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| The Gate House | 
 enlarge | Author: Nelson Demille
Creator: Christian Rummel
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Category: Book
List Price: $49.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 4717
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 19
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.3 x 2.1
ISBN: 1600244106
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781600244100
ASIN: 1600244106
Publication Date: October 28, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille delivers the long-awaited follow-up to his classic novel The Gold Coast.
When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence in the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a quarter of a mile from Susan who has also returned to Long Island. But Susan isn't the only person from John's past who has reemerged: Though Frank Bellarosa, infamous Mafia don and Susan's ex-lover, is long dead, his son, Anthony, is alive and well, and intent on two missions: Drawing John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa family, and exacting revenge on his father's murderer--Susan Sutter. At the same time, John and Susan's mutual attraction resurfaces and old passions begin to reignite, and John finds himself pulled deeper into a familiar web of seduction and betrayal. In THE GATE HOUSE, acclaimed author Nelson Demille brings us back to that fabled spot on the North Shore -- a place where past, present, and future collides with often unexpected results.
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 Put me to sleep November 19, 2008
I have always enjoyed DeMille's books for my cross country drive. This one was to be 19 hours of listening pleasure. The reader put me to sleep! The story seems fine (only 1/2 way through the first disk), but will have to keep for shorter drives. Not something I can listen to on the highway at 70 mph!
 A tedious novel by a great novelist November 19, 2008
I have read every Nelson DeMille book and have always considered him a wonderful writer but "The Gate House" is one overlong pretentious piece of boredom. At nearly 700 pages, it is a sad sequel to the fine "Gold Coast" written nearly 20 years ago. The story is fairly simple..a man returns to the site where his wife murdered a mafioso don 10 years after the fact. He meets the son of the former don who seems threatening but tries to come across as a "not at all vengeful" person. He reconnects with his former wife and members of his family. Will the new Don threaten him or his wife? How has his family changed since his absence? How many times will he have sex with how many different women? After the first couple of hundred pages, you simply won't care. There is way too much dialogue that often stretches over multiple chapters with no point. It's a bit like the Steve Martin line in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" when he says to John Candy, "When you tell a story try to have a point to it. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener" (Substitute reader in the case of this book!) If you want to read a thick epic novel that fascinates and moves at a rapid speed, pick up "The Given Day" by Dennis Lehane. If you want to read a social satire (which DeMille seems to be attempting here) go back and read "Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe. This book finally reaches it's presumed and unsurprising conclusion in the final 50 pages but by that time, I was so bored by Sutter's sarcastic and witty remarks I simply wanted this book to be finished. To that point, the characters opposite Sutter continually comment on how witty he is which seems to be DeMille complimenting himself on his charming style. The wit or so called wit actually wears on the reader. John Sutter thinks he should say "blah blah blah" but it's too smarmy so he actually says "yadda yadda"! After about the 59th such example of this method, you want to scream! So many of my favorite books have been written by this author. "The General's Daughter" "Word of Honor", "Plum Island" "The Charm School" are just a few examples so if you hate this book like I did, at least check out some of his others and you will be surprised at the quality. I realize this book is a number one bestseller so criticism has little impact but see how many bad reviews from readers are on this site and think twice about immersing your mind and wasting your time on "The Gate House".
 hilarious November 19, 2008
I'm surprised so many people disliked it after saying they were DeMille fans. Of course it dragged on. A lot of scenes in his books do; the tour of Plum Island, or the boat chase in the same book. But this one was hilarious. I laughed out loud several times and once, at the flaming bananas around the casket line, I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes. Loosen up folks, enjoy life a little, don't be so critical of everything, you'll live longer.
page turner, because it is so dull November 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have read all of Deville's book, and looked forward to enjoying this one. However I found it to absolutely dreadful, dull, verbouse, and a page turner because he has the same dialog on every page. You want to skip every page, and turn to the last page to see what happens. He could have cut half of the pages and it still would be too long and boring.
The only good part of it is the description of the Creek Club, Locust Valley, and the story of the estates there.
Save your money, do not buy this book, and hope the Deville comes to his senses and writes another good book.
like being stuck in traffic November 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the danger in a sequel: being dragged through endless recounts of past plot and dialogue.
And DeMille has mired this book down in too much of the former. I kept waiting for the damn thing to take off, and after plodding through 245 pages just gave up. DeMille's usual peppy pace was like quicksand.
This is the book DeMille should have never published!
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