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conversations.value: Boston-area novelist the author has written a terrific suspense novel, an impressive follow-up to 2001's Mystic River. Shutter Island is off Massachusetts's coast, an army facility turned hospital for the criminally insane. When a beautiful-and certifiably crazy-patient escapes, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, are called in to investigate. Embroiled in uncertainties and mystery, the two soon learn there's much more at stake than simply finding one missing woman. Stechschulte gives a stirring performance. His portrayal of Daniels is convincing, and he reads the role with equal parts poignancy and toughness. Stechschulte is particularly adept at reading dialogue. For example, one stormy night at the hospital, Teddy and Chuck are playing cards with two of the hospital's workers. The quartet banters, calling each other's bluffs and having a grand old time, yet tones of racism underlie the conversation. Stechschulte handles the dialogue well, distinguishing between each voice and varying the pace between rapid back-and-forth and thoughtful, drawn out remarks.<BR>Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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conversations.value: Boston-area novelist the author has written a terrific suspense novel, an impressive follow-up to 2001's Mystic River. Shutter Island is off Massachusetts's coast, an army facility turned hospital for the criminally insane. When a beautiful-and certifiably crazy-patient escapes, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, are called in to investigate. Embroiled in uncertainties and mystery, the two soon learn there's much more at stake than simply finding one missing woman. Stechschulte gives a stirring performance. His portrayal of Daniels is convincing, and he reads the role with equal parts poignancy and toughness. Stechschulte is particularly adept at reading dialogue. For example, one stormy night at the hospital, Teddy and Chuck are playing cards with two of the hospital's workers. The quartet banters, calling each other's bluffs and having a grand old time, yet tones of racism underlie the conversation. Stechschulte handles the dialogue well, distinguishing between each voice and varying the pace between rapid back-and-forth and thoughtful, drawn out remarks.
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conversations.value: Shutter Island: In 1954, widowerS.\nMarshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule go on a ferry boat to Shutter Island, the home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient, Rachel Solando (who was incarcerated for drowning her three children).\nShe has escaped the hospital and apparently the desolate island, despite being kept in a locked cell under constant supervision.\nIn Rachel\'s room, Teddy and Chuck discover a code that Teddy breaks.\nHe tells Chuck that he believes the code points to a 67th patient, when records show only 66.\nTeddy also reveals that he wants to avenge the death of his wife Dolores, who was murdered two years prior by a man called Andrew Laeddis, who he believes is an inmate in Ashecliffe Hospital.\nThe novel is interspersed with graphic descriptions of World War II and Dachau which Teddy helped to liberate.\nAfter Hurricane Carol hits the island, Teddy and Chuck investigate Ward C, where Teddy believes government experiments with psychotropic drugs are being conducted.\nWhile separated from Chuck for a short while in Ward C, Teddy meets a patient called George Noyce, who tells him that everything is an elaborate game designed for him, and that Chuck is not to be trusted.\nAs Teddy and Chuck return to the main hospital area, they are separated.\nTeddy discovers a woman (in a sea cave he tried to take refuge in) who says she is the real Rachel Solando.\nShe tells him she was actually a psychiatrist at Ashecliffe, and when she discovered the illegal experiments being run by them, she was incarcerated as a patient.\nShe escaped and has been hiding in different places on the island.\nShe warns him about the other residents of the island, telling him to take care with the food, medication and cigarettes, which have been laced with psychotropic drugs.\nWhen Teddy returns to the hospital, he can\'t find Chuck and is told he had no partner.\nHe escapes and tries to rescue Chuck at the lighthouse where he believes the experiments take place.\nHe reaches the top of the lighthouse and finds only hospital administrator dr Cawley seated at a desk.\nCawley tells Teddy that he himself is in fact Andrew Laeddis (an anagram of Edward Daniels) and that he has been a patient at Shutter Island for two years for murdering his wife, Dolores Chanal (an anagram of Rachel Solando), after she murdered their three children.\nAndrew/Teddy refuses to believe this and takes extreme measures to disprove it, grabbing what he thinks is his gun and tries to shoot dr Cawley; but the weapon is a toy water pistol.\nChuck then enters, revealing that he is actually Andrew\'s psychiatrist, dr Lester Sheehan.\nHe is told that dr Cawley and Chuck/Sheehan have devised this treatment to allow him to live out his elaborate fantasy, in order to confront the truth, or else undergo a radical lobotomy treatment.\nTeddy/Andrew finally realizes that he killed his wife and his service as a US Marshal was a long time ago.\nThe ending of the novel is unclear as to which "reality" is true: the recovery or the investigation.\nIt is also unclear whether Teddy has truly regressed, or if he wishes to "die" (at the very least, lose his ability for conscious thought, through lobotomy) in order to avoid living with the knowledge that his wife murdered their children and he is her murderer.
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conversations.value: \nMarshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule go on a ferry boat to Shutter Island, the home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient, Rachel Solando (who was incarcerated for drowning her three children).\nShe has escaped the hospital and apparently the desolate island, despite being kept in a locked cell under constant supervision.\nIn Rachel\'s room, Teddy and Chuck discover a code that Teddy breaks.\nHe tells Chuck that he believes the code points to a 67th patient, when records show only 66.\nTeddy also reveals that he wants to avenge the death of his wife Dolores, who was murdered two years prior by a man called Andrew Laeddis, who he believes is an inmate in Ashecliffe Hospital.\nThe novel is interspersed with graphic descriptions of World War II and Dachau which Teddy helped to liberate.\nAfter Hurricane Carol hits the island, Teddy and Chuck investigate Ward C, where Teddy believes government experiments with psychotropic drugs are being conducted.\nWhile separated from Chuck for a short while in Ward C, Teddy meets a patient called George Noyce, who tells him that everything is an elaborate game designed for him, and that Chuck is not to be trusted.\nAs Teddy and Chuck return to the main hospital area, they are separated.\nTeddy discovers a woman (in a sea cave he tried to take refuge in) who says she is the real Rachel Solando.\nShe tells him she was actually a psychiatrist at Ashecliffe, and when she discovered the illegal experiments being run by them, she was incarcerated as a patient.\nShe escaped and has been hiding in different places on the island.\nShe warns him about the other residents of the island, telling him to take care with the food, medication and cigarettes, which have been laced with psychotropic drugs.\nWhen Teddy returns to the hospital, he can\'t find Chuck and is told he had no partner.\nHe escapes and tries to rescue Chuck at the lighthouse where he believes the experiments take place.\nHe reaches the top of the lighthouse and finds only hospital administrator dr Cawley seated at a desk.\nCawley tells Teddy that he himself is in fact Andrew Laeddis (an anagram of Edward Daniels) and that he has been a patient at Shutter Island for two years for murdering his wife, Dolores Chanal (an anagram of Rachel Solando), after she murdered their three children.\nAndrew/Teddy refuses to believe this and takes extreme measures to disprove it, grabbing what he thinks is his gun and tries to shoot dr Cawley; but the weapon is a toy water pistol.\nChuck then enters, revealing that he is actually Andrew\'s psychiatrist, dr Lester Sheehan.\nHe is told that dr Cawley and Chuck/Sheehan have devised this treatment to allow him to live out his elaborate fantasy, in order to confront the truth, or else undergo a radical lobotomy treatment.\nTeddy/Andrew finally realizes that he killed his wife and his service as a US Marshal was a long time ago.\nThe ending of the novel is unclear as to which "reality" is true: the recovery or the investigation.\nIt is also unclear whether Teddy has truly regressed, or if he wishes to "die" (at the very least, lose his ability for conscious thought, through lobotomy) in order to avoid living with the knowledge that his wife murdered their children and he is her murderer.
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conversations.value: Shutter Island: In 1954, widowerS.\nMarshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule go on a ferry boat to Shutter Island, the home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient, Rachel Solando (who was incarcerated for drowning her three children).\nShe has escaped the hospital and apparently the desolate island, despite being kept in a locked cell under constant supervision.\nIn Rachel\'s room, Teddy and Chuck discover a code that Teddy breaks.\nHe tells Chuck that he believes the code points to a 67th patient, when records show only 66.\nTeddy also reveals that he wants to avenge the death of his wife Dolores, who was murdered two years prior by a man called Andrew Laeddis, who he believes is an inmate in Ashecliffe Hospital.\nThe novel is interspersed with graphic descriptions of World War II and Dachau which Teddy helped to liberate.\nAfter Hurricane Carol hits the island, Teddy and Chuck investigate Ward C, where Teddy believes government experiments with psychotropic drugs are being conducted.\nWhile separated from Chuck for a short while in Ward C, Teddy meets a patient called George Noyce, who tells him that everything is an elaborate game designed for him, and that Chuck is not to be trusted.\nAs Teddy and Chuck return to the main hospital area, they are separated.\nTeddy discovers a woman (in a sea cave he tried to take refuge in) who says she is the real Rachel Solando.\nShe tells him she was actually a psychiatrist at Ashecliffe, and when she discovered the illegal experiments being run by them, she was incarcerated as a patient.\nShe escaped and has been hiding in different places on the island.\nShe warns him about the other residents of the island, telling him to take care with the food, medication and cigarettes, which have been laced with psychotropic drugs.\nWhen Teddy returns to the hospital, he can\'t find Chuck and is told he had no partner.\nHe escapes and tries to rescue Chuck at the lighthouse where he believes the experiments take place.\nHe reaches the top of the lighthouse and finds only hospital administrator dr Cawley seated at a desk.\nCawley tells Teddy that he himself is in fact Andrew Laeddis (an anagram of Edward Daniels) and that he has been a patient at Shutter Island for two years for murdering his wife, Dolores Chanal (an anagram of Rachel Solando), after she murdered their three children.\nAndrew/Teddy refuses to believe this and takes extreme measures to disprove it, grabbing what he thinks is his gun and tries to shoot dr Cawley; but the weapon is a toy water pistol.\nChuck then enters, revealing that he is actually Andrew\'s psychiatrist, dr Lester Sheehan.\nHe is told that dr Cawley and Chuck/Sheehan have devised this treatment to allow him to live out his elaborate fantasy, in order to confront the truth, or else undergo a radical lobotomy treatment.\nTeddy/Andrew finally realizes that he killed his wife and his service as a US Marshal was a long time ago.\nThe ending of the novel is unclear as to which "reality" is true: the recovery or the investigation.\nIt is also unclear whether Teddy has truly regressed, or if he wishes to "die" (at the very least, lose his ability for conscious thought, through lobotomy) in order to avoid living with the knowledge that his wife murdered their children and he is her murderer.
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  McPherson paused in front of the hospital, one foot on the first step. He seemed baffled. He looked off for a moment at the curve of orange wall and then said, "Well, I guess you can ask him. He should be out of his meeting by now."
  They went up the stairs and in through a marble foyer, the ceiling arching into a coffered dome above them. A gate buzzed open as they approached it, and they passed on into a large anteroom where an orderly sat at a desk to their right and another across from him to their left and beyond lay a long corridor behind the confines of another gate. They produced their badges again to the orderly by the upper staircase and McPherson signed their three names to a clipboard as the orderly checked their badges and IDs and handed them back. Behind the orderly was a cage, and Teddy could see a man in there wearing a uniform similar to the warden's, keys hanging from their rings on a wall behind him.
  They climbed to the second floor and turned into a corridor that smelled of wood soap, the oak floor gleaming underfoot and bathed in a white light from the large window at the far end.
  They had stopped outside a set of double doors. A brass plate affixed in the center of the right door read CHIEF OF STAFF, DR. J. CAWLEY.
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conversations.value: Two canisters of coffee sat up on a card table along with stacks of paper cups and a few bottles of milk. A guard sat at another card table at the base of the staircase, looking at them, smiling.
  Teddy looked over at him even as the old sounds were replaced by new ones, the whole place a kind of sonic orgy, yanking the ears in every direction.
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conversations.value: Rats were the most voluminous of our animal life. They scrabbled in the brush, formed lines along the shore at night, clambered over wet rock. Some were the size of flounder. In the years following those four strange days of late summer 1954, I took to studying the rats from a cut in the hill overlooking the northern shore. I was fascinated to discover that some of the rats would try to swim for Paddock Island, little more than a rock in a cupful of sand that remained submerged twenty-two hours out of every day. When it appeared for that hour or two as the current reached its lowest ebb, sometimes they'd swim for it, these rats, never more than a dozen or so and always driven back by the riptide.
  I say always, but no. I saw one make it. Once. The night of the harvest moon in October '56. I saw its black moccasin of a body dart across the sand.
  Or so I think. Emily, whom I met on the island, will say, "Lester, you couldn't have. It was too far away."
  And yet I know what I saw. One fat moccasin darting across the sand, sand that was pearl gray and already beginning to drown again as the current returned to swallow Paddock Island, swallow that rat, I assume, for I never saw it swim back.
  But in that moment, as I watched it scurry up the shore (and I did, I saw it, distances be damned), I thought of Teddy. I thought of Teddy and his poor dead wife, Dolores Chanal, and those twin terrors, Rachel Solando and Andrew Laeddis, the havoc they wreaked on us all. I thought that if Teddy were sitting with me, he would have seen that rat too. He would have.