Master of the Game
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Kate Blackwell is the symbol of success—a beautiful woman who has parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Now, celebrating her 90th birthday, Kate surveys the family she has manipulated, dominated, and loved: the fair and the grotesque, the mad and the mild, the good and the evil—her winnings in life.
Sidney Sheldon
The late novelist and screenwriter Sidney Sheldon remains one of the world's top bestselling authors, having sold more than 300 million copies of his books. Are You Afraid of the Dark? is his most recent in a long line of huge bestsellers. He is also the only writer to have won an Oscar, a Tony, and an Edgar. The Guinness Book of World Records heralds him as the most translated author in the world.
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Reviews for Master of the Game
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An excellent novel about several generations of the McGregor/Blackwell family who go from completely broke to unimaginably rich. The story begins with a glimpse of the present before stepping back into the past to Scotland in 1850 where Jamie McGregor leaves his family to seek a fortune in diamond prospecting in the Cape Colony (South Africa). He is soon cheated out of what he finds and begins a scheme of revenge which propels him to the top.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Simply amazing. I could not put down the book. Spellbound. It is a masterpiece. Great work by Sidney
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sidney Sheldon, master of story telling, plot twist. What an overwhelming mind intriguing book this is. ???
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I like that this book took off in different directions. There were a few too many characters for my taste.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Well written and Exciting keeps you guessing till the end
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of my favorites. It's a phenomenal I love it. The whole family. The deceit. The twists. The love. The hurt.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brilliant. From start to finish. A whirlwind of characters and events that captivated me as a South African. Wow. Wow. Wow.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A splendid read. I will be following up on more of this author in the future. Definitely a top recommended book of mine.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I read this book so many years ago and yet I remember how much I loved my first Sidney Sheldon book! What I admired most about this great story teller is his detail in telling the story. He did so much research that it was a geography lesson and history woven through each book. This was a long book and it took place in a number of place like South Africa diamond mines and in New York. There was a great deal of injustice being done where generations of families where involved. Sidney Sheldon was so good at putting you in the place with the characters that I found myself not being able to put the book down.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5awesome
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is the best book, i had ever read at the time. I liked reading, after this book. I was intimidated by the length, but it was so flawlessly written, the pace and excitement of the awesome adventure. All throughout the story, I never wanted to stop reading it. I loved it then and I love it now. I have given this book to everyone, I know who didn't like to read. This book has never failed me, with them. They are all avid readers now.
Thank you so much, Sidney Sheldon. You are the "Master Of The Game."
Yay!! - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Poor writing, silly plot.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sidney Sheldon is the master story teller! Its a beautifully woven story of 5 generations with enough twists and turns! kept me hooked!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I happened to chance upon this book discussion and couldn't resist sharing my own experience.I read this book quite a few years back,17 years to be precise, I was in my first year of graduation living in the college boys hostel. It was the time of the very first of our exams - the first semesters. Understandably, we are apprehensive and anxious.The exams stretched over a period of about 15 days. Everyday ( or rather night, since nothing could induce us to take up study books during the day!!!) after having cajoled myself that i have crammed everything seemingly important ( and that whats left is definitely not appearing the next day in the paper), I would take up this novel, switch off all the room lights, open the door and only switch on my bedside small lamp, and start reading for about half an hour or so before lights off!I don't exactly know what it was - the fact that it acted as a great stress buster or that the story itself was riveting or simply the reckless and foolhardy, and therefore immensely appealing, act of reading novel before exam night - but I thoroughly and vastly enjoyed reading this novel.I wouldn't say this is the best novel I have read, but certainly the most enjoyable one ever!!!!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Needless to say, everyone of Sheldon's stories are wonderful, they are dramatic, epic, sexy, and thrilling. This book is no exception, its an intricately woven tale about a corrupt family (corrupt as in completely messed up). Sometimes I randomly start thinking about this book and some of its intense and thrilling scenes, its a memorable book to say the least. Unfortunately, it did get boring at some parts of the book, but its a good read.