Customer Reviews

Honor Thyself

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4 star:		(7)
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2 star:		(11)
1 star:		(17)

 

 

Unfortunately, this volume is a total waste of one's valuable time. The entire volume can be totally summed up in one long sentence. It is very, very repetetive... and is a book that you felt you have already read. I listened to this on CD and noticed how short and simplistic her sentence structure was. I saw Ms. Steel recently interviewed on TV when she stated that she has "5 different books in progress at a given time." Might I suggest that she spend a little more time to create a quality product rather than just quantity. SISTERS was her only semi decent title in years.

This wasn't Danielle Steel best. It was formulastic . It starts with famous actress Carole Barber who clings to life and memory after a bomb explosion. Throughout the novel over and over again. She explains she doesn't have any feelings for ex-husband Jason. Yes we get it!But she has feelings for a person who refused to leave his wife for her. Go figure! At the end you kind of left hanging. Bypass this novel

I had such high hopes for this book. After many disappointments with Danielle Steel's books lately, the synopsis seemed interesting.

Alas. This is far from ds at her best, when she was writing really good boooks. The last fairly acceptable one being "Sisters".

"Honor Thyself" starts out with 50 year old world famous movie star Carole Barber, trying to write a semi-biographic book. A very sympathetic heroine, too perfect perhaps, but that is regular ds recipe. However, already the first 20-30 pages are so repetitive and downright boring that I only kept reading in the hope that it would all get better.

In a way it does. Carole ends up in an awful accident, a terrorist attack in Paris. She almost dies, lies in a coma for a long time. Wakes up, does not recognize anyone, not even her children.

She finally gets better and gets a new lease on life. She finds the answers she has been seeking from her past and her loves. The book has a happy, perhaps a bit unexpected ending. That is, if you manage to get so far (or only take a peep in order to find out). Because, even if things do happen in this book, it continues being extremely repetitive and lacking substance. A big yawn, all the way!

If propery edited, it could have been a nice little short story, but there certainly is not material for much more than that.

Danielle Steels is such a fine writer who has given me so much pleasure with her numerous excellent works. Please get back to the quality of quite a long time ago. This book is a waste of money both in hardcover and paperback.

I'm not going to go into the synopsis of this book as doing so will only prolong the agony of having to deal with this title. Ms. Steel's writing is not what it used to be. Perhaps if she turned out fewer books a year, she could concentrate on quality of her writing. The plot is loose and didn't hold my interest as I had hoped it would. Character growth is short and frankly unsatisfying. Again I can't help but suggest you read her earlier works as those were rich with characters, plot and writing.

I know I've said that I won't buy or read any more of her novels. But I keep hoping she'll go back to her style from years ago---when she did research on her stories, used good grammar and had a much better style in her writing. Now it's all about repeating the same information over and over again, using very poor grammer, way too many sentences that start with "and" and just very poorly constructed sentences.

However, I have learned to skim thru her books and just scratch the surface of her story. If you do that, it's not a bad story. It does have some intersting story lines---with the terrorist bombing in a Paris tunnel to her amnesia, her "old" heart throb, her children,etc. But you have to skim quickly to avoid all the things that have now marked Ms.Steel as a poor writer.

And to the person who wrote that this is an insight into Hollywood---don't count on it. She did absolutely no research on how this would have happened in the real world. And her main character having amnesia never would have said the things she said as she was "coming out" of her coma. This was not a medically sound story of brain injury patients. Being a nurse gives me the ability to critique that part of her story---and she did not portray a realisic post-traumatic brain injury----not even close.

I do not recommend this book to anyone. I can only hope that Ms. Steele would take the time to read reviews from readers and learn that we're not happy with her new style of writing----and her mass productions of way too many books that are becoming less and less interesting. Perhaps if we stop buying and reading her novels, she'll either retire from writing or go back to her previous novels and re-capture that side of her talent. We can only hope. She was at one time a very talented writer. What happened?

Another disappointing novel from Steel. As stated before in other reviews, the repitition runs rampant yet again in this book. Steel has lost the ability to write quality novels. I wonder if she or her publisher actually read what she writes anymore. Saying the same thing over and over, page after page is not worthy of a multi million dollar paycheck. There is nothing to this story. It drags on and on.

Steel should be donating every penny earned to charity from her last 10 books. She should be ashamed to have her name written on such drivel.

Perhaps Steel should read her early books, back when quality over quantity was evident.

DON'T waste your money on this one. I learned that lesson about the last 7 years or so. I expect very little from Steel anymore. Get the book from the library only costs me my time.

C'mon Danielle...WAKE UP or give it up.

I was very disappointed. Like the other reviewers, it's very repetative. The author takes one idea, such as her husband leaving her, and writes about it in several different ways one after the other. I got the feeling after reading this book that there wasn't really enough of a story to fill the book so each memory Carole Barber had was discribed endlessly over many pages. The only exciting event in the whole book was when the terrorist came to her hospital room and tried to kill her. Unfortunately that was the only highlight to the whole story. I just got tired of reading the same events in her life over and over again just re-hashed in different ways. Pass this one over.

I agree with another reader. This book was boring and very repetitive. I felt like I was reading the same descriptions and sentences over and over. And I was! Total disappointment which surprised me - D.S. is usually very good!
N. McCool

I FELT LIKE THIS STORY WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT FOR A 16-17 YEAR OLD TO READ. IT WAS SO BORING, I COULDN'T EVEN FINISH IT. IF YOU WANT TO GOOD READ, THIS BOOK IS NOT IT!!!!

This was one of the worst stories I've ever endured. The characters were too superficial, the author repeated the same things many times over, as if the audience can't recall key points made just a page or two earlier. I listened to the audio book and found it very frustrating.