The Genius
by Jesse Kellerman
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Read in May, 2008
This book is a bit different. An art dealer is given some art found in boxes left in an apartment where the owner never came back. There are thousands of drawings, ....all connected to each other and creating scenes that turn out to be related to a number of children's deaths. I liked the story somewhat, until the end. The ending seemed somewhat weak; the author himself seemed to imply this in the last chapter.
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When I returned this today, two of the librarians corralled me and wanted to know "if he's as good as his parents." Poor Jesse. I said that he's way better than his mother (they nodded like, well, DUH, that's not hard) and at least as good as his father, if not better. This was a fine mystery with a great historical backstory, and I'd especially recommend it to anyone interested in the art world.
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Read in May, 2008
This is a mulitlayered mystery. A trove of bizarre drawings ends up in the hands of a New York City art dealer, thousands on ink on cheap paper sheets, all numbered and fitting together. But on sheet #1 are the faces of 5 murdered young boys. Murders unsolved for many years. The artist has disappeared. Is he the murderer? And what is his connection to the art dealer and his family?
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Read in May, 2008
I've tried and tried to warm up to either one of the other Kellermans with no success. But with this Kellerman, I hit pay dirt. Jesse Kellerman can flat tell a story. In this one well crafted novel there are about 78 different stories and they are all wonderful. I enjoyed this enormously and now get to go back and read his other two plus look forward, I sure hope, to many more.
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Read in May, 2008
Kellerman is not without talent and this book is ambitiously plotted but ultimately it fell flat for me. The characters are either bitchy or self-centered and therefore hard to like. I felt detached from them and the goings-on when I should have been absorbed and intrigued.
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The Genius was not what I expected. It had a little bit of mystery mixed with a little bit of art. I did like how the author tied together the main character and the person he was searching for.
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Blessedly, he writes with a hand more like his mother's (in the past, her new stuff, not great) rather than his dad's. The characters are well developed and the pace keeps you reading.
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Read in June, 2008
Jesse Kellerman is a son of the novelists Jonathan and Faye Kellerman. The book was pretty slow moving and had a lot of weird sidepieces or flashbacks which I didn't care for.
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Read in May, 2008
Great beginning...great premise...but after the end I found myself wondering what had happened. Maybe this book was a part 1.
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I learned some very interesting things about the Art Scene. My favorite bit of trivia was about the Philidelphia Wireman.
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Read in May, 2008
Started off promising... but there were a few too many stretches in the plot for it to be even remotely believable.
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