Two US Marshals walk into a loony bin... I've never seen the movie, but I knewish the plot. Even so, I thought this was very cool. Kind of slow when it starts out, but the pace picks up midway through, and the ending is...oh, yeah.If you somehow don't know, Shutter Island is about a man who is inwardly dealing with the death of his wife, while on assignment as a US Marshal to find out what happened to a patient who has gone missing from an asylum for the criminally insane. At first, it looks li...

I probably belong to the minority who knew neither the book nor the Scorsese film adaptation with Leonardo DiCaprio, because I was envied several times in my status messages for being able to enjoy the story for the first time. What should I write? Obviously you all know the story of U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, who is supposed to solve a case in a psychiatric clinic on the island off Boston.The confusing plot that builds up over the four days on the island, only to be resolved in a gigantic plot...

Gdybym najpierw nie widziała filmu, dałabym pewnie pięć gwiazdek

It's been two months since I've read this book, but I still can't stop thinking about it. In my opinion, it was absolutely perfect. I didn't feel bored for even a single second. The story was fast paced, but not too fast - it had just the right pace.I fell in love with the characters pretty much right away. I'm not even exactly sure why, all of them just seemed interesting in their own way. Enough of their backstory was given for me to become attached to them and I would love to have even more m...

Muy buen libro. Lástima que en su parte final decaiga y sea tan previsible. No me ha dejado un buen sabor de boca.
A pesar de esto, me ha gustado la localización y consigue meterte de lleno en la historia.

این دیگه چی بود!

اول فیلمش رو دیدم و گفتم کافی نیست. با اینکه محشر بود ولی خیلی ترغیب شدم کتابشو بخونم. برای کتاب هم باید بگم اول ممنون از مقدمه، مقدمه نبود من خیلی چیزا رو نمی‌فهمیدم. شخصیت‌پردازی‌های عالی، پایان‌بندی فوق‌العاده، دیالوگا. همش داشتم فکر می‌کردم این داستان قراره چطور تموم شه. به‌نظرم پایان‌بندی براش خیلی سخته. که دیدم چقد هنرمندانه و استادانه تمومش کرد. آخ که چقد عالی بود همه‌چیش.

Ashecliffe Hospital sat on the central plain of the island's northwestern side. Sat begnignly, I might add. It looked nothing like a hospital for the criminally insane and even less like the military barracks it had been before that. Its appearance reminded most of us, in point of fact, of a boarding school. Teddy and Chuck are called out to the island to try and find out what happened to one of the inmates. She just escaped. There really isn't a way she could escape but there you have it. Th...

...he hated how fucked up and obscene the world and everything in it had become.Well... fuck. I decided to wait for at least one day before writing this review because I needed time to process this book. But even though more than 24 hours passed, I still haven't processed it even a bit. Not in a long time did I read a book that grabbed me as Shutter Island did. When I was reading this book, and I had to put it down to do some other stuff, it followed me everywhere. When I wasn't reading it, I su...

I have read Mystic River, and this is no Mystic River. It is an interesting novel with a fun twist that I found unbelievable. Many think more of it than I did. I have not seen the film, so can offer no opinion on whether it is better or worse, faithful to the book or not. IMHO, it is LeHane light. feel free to skip it.


image, based on the film, drawn from the site Collider

The night I finished this, my mind was left reeling from it for a couple of hours and the next day I was unable to get it out of my head. Shutter Island is a departure from the Kenzie/Gennaro series andit's one of those novels that will certainly leave you pondering the whole story once you're finished it.The less you know about the story, the better. Suffice it to say, this is an excellent read and there are very few novels I have read that made my head buzz for hours after. Don't miss this, re...