| Swimming to Catalina | 
 enlarge | Authors: Stuart Woods, (none)
Publisher: HarperTorch
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 45869
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0061099805
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780061099809
ASIN: 0061099805
Publication Date: December 1, 1998
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 More like Drowning To Catalina... July 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I'm into a good read, I will have that book by my side until it's finished.. I put this book down for 5 days and nearly forgot about it! If that tells you much..
I have been caught in a spell of finding horribly boring books lately, where this book was recommended as "an amazing story." How could you go wrong with that?, I thought. Yeah well, to my disappointment, I was bored through this entire book. There were so many different characters and names to remember, I got lost a nearly gave up in the beginning. Forcing myself to finish the book, I was hoping for a possible twist ending to wake me up, but that never happened. I ended up skipping about 30-40 pgs to get to the last chapter -just to see how it ends (so I could start on a real page turner). Little to my surprise it was a depressing ending. How do books like these get published? Honestly!?
 Woods is a quick read, but pretty lousy March 30, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was better than Dark Harbor (the first and most recent book I have read from this author), but not much better. I like Woods' style of writing, it is quick and to the point, but his plots are so ridiculous, it's hard to get through. His books should be half as long because all his characters go around in circles about a dozen times. He's got to come up with some better names: Stone? Arrington? Dino? Ippolito? Barrington? C'mon, buddy.
What else can I say, it's slightly less stupid than Dark Harbor. Stone really needs to dump Arrington and get a better friend than Dino.
This book doesn't have any plot twists or multiple suspects to care about. And the direction he gets the reader to go in from the beginning is never touched upon until the last four pages.
 Excellent read February 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
He makes the books very exciting and I just want to hurry and read it so I know how it ends. To keep a person attached to a book like that takes a lot of talent, and he's got it.
Standard Stone Barrington tale January 3, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Stuart Woods can write really good novels like "Chiefs", but this is not close to that quality. However, it is an entertaining and moderately exciting read. Not the author's best, but readable and enjoyable.
This book makes a real splash! April 13, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Wow, what an amazing book - it starts with a splash (literally) in the prologue, where we find Stone Barrington, bound with duct tape, being chained to an anchor, then summarily thrown into the Pacific. Flashback to New York: he receives a phone call from Vance Calder - Arrington is missing, can Stone come to LA right away? At first Stone demurs, then Vance throws in the kicker - Arrington is pregnant. Whose baby is it? Not even Arrington knows. When Stone gets to LA, however, Vance is behaving a bit peculiarly, and suddenly Stone finds himself being distracted from the case - first by being abruptly cast for a role in the movie that Vance is filming (much to Stone's horror and embarassment!), then by Vance's secretary . . . then by a girl he finds who looks a great deal like Arrington and who, strangely, is driving Arrington's car. The twists and turns keep coming as Stone runs up against some major Mafia movers and shakers without even knowing why (and his reaction - and revenge - is hysterically funny).
This was a page-turner, no doubt. I enjoyed watching Stone enjoy himself out in La La land (as he called it) and hope to see him make another trip "out west" again in the future!
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