Summery:Summer, 1954.
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. And neither is Teddy Daniels.
Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing ...
The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive them insane ...-goodreads.com
Review:
The first time I heard of Shutter Island, was when I saw the previews for the movie. I asked one of my friends to go see it with me, and she replied that she wanted to read the book first. Sadly, I hadn't known that Shutter Island was originally a book! My friend promptly finished the book and we went to see the movie. It was awesome. Afterwords, I picked up the book. I can honestly say that the movie very closely follows the book. The overall feeling of the book (and movie) is dark, creepy, and the nagging urge that things aren't really what they seem. I think I would have rated this book a bit higher, had I read it before the movie. Reading it after, just seemed a bit repetitive. I highly recommend that you read the book before watching the movie, if you plan on doing both.
Cover Art Commentary:
The book pictured above is not the copy I own, which has Leonardo Di Caprio on the cover...I really hate when they stick pictures of the movie on the copy of the book. However, the cover pictured above is dark and haunting, just like the book!
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