emphatically say that I would never have finished it had it not been the selection of the month for December at my book group at the library.   I can't say that the story didn't suck me into it,  but never the less it was a frightening experience to listen to and I have to say having finished it now -  I do not get it.  I have no interest in seeing the movie either.  The trailer will follow.   Again I do not recommend this book.  As always, click on the author's name and the book title to learn more)