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Jul 20, 2017zipread rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
When you set out to read this book you are making a commitment: Gate House is over six hundred pages long. The plot is slow: sot of literary molasses. Every twenty or fifty pages or so I found myself asking "Why am I still reading this book?" Maybe you'll find the answer for yourself. On the whole I found this DeMille disappointingly devoid of any kind of action until you get to the last few pages where there is a complete turn-around. My problem derives from the fact that I'd been reading DeMilles's John Corey novels. They're full of action: people being blown up, that sort of thing. In Gate House, DeMille still gives you droll, self deprecation, sarcasm: all those things for which we've come to love DeM.