the other side of midnight by sidney sheldon

If you have, read this one (it was my first and favorite). Here's the blurb: An innocent American girl becomes a bewildered pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal.Ĭheck him out if you haven't. No fat-one of the reasons his books or so lean and tough to put down. At the end of the process, he would then cut away as much as eighty percent of the novel. One interesting fact I read somewhere about him: he never sat down at a typewriter to write but instead dictated to his secretary. That above paragraph in itself should be enough to get you to read this work if you've never picked up a Sheldon book before. He wrote about fifteen of them, becoming the sixth best selling writer of all time, before passing away a couple years ago. Only at fifty-that's right, the big five-oh-he began writing novels. His TV works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70) and Hart to Hart (1979–84). Sheldon was an Academy Award-winning writer. But Dan, brother, let's keep things real: you've written for or five books. Well, maybe he did with the da Vinci Code (commercially speaking).

He said he read it, thought it was great, and thought he could do better. His writing is so clean and simplistic, I don't understand why more authors don't imitate his style.Īctually, I should modify that by saying Dan Brown-da Vinci man himself-got his writing bug after reading a Sheldon book-The Doomsday Conspiracy, I believe. I think I had been putting it off for a while because it had a cover from the seventies and looked like pseudo romance.Īnyway, I read it in one or two sittings! I'd never read an author as breezy (and I say this is a very good way), as Sheldon. One night I grabbed this from the bookshelf, not knowing what to expect. When I was in university, whenever I went home to visit, I'd return with a big bag of books my mom had bought and read.

The other side of midnight by sidney sheldon