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| Honor Thyself | 
 enlarge | Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (27 reviews)
Sales Rank: 24191
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0385340249
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385340243
ASIN: 0385340249
Publication Date: February 26, 2008
Release Date: February 26, 2008
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 Disappointed June 20, 2008
Although the story is generally okay, I was very disappointed in the ending. Not that my ending would have been perfect, there was so much lacking in the personality and the demeanor of the man she chose. In addition, the book was written without a lot of the characters' insight, I really didn't get to know the characters as well as I would have liked.
J. A. Fulkerson, Author
For Love of Teddy
Published by PublishAmerica
 An interesting Danielle Steel June 18, 2008
Just when you think it will be the same old same old Steel fools you with some interesting insights.
Another badly written DS novel May 11, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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?
 one star is even too much May 10, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Could not get past the third page as I found that seemingly once again there was not a "live editor" involved. How many misplaced commas can there be on one page? Counting them was more interesting than trying to read this latest piece of nonsense.
 I'm 1/3 way through April 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the first time I've read Danielle Steel. I have read a lot of books about writing novels though. She seems to be breaking numerous novel 101 rules! But I keep thinking she can get away with it because she is Danielle Steel. If I wrote this, I would be filing numerous rejection letters right now.
I don't mean to be so cruel. It is keeping my interest and I want to keep reading to see what happens to Carole and her family. But everything in her past is WAY too perfect. And then, conveniently enough, she is a victim of a terrorist attack in romantic Paris (right near the Louvre!) - an attack that the Arab world is heartbroken about ... and the injury is to her brain stem. The area that affects memory. (Where did she get that from? Web MD?) And the big-fat-shove-it-down-your-throat-you-novice rule "show don't tell" apparently doesn't apply to Steel's writing. I'm shocked how much she just puts out there and the number of cliches in her writing. Just shocked.
And, gosh, every man that ever had a kiss with her is still smitten beyond belief like 100 years later. oooo ... kay!
I feel totally like Simon Cowell, but I'm just trying to keep it real and put it out there.
Let's hope it keeps me intrigued till the end. But I'm starting to think it is becoming something of a commodity and no longer art.
Okay ... update May 8, 2008
I made it to page 167 ... more than halfway through. But I've completely lost interest. I could care less what happens to the main character (I've already forgotten her name.) I'm returning it to the library today. Thank goodness I didn't spend my money on it.
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