Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (Epub)

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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.

User’s Reviews

Review “There is no mystery…about how good this book is; like Mystic River, it’s a tour de force.” From Publishers Weekly Repackaged as a tie-in to the forthcoming movie, this audio version of Lehane’s 2003 chilling novel features two U.S. marshals who arrive at an island off the coast of Massachusetts that’s being used as a federal hospital for the criminally insane. Their job: investigate the disappearance of a multiple murderess from a locked room. Tom Stechschulte’s rendition of the endlessly shifting story line is a tour de force. He begins by capturing the easygoing male bonding of the two lawmen and slowly adds a harder edge to the narration as they meet the odd people in charge of the facility and encounter an assortment of increasingly disturbing events. Even if listeners may be disappointed with Lehane’s somewhat predictable conclusion, Stechschulte’s delivery—shot through with pain and rage—ensures that they will not forget it. A Morrow hardcover. (Sept.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist Lehane is red hot–his Mystic River (2001) is currently being filmed by Clint Eastwood–and he returns with another blistering page-turner. It’s 1954, and U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule arrive at a small island in Massachusetts’ Outer Harbor. It is home to Ashcliffe Hospital, a federal institution for the criminally insane, and one of the patients has escaped. Although the two men are new partners, they have already developed a wry, jocular relationship while also swapping personal, painful details. Daniels’ lost his much-loved wife two years prior in a fire, while Aule requested a transfer out of Seattle after being harassed over his personal relationship with a Japanese American woman. After interviewing the hospital’s medical personnel, both men have the feeling they are being stonewalled, especially by the director, who seems to alternate between a cold authoritarianism and a sudden and sweeping compassion. When the island is hit by gale-force winds and Aule disappears, Daniels must go it alone, beset by the fear that he has been fed psychotropic drugs and the belief that the hospital is performing radical brain surgery as part of a secret-ops program. Lehane throws in one mind-bending plot twist after another in a psychological thriller that will leave readers in suspense right up to the end. A master of the adroit psychological detail, Lehane makes the horrors of the mean streets pale in comparison to the workings of the human mind. Joanne WilkinsonCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I don’t read a lot, but this is one of those books that I will continue to read, and will forever make time to read whenever I have the chance. I wish I could count the amount of times I have argued over the ending with my friends. I was enticed from the beginning and found myself reading this book whenever I had the chance, even skipping out on a good nights sleep to read a few more chapters. I had seen the movie before I read the book (DiCaprio makes a good Teddy Daniels) but the movie does not do this book justice. This is one of those books that you will want to (not have to, but actually want to) re-read to see if you missed anything. Overall, a simply terrific book. An easy 5 out of 5 stars.

⭐ My advice is DONT READ ANY REVIEWS, just pick up this book and start with a fresh, unincumbered mindset and enjoy the crazy ride this novel takes you on. I can’t recall reading another book in my 41 years that I finished and immediately went back to re-read. It’s a head scratcher psychological thriller, to say the least. This was a fun, fast read. I bought this book back in the fall of 2013 but did not choose to tackle it until just a few days ago. I read dozens of books a year. This is definitely one of my favorite books of this year, ranking in my top five out of a good two dozen or more in ’19. Try to catch it for $1.99 but it’s worth the $9.99 current price tag. I have not read anything else by Dennis Lehane, but noticed I have Mystic River downloaded on my Kindle. I’m going to literally re-read this book and then tackle Mystic River next.

⭐ Two federal marshals head to mysterious Shutter Island to investigate an escape. The island is home to an asylum for the criminally insane–the most violent criminals. Something is not right. A hurricane forces them to stay on the island, and layer upon layer of intrigue and doubts and strange goings on thicken the plot until its wild twisty shock conclusion. It’s a bit dark in parts. The book leaves you wondering and interpreting the ending long after you finish. You’ll want to discuss it and find out others’ opinions. I loved this book. Saw the Scorsese movie and even though it followed the book pretty closely, I say DON’T see the movie before reading the book. I was hooked from page 1.

⭐ The less you know the better can be truly said about this popular thriller that takes the reader on a harrowing journey through the battlefields of the human mind with an epic storm and setting that is sure to get the reader’s pulse racing will all the possibilities and mysteries within. If it is a question if you should read the novel first or see the silver screen adaptation before previewing the pages, please learn from my slight error (although I still enjoyed and recommend the movie version) and sit back with a copy of Shutter Island and get ready for a maze-like story with multiple points of interest and slides on the points of reality and insanity. Although the modern spiced language may somewhat disappoint some (if you are looking for authentic sounding dialogue), the presented personalities are just “there” with little color or shading and more than one or two “twists” or “clues” to the final answers are revealed too early in the beginning; this is still a unique novel with its own sinister images and secrets that may really get into the reader’s head by the final page.

⭐ How did it take me this long to discover this was a book?!?I watched the movie years ago and all I remembered was the gut wrenching scene when Leo-I mean Teddy- found the kids in the lake.When I discovered the movie was actually the film adaption of the book, I downloaded it on my kindle and was so glad it existed! I feel there were a lot of things I missed that were answered in the book. I was able to understand the long, violent history of Teddy Daniels, the strange fear of water, the denial he had to his wife’s mental illness and the guilt he carried because of it. It all made much more sense.I am sad I hadn’t discovered the book prior to the movie because if I hadn’t, this book may have had the best twist in history! I can’t wait to read more of Lehane’s works.

⭐ So, in full disclosure, I haven’t read this yet. When I read the synopsis, I was afraid it was going to be a horror story and I don’t enjoy having nightmares for ages after being so manipulated. My husband read it for me to see if it was ok and he declared that it is the best book he has read for years. He is very hard to please in his reading material so I was truly impressed. He has given me the “all clear” so this is next on my list. Because I am so thrilled to have found a book resulted in such a positive response, I thought I’d get the review in right away.

⭐ For some reason I waited a long time to read this book. Then I read a review and it said how fantastic it was, even better than the movie. I did not see the movie. The first half of the book had me wondering about it. Seemed pretty routine, well written. But, where was it going? Great book with an interesting ending.A Marshal investigating an island much like Alcatraz but for more insane people. Doctors who work with and on the patients and the levels that entails.

⭐ Lehane is a master at creating palpable tension between the covers of a book, and nowhere is that more evident than in Shutter Island. Two U.S. Marshals arrive on the island, now a hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Along the way, they begin to get hints of disturbing secrets behind the treatments being performed on the prisoner-patients, and find themselves in danger as their presence becomes a threat to the commanding staff and the place’s continued existence.Or … do they? Lehane bends and twists reality until the reader is no longer entirely sure who they are themselves, let alone the characters on the page in front of them. The way Lehane manipulates the reader’s sense of what’s true mimics the way those delusional patients seem incapable of understanding or adapting to the world around them. By the final gut-punch chapter, I was no longer sure of anything, except that Dennis Lehane is a hell of a writer.(But seriously, what the hell happened there at the end??)

⭐ Everyone loves a good Insane Asylum agreed? Take the criminally insane, add a dash of conspiracy and you are bound to have a fantastic time.I absolutely, without fail, LOVED this book. I loved it so much that I can’t even talk about it the way I should because if I do I will spoil it for you.”Shutter Island” was one of the most masterfully plotted books I have read in years… I was astounded by the depth and creativity that “Dennis Lehane” was able to shove into a little over 330 pages, and even more… I was flipping pages faster than my eyes could keep up, only to have to turn back because I realized I had skipped a few words at the bottom of a page.Teddy is a US Federal Marshal sent to Shutter Island to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Rachel Solando. While Teddy and his partner Chuck are baffled as to the disappearance of this woman, who can somehow magically evaporate through walls, they stumble upon a more intriguing case. Is this hospital really what they say it is? Why does everyone answer questions with the exact same phrasing…and why in the world is a sewage treatment plant surrounded by an electric fence? While Teddy and Chuck race for answers they find themselves in the deepest water imaginable…are they crazy too or is it just in their heads?I wish that my bumbling words could express to you how much you should read this book. I wish that I could give away the plot twist that had me picking up the phone to call my husband and say “No Freaking Way!!! Are you F’ing Kidding Me????” But again… that would just be cruel.There were uncomfortable moments in the water with creepy crawlers, piles of strategically placed rocks, battered patients whispering sweet nothings, a sad mommy, black shoe polish, water guns, and 1 number solving shrink that has all the answers.Pick this book up, find a quiet place, and start reading… I assure you that even if you think the first couple of chapters are slow you will be thanking me by chapter 5.Happy Reading my fellow Kindle-ites and remember: Don’t take pills from strangers!

⭐ It’s 1954. Teddy Daniels and his partner are both FBI agents investigating a missing persons report on Shutter Island, a psychiatric facility for the criminally insane. The missing person is a mass murderer who has escaped the mental hospital on the island. Knitting together clues, Teddy becomes convinced that the doctors and patients are all setting him up for something, but he has no clue what, until the end. And what an ending!The graphic novel is based on the book (not the film) written by Dennis Lehane. The muddy brown & yellows are thanks to French artist Christian De Metter. The art is important to the story, to convey the depravity and depression often associated with places like this.I have not read the book nor seen the movie, so I can only assume the ending is the same. The panels are written out like a standard comic book, with no splash pages or excitement of a thrilling ending. The story plods along in some places – the parts with no dialogue and just pictures is especially interesting and leads you on a merry mind-bending chase.If Dennis Lehane is making some kind of commentary on psychiatric methods, he’s doing a good job. Is it “therapy” to lock someone up, possibly for life, filling a patient with drugs and arcane and at times evaluative silly advice that does nothing to forward sanity?Interesting subplots: Who is this girl that disappeared from her cell? Why are there guards around a “sanitation facility?” And what’s the meaning of a code found in the missing girl’s room? All artfully done, all suspenseful in reading.There are some murder scenes, some craziness and some blood but not graphically so.Check out the publisher’s websites, at the Tokyopop and Harper Collins websites for more info on the book and its critical reception.

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