Dominance

Aug 16, 2011 Teresa Lukey rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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4.5 STARS

I had a hell of a time putting this one down once I started reading it, especially once I got past the halfway point.

The concept of unraveling a literary mystery was initially an intimidating premise for me because I am not one for analyzing literature. I find mathematics much more predictable and easier to understand.

Anyone who likes putting a puzzle will love this mysterious story. This story alternates between a group of nine handpicked literature majors who are in a class being taug...more

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Jul 03, 2011 Julie Smith (Knitting and Sundries) rated it 5 of 5 stars

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In 1994, nine Honors Literature students were chosen to attend the class "Unraveling a Literary Mystery" at Jasper College. The class was to be distance-taught by Dr. Richard Aldiss from his home at the Rock Mountain Correctional Facility, where he is serving time for the 1982 murders of two female Dumant University graduate students. There was no pre-published syllabus, and no one, outside of Aldiss himself, knows wh...more

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Jan 16, 2013 Miramira Endevall rated it 3 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The protagonist: NOT the hero in Iowa, NOT particularly intelligent, NOT a feminist character. In fact, she's dumb, easily manipulated, and would never have been given a teaching job in an highschool AP lit class let alone at Harvard. And WHY on earth would she continue to read and teach and obsess over books that were written by a serial killing family that almost killed her? And if she wanted to find the third manuscript for herself, why would she show the "lost page" to an entire freshman lit...more The protagonist: NOT the hero in Iowa, NOT particularly intelligent, NOT a feminist character. In fact, she's dumb, easily manipulated, and would never have been given a teaching job in an highschool AP lit class let alone at Harvard. And WHY on earth would she continue to read and teach and obsess over books that were written by a serial killing family that almost killed her? And if she wanted to find the third manuscript for herself, why would she show the "lost page" to an entire freshman lit class? And why was she using TRANSPARENCY PAPER in 2011? Answer: She's a dumb broad who slept her way to the top.

The Protocol: interesting idea, not well thought-out or well executed; there are too many contradictions. Yes, a bunch of students get together to act out scenes from their two favorite books. How, praytell, is that any more innately dangerous than civil war re-enactments or a ren faire? That period of history saw more brutal bloodshed than any other time on American soil, yet most people who re-enact battles do have the good sense to not use live ammunition and don't stab each other with bayonets. Re-enacting books (even murder mysteries) is not dangerous. With as much hype as The Protocol was given in the fist three quarters of the book, especially with all the references to how dangerous it is, I expected something more, well, dangerous. And speaking of the protagonist, she states at one point that although she initially failed at playing The Protocol, she eventually became very good. Here's the problem with that statement: she only played ONE TIME before going to Iowa, where she confronted a serial killer and nearly died. In order for her to become really good, she would have had to return from this horrifically traumatic experience and CONTINUE PLAYING The Protocol, which has a stated goal of taking the players inside the mind of Paul Fallows, whom she now knows to have been a serial killer. I reiterate that she's an idiot, and I add that she's a complete tool.

The night class: interesting idea, but *really* not well thought out or well executed. How many university classes meet for five weeks for only one hour per week?

The Coil and The Golden Silence: The puzzles in them aside, they sound like boring, post-modern tripe. Other than the fact that they were written by a serial killer who was hoping to be found and punished, the books are not interesting in themselves, and I fail to see why people would obsess over them.

Paul Fallows: Interesting idea, better executed than the other interesting ideas in this book. The idea that the mother "turned" her son (probably by abusing him into muteness and then committing him to a psych ward when he was 8 or 9) and then used him to carry on the family business of brutally murdering young women is very twisted. However, the setup for their demise was not well executed and felt like a non sequiter. What is intriguing is that because we only have Lydia's word on the matter, we don't know how large a part she and Charlie played in the father's earlier murders, or if he did die of a blood clot after all. The glaring problem with all of this was that there were supposedly FIFTY volumes of encyclopedia of women that had been killed. Given that the m.o. of the killers was to cover the bodies in books, I have a hard time buying that from 1972 to 1994, only two bodies were ever found.

Richard Aldiss: A sociopath who gets off on watching other people suffer.

Matthew Owen: I figured out that he was the killer as soon as he stated that he knew the members of the night class from the previous funeral of Daniel Hayden.

The writing: Awkward and difficult to follow. Sample sentence: "It had been offered at night because this was the only viable time, the only hour when the warden would allow the murderer free to teach." Less awkward without shifting tenses: "It had been offered at night because that was the only viable time, the only hour that the warden would allow the murderer to teach." Just sayin', it could use more editing.

My three-star rating: Because despite its flaws, it was interesting. I just wish that the author had done better work with his good ideas.(less)

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Jan 01, 2012 Lisa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Dominance got my attention in the very first pages and hung on to it right to the end. It’s a book about a book with an author who may not even exist. It’s about the night class, taken a decade ago, and how it changed the lives of the students who took it. It’s about The Procedure, and the danger it represents. And it’s about a present-day murder and how it may change everything they thought they learned in the night class.

Back in 1994, tiny Jasper College offered a very special night class. It...more Dominance got my attention in the very first pages and hung on to it right to the end. It’s a book about a book with an author who may not even exist. It’s about the night class, taken a decade ago, and how it changed the lives of the students who took it. It’s about The Procedure, and the danger it represents. And it’s about a present-day murder and how it may change everything they thought they learned in the night class.

Back in 1994, tiny Jasper College offered a very special night class. It was taught by Richard Aldiss, a literary genius, and he would be teaching from his prison cell: Aldiss had been convicted of the brutal murders of two female graduate students at his former university. He is also an expert on author Paul Fallows, a recluse whose identity has never really been established. Aldiss challenges his students to discover Fallows’ identity and hints that in the process, they will uncover the real murderer.

In the present day, they have a new murder to solve: the death of a night classmate brings the students back to Jasper College. Alex Shipley, the star of the night class, has been asked to work with the local police — she solved the previous mystery and has at least some relationship with the genius professor. The former students congregate at the home of aged Dean Fisk for the funeral, while Alex and the police hunt for a murderer — and wonder if the night class turned one loose.

The pacing is what really draws you into the story. Writer Will Lavender doles out little nuggets of information, hints and tidbits that aren’t quite enough to really tell you what’s going on, but certainly make you keep reading. What is the Procedure, exactly? What happened in Iowa? What is the name of the man in the dark coat? What did Alex uncover in the night class?

The story has a bit of a locked-room feel to it, with all the students/suspects staying in the Dean’s home. That’s a bit of a stretch, but not completely improbable. Alex has to worry about whether there’s a murderer in the next room, plus she gets to wonder what’s going on amongst her old classmates while she is off working with the police or talking to her former professor. The story brings out Alex’s insecurities about what she discovered in the night class, about her position at Harvard, and the way she relates to her former professor and fellow students.

Dominance is a story full of juicy twists and turns. There are secrets, lies and unexpected revelations. You get enough information to keep you involved in the story, but not enough to know what it all means. I was curious at the start and every bit of revealed information fed the fires a little further. Definitely an intriguing read!(less)

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Aug 25, 2011 Gina Williams rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, thriller

Dr. Richard Aldiss, accused of killing two female graduate students during his tenure of teaching at Dumant University, is a current inmate of Rock Mountain correctional facility and serving consecutive life sentences. He has also been announced as the instructor for a late night class at Jasper College, LIT 424: Unraveling a Literary Mystery. Broadcast via satellite TV and limited to only nine of the top literary undergraduate students. The year is 1994.

Before we even get to meet the students w...more Dr. Richard Aldiss, accused of killing two female graduate students during his tenure of teaching at Dumant University, is a current inmate of Rock Mountain correctional facility and serving consecutive life sentences. He has also been announced as the instructor for a late night class at Jasper College, LIT 424: Unraveling a Literary Mystery. Broadcast via satellite TV and limited to only nine of the top literary undergraduate students. The year is 1994.

Before we even get to meet the students we jump to the present day and meet Dr. Alexander Shipley, now a professor and former student of the class. She's come to question a gentleman about a recent murder and it isn't until the end of the scene we learn it is Aldiss.

From the get go, Lavender doesn't enjoy revealing anything in an easy manner, rather he teases and then pulls the curtain back with a flourish. I understand he is trying to build tension and create a heightened sense of pacing, but I found it off-putting in his liberal use of 'aha' moments.

Jumping back and forth from 1994 to the present it is fairly easy to follow the main story. The previous night class students are being killed, similar in fashion to the Dumant deaths, of which Aldiss had been cleared.

There are a lot of unanswered questions which dangle like a torn spiderweb fluttering in the breeze as the story progresses, one of which wasn't answered until halfway through the book but gets a lot of references: what is the Procedure?

Once that is explained the book takes on a more menacing feel in that you don't know if those around you are playing a scripted game, or following a maniac's deceitful plan. As the reader you're left to follow Alex in her search for the truth, both in the past and present, as she searches for clues and a missing manuscript from a reclusive author, Paul Fallows.

Fallows is a literary iconic hero after publishing only two books and remaining far from public scrutiny in his personal life. Students have turned his books into a sort of cult and his work is continually examined, argued about, and discussed as to its symbolic meanings.

Not something I would recommend as I was never really clear as to why there was such a hold over the students in the beginning, except for their need to win. Arbitrary prizes that only a select few may ever recognize or acknowledge wasn't a high enough motive in my mind, but then again I'm not a graduate literature student either.

Although I did manage to figure out the who-dunnit, and wasn't at all surprised about the mystery author, by the end I was just ready to go read something else. Quite possibly the big puzzle promised on the flap wasn't as puzzling as I had hoped.(less)

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Aug 16, 2011 Tony rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: thrillers

Lavender, Will. DOMINANCE. (2011). **.
This is a strange book. It might be termed a biblio-mystery or a biblio-thriller. It takes deconstruction of a novel to its ultimate limit. If you took “Silence of the Lambs,” “Ten Little Indians,” and “Psycho” and put them into a bag and mixed them all up, you might arrive at this novel – the second from this author. The action is divided into two time periods: fifteen-years ago, and the present day. The tale is narrated by Alex, currently a professor at H...more Lavender, Will. DOMINANCE. (2011). **.
This is a strange book. It might be termed a biblio-mystery or a biblio-thriller. It takes deconstruction of a novel to its ultimate limit. If you took “Silence of the Lambs,” “Ten Little Indians,” and “Psycho” and put them into a bag and mixed them all up, you might arrive at this novel – the second from this author. The action is divided into two time periods: fifteen-years ago, and the present day. The tale is narrated by Alex, currently a professor at Harvard, but one of the participants in a fateful course given in the past by one of her alma mater’s most famous professors. She was one of nine honor students invited to attend a seminar given by Professor Aldiss, a brilliant scholar and an expert on the novels of Paul Fallows, a writer who had his roots in Iowa, but had never been seen or interviewed by the academic society or critics. Aldiss was giving his seminar on Fallows from prison via closed circuit TV hook-ups. He had been convicted of killing two young girls – college students – and then arranging their bodies in a ritual manner. During this seminar, Alex became convinced that Aldiss was innocent, and did all she could to find evidence that he was not a murderer. She was successful, but now Aldiss was back at the college in Vermont and the nine students were assembled to attend a memorial of one of their classmates. Soon, the students were being murdered, one-by-one, in a manner similar to the first two girls. The driving force was a program called “The Procedure,” where the students were encouraged to enter the novels of Fallows and assume roles of his characters. Soon, the students – actually, any participant in this game – lost touch with reality and became the characters from the novels. It is remarkably confusing as you progress through this novel. The framework of a story is certainly there, but there is no underlying reason for any of it to happen. It’s just what came out of that mixed bag of successful novels that the author came up with. What one ends up with is a teen thriller like those movies where a group of girls go off to a cabin in the woods for an adventure and find that they are threatened by some unknown evil force. This is obviously not my cup of tea.
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Aug 01, 2011 Alla rated it 4 of 5 stars

“Dominance” by Will Lavender follows the alumnis of a former night class taught by jailed professor Richard Aldiss—formerly convicted of murdering two female students, and in 1994 teaching a class dedicated to discovering the identity of enigmatic author Fallows. The book’s premise alternates between the class of 1994, and present day when one of the grads of the class is murdered and Richard Aldiss tells the book’s protagonist, Alex Shipley—another grad of that infamous night class, that the mu...more

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Jul 31, 2011 Cheryl rated it 5 of 5 stars

The year is 1994.

Jasper College is about to embark on a new course. It is titled “Unraveling a Literary Mystery” The class will be talk via television by convicted murderer, Dr. Richard Aldiss. Dr. Aldiss’s inspiration was recluse author, Paul Fallows. Followers of Fallows’s work would play a game called “The Procedure”. You were special if you were invited to play. The rules of the game are simple…Try and uncover the true identity of Mr. Fallows through his work. If you do than you are in the...more

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Jul 12, 2011 Tammy Dotts rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, mystery

In 1994, nine English majors met for a night class at Jasper College. What made the night class special was its professor: Richard Aldiss, a convicted murderer. The nine students are given the task of discovering the identity of reclusive, renowned author Paul Fallows.

Years later, after the class resulted in Aldiss’ acquittal and the revelation of Fallows’ identity, the students reunite at a funeral. One of their classmates was murdered in an eerie imitation of the crimes of which Aldiss was acc...more In 1994, nine English majors met for a night class at Jasper College. What made the night class special was its professor: Richard Aldiss, a convicted murderer. The nine students are given the task of discovering the identity of reclusive, renowned author Paul Fallows.

Years later, after the class resulted in Aldiss’ acquittal and the revelation of Fallows’ identity, the students reunite at a funeral. One of their classmates was murdered in an eerie imitation of the crimes of which Aldiss was accused.

Dominance by Will Lavender keeps both timelines in the air smoothly by focusing on Alex Shipley. In 1994, she’s the student responsible for solving the 1994 mysteries. In present day, she’s a Harvard professor. The reputation from her student days lead the police and Jasper officials to ask her to help solve the current crime.

That should be the signal that Dominance is not a piece of literature, that it’s nothing more than a Lifetime movie in book form. How Lavender juggles the two stories, however, makes it a little more than that, requiring a little more from readers expecting a James-Patterson-esque mystery to leave behind on the airplane or forget after reading. The final twist of Dominance makes it a novel readers won’t soon forget.

In 1994, the students don’t know what’s about to happen to them. In the present, they’ve all lived through it and don’t need to discuss it in detail. Lavender cleverly avoids exposition traps by doling out information almost on a need-to-know basis.

For example, the night class introduces the students to a game known as the Procedure. They refer to it in the present day setting as well. The rules of the game or how the students are involved remain unclear for a good while. Lavender explains it at exactly the right time, when readers are just about to give up caring about the game out of frustration. Granted, the game is odd and it’s hard to picture anyone taking it as seriously as its proponents, but, at the same time, it’s popular on college campuses where young adults may be more indulgent. That is, it’s popular on Lavender’s fictional campuses, although it’s not far fetched to see it catching on in reality.

The biggest problem with the game is its dependence on Fallows. Although the author is a central part of the mysteries, Lavender doesn’t do much to establish why he carries such importance in modern literature and why his works would captivate students so.

Aside from Alex and Aldiss (who although innocent of murder seems capable of everything else and more of which he’s accused), many of the characters blend into each other. The grieving widow, herself a former member of the class, appears on scene only to cry and serve as a brief red herring. That’s not a spoiler; it’s evident she’s never really a suspect. Another classmate appears to serve only as a sexual diversion. Alex’s former boyfriend is a little more fleshed out, but not fully enough to prevent some contradictions. Oddly, the minor character who does stand out is Daniel Hayden, one of the students. Hayden dies between 1994 and the current story, but his behavior in 1994 makes him someone Lavender should used as an example for how to create the remaining characters.

These flaws don’t matter all that much. Dominance remains an entertaining and suspenseful read. Lavender builds tension, increasing the stakes as the novel progresses. Readers can’t sit back and wait for the answers to the novel’s central mysteries to be handed to them. As Alex investigates each time’s mystery, every piece of information leads to the next, with clues intertwining across time. Sometimes the characters miss obvious connections, but there’s plenty for the reader to have to work to figure out. Much like Aldiss points his students in the right direction (or occasional wrong direction) and leaves it to them to identify and answer the correct question, Dominance expects its readers to do the same.

Not all answers readers come up with turn out to be correct. And the last pages of Dominance have the potential to cast the previous pages in a new light. A re-read promises a new experience.

Dominance is an above-average summer read. Pages will turn quickly.(less)

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Jul 11, 2011 Richard Gazala rated it 3 of 5 stars

Who is Paul Fallows? He's an American literary giant, the author of a pair of novels scoured in college English departments around the country for deep, eternal truths about the human condition. For decades, brilliant English literature students at elite universities across the nation participate in a twisted game called the Procedure in attempting to discover the recondite Fallow's long-obscured true identity. The object of the game is to win, of course. The best players find winning the game c...more Who is Paul Fallows? He's an American literary giant, the author of a pair of novels scoured in college English departments around the country for deep, eternal truths about the human condition. For decades, brilliant English literature students at elite universities across the nation participate in a twisted game called the Procedure in attempting to discover the recondite Fallow's long-obscured true identity. The object of the game is to win, of course. The best players find winning the game comes not so much from trying to uncover who is Fallows, but why is Fallows? And the cost of victory may well prove fatal.

"Dominance" is Will Lavender's second novel, and it's a good book. It's billed as a thriller, but the majority of it reads more like a cozy literary mystery sporadically spattered with murders of varyingly violent description. The story lurches back and forth in time between events set in the present-day and 1994. Though Lavender handles the flashback aspect of his tale reasonably well, it can still make for a disconcerting read, and adds unnecessary confusion to a fairly straightforward murder mystery. Lavender writes well -- despite the recurrent flashbacks the plot progresses at a decent clip, his dialogue is generally realistic, and he's very good at setting tone, mood and atmosphere.

Readers will note obvious correlations linking "Dominance" to popular works preceding it. The relationship between Lavender's main characters, Harvard professor Alex Shipley and her (unjustly?) imprisoned former professor Richard Aldiss, is heavily influenced by the similar contretemps between Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling in Thomas Harris' 1988 novel, "The Silence of the Lambs." Much of the present-day plot happens in a creepy old house on a fictional college campus, where seven of Aldiss' former students gather to mourn the death of a recently murdered classmate only to each find him- or herself as much prey as suspect while freshly killed corpses pile up. It's reminiscent of any number of locked room murder mysteries, and sprinkled too with elements from Shirley Jackson's 1959 horror novel "The Haunting of Hill House," and Stephen King's 2002 television miniseries "Rose Red" (which itself owes homage to Jackson's novel).

It's an intelligent and worthwhile read, but readers with an appetite for an action-packed serial killer thriller won't be sated by "Dominance."(less)

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Jul 06, 2011 Katie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads

"Dominance" is a smartly crafted murder mystery that I seriously couldn't put down after the first few pages.

I loved that Will Lavender took the time to make an intelligent and not completely simple murder mystery. There were twists and turns and surprises (and some not too big surprises).

"Dominance" follows a literature professor who was able to solve a murder back in 1994 when she was a student, through a class conducted by the supposed murderer. Now, she has been called back into action due t...more

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Jul 03, 2011 Stephanie D. rated it 3 of 5 stars

When I first read the summary of Dominance by Will Lavender, I immediately wanted it. A literary mystery, phantom authors, novels as riddles – what could be more exciting?

Unfortunately, Dominance fell short of its unique premise. I’m not sure if my expectations were too high but I think Dominance had all the elements to make it a great thriller yet for a multitude of reasons detailed below, it didn’t quite get there.

The progression of the narrative was well done – Lavender kept the suspense me...more When I first read the summary of Dominance by Will Lavender, I immediately wanted it. A literary mystery, phantom authors, novels as riddles – what could be more exciting?

Unfortunately, Dominance fell short of its unique premise. I’m not sure if my expectations were too high but I think Dominance had all the elements to make it a great thriller yet for a multitude of reasons detailed below, it didn’t quite get there.

The progression of the narrative was well done – Lavender kept the suspense meter amped up as the book alternated between 1994 and the present. Little by little we learn how Alex proved Richard Aldiss’s innocence in 1994, as we simultaneously learn how she uncovers the murderer’s identity in the present. This technique hooked me into the dual storylines and kept me turning the pages.

I also liked the way Lavender effectively depicted the competitiveness between the star students in 1994, as this was a crucial aspect of the plot.

The relationship between Alex Shipley, a Harvard professor and former student, and Richard Aldiss, the enigmatic professor whose innocence she proved in 1994, is derivative of that between Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling. I liked how Richard Aldiss’s character is deliberately ambiguous – did he or didn’t he do it? Is he or isn’t he evil? However, his explanation of why he kept secret for 12 years a key piece of information which could have proven his innocence is just ridiculous. Being tight-lipped and coy when you’re facing life in prison isn’t the mark of an enigma, it’s unrealistic.

And that’s really what my dissatisfaction boils down to - the lack of logic. I expect red herrings in mysteries, but the ones used here did not make sense to me. People talk in riddles, which they don’t do in real life.

The entire plot revolves around the literary game called the “Procedure” which sounds as mysterious and inviting as a .... biopsy or anything requiring surgical tools. For me to have bought into the book, I needed to buy into the “Procedure’s” dangerous mystique; unfortunately, it just sounded like Dungeons and Dragons for lit majors.

"'We were walking down the street...and someone started saying lines. I recognized the passage--it was from deep inside the novel...I fell into my own role, saying the lines and using the gestures exactly from the text. It has to be exact; the player has to show a mastery of Fallows, down to the very last detail. And that second time I knew from others' faces--I had won.'

"'And what happens if you win?' Mitchell asked quietly.

"Aldiss turned his gaze up. Something had changed in his face, eclipsed the hard-set tension from before. His eyes flashed. 'You are accepted,' he said. 'The Procedure ends and you become one of the elite.'

"'And if you lose?' asked Alex. 'What then?'

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"'Then you are shunned. And as a Fallows scholar, to not be inside, to not be one of them--that is a fate worse than death.'"

A character called it “high nerd” and I would have to agree (and this is coming from a pretty nerdy lit major). Nothing in the book indicated to me that the “Procedure” was a life or death game (or even fun) so the above passage made me laugh – sorry, I really didn’t mean to. Connected with the “Procedure” are the novels of Paul Fallows, the phantom author who may or may not be invented. Again, upon reading vague descriptions of his books, I didn’t see any clues as to why they would inspire a cult following.

Dominance felt schizophrenic – one moment an elaborate literary mystery, the next a potboiler riddled with clichéd phrases. I don’t mind reading one or the other, but mashed up together, the result confused and disappointed me.
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Jun 23, 2011 Kari Wolfe rated it 4 of 5 stars

This makes the third thriller this summer that I’ve had problems putting down.

In 1994, nine university students participated in a unique class called “Unraveling a Literary Mystery,” taught by Dr. Richard Aldiss via his jail cell where he was serving a sentence for two gruesome murders. He introduced them to a game called the Procedure, a process of the study and understanding of the works of reclusive literary master, Paul Fallows.

During that class, one student, Alex Shipley, figured out the id...more This makes the third thriller this summer that I’ve had problems putting down.

In 1994, nine university students participated in a unique class called “Unraveling a Literary Mystery,” taught by Dr. Richard Aldiss via his jail cell where he was serving a sentence for two gruesome murders. He introduced them to a game called the Procedure, a process of the study and understanding of the works of reclusive literary master, Paul Fallows.

During that class, one student, Alex Shipley, figured out the identity of the reclusive “literary mystery” Paul Fallows and found information that helped release Aldiss from his prison cell.

Now, years later, she’s going back to Jasper College and getting the “old crew” together because someone has recreated one of the murders from the past with a former classmate. The fear is: every one of them could be next—or the killer.

This was a fascinating premise for a story.

It’s not a strong character-based novel—I didn’t get that strong of a connection with the characters but, for some novels, that’s okay. Will Lavender has developed a plot that I was completely absorbed in. And I’m good with that. Lavender kept me on my toes trying to figure out what was going on and stringing me along for the ride. He kept me guessing along with Alex, the main character, and, for that, I was pretty happy

The book flipped from the past (1994) to the present, essentially telling two intertwined stories at the same time. I think Lavender did an extremely nice job of helping the author keep track of what had happened in the previous section of that timeline. Oftentimes, books that switch back and forth can get confusing for a reader because they don’t remember what happened in the previous section—any time a reader takes a break from a story (or any part of a story), forgetting is a possibility, meaning, of course, you have to go back and read the last page of the previous section—and it disrupts the flow of the narrative–and pulls the reader out of the story. Lavender makes it easy to remember without making too much of an author intrusion—and, besides, I didn’t want to put the book down anyway

A good quick read. Now I want his first book, Obedience, and I’ll definitely be in for the next book he writes as well.

(Disclaimer: Received ARC from Simon & Schuster through Publisher’s Weekly.)(less)

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May 22, 2011 Jackie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: pleasure-reading, work-review-related-reading

Will Lavender is inventing his own genre--"puzzle thrillers", which his website describes as "novels that are not quite mysteries and not quite thrillers but incorporate elements of both". Whatever else they may be, they are tantalizing reads to a mystery buff and book lover
such as myself.

"Dominance" jumps back and forth between 1994 and the present day, following nine very special literature students and their highly controversial professor. The students were handpicked and Richard Aldiss, the...more

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May 05, 2011 Nancy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Paul Fallows is the most reclusive person since Howard Roark. Students have been looking for him for years. A game has sprung up around their search called The Procedure. It is played by immediately stepping into a roll as one of the characters in one of the two novels he wrote. There is reportedly another novel but is has never been found.
Upon the death/murder of Michael Tanner his fellow classmates regroup to pay tribute and to become reacquainted. Alexandria Shipley, Dr. of Literature at Harv...more

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Jun 29, 2011 Angie rated it 1 of 5 stars

In Dominance, brilliant literature professor Dr. Richard Aldiss arranges to teach a televised class from a prison cell where he is serving consecutive life sentences for the brutal murders of two graduate students. Aldiss challenges the nine top English majors at Jasper College to unravel a literary mystery, the identity of pseudonymous author Paul Fallows. During the course, Alex Shipley assures her academic future by uncovering not only Fallows' identity but also information that clears Aldiss...more In Dominance, brilliant literature professor Dr. Richard Aldiss arranges to teach a televised class from a prison cell where he is serving consecutive life sentences for the brutal murders of two graduate students. Aldiss challenges the nine top English majors at Jasper College to unravel a literary mystery, the identity of pseudonymous author Paul Fallows. During the course, Alex Shipley assures her academic future by uncovering not only Fallows' identity but also information that clears Aldiss of the murders. Years later one of the former class members is murdered in a manner very similar to the grad students' killings, and Alex is again involved in the search for a killer.
Will Lavender really knows how to set up intriguing puzzles and establish an atmosphere of suspense. There are four mysteries in Dominance. Who is Paul Fallows? Who killed the two graduate students? Who killed Alex's former classmate? And was the death of another former classmate several years earlier really a suicide? I was thoroughly drawn into Alex's investigations.
Notwithstanding a fascinating yarn, I cannot recommend Dominance. There are problems with details and plot plausibility so numerous that I will not list them all. As an example, Alex and Keller are in a car, and the book says Alex pulled into a driveway. In the next sentence Keller parks the car. Did they switch drivers in between? Lewis Prine is described as a psychiatrist in one place and a psychologist in another. On one page it says that Dean Rice has never visited Aldiss, and on the next page it says the house has changed since the last time he was there. On the level of situational implausibilities, the police detective comes running into the middle of a memorial service for a murder victim to announce there has been another murder & to clear the room. There is no suggestion that the people at the service are in immediate danger, and I do think even the most zealous police office would have waited until Alex finished her eulogy! Alex and Keller have a conversation inside Keller's room while Frank is being murdered outside the bedroom door, apparently without hearing any noise from the violent encounter. The Jasper students are supposedly the smartest, most competitive of Jasper's senior English majors. Fallows only published two books, but apparently none of the students reads the second book or, at least, notes the striking fact that the second book is about someone who is an impersonator. It is almost the end of the semester before Keller mentions to Alex that he has read the second book and announces dramatically that this detail might be significant. Students in a group like this would probably all have read these two books before the first week was over and be clamoring to discuss the meaning of the second book's theme. Perhaps worst of all, it becomes clear at the end of the book that Aldiss had information that could have cleared him without the very uncertain & elaborate scheme of a night class in which he hoped a student would discover very tenuous clues and follow the trail to the same end. He did not need that class. No matter how much this strange man liked to play games, I cannot believe he did not DISlike being in prison even more. I could go on with the examples, but you get my drift....
Despite the many small and large flaws that kept annoying me, I did want to continue to read to find the solution to the many puzzles, so if you can completely suspend your critical and analytical thinking when you read an exciting book, then you will probably enjoy Dominance. If not, you are better off looking elsewhere for your summer read.
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Jul 12, 2011 Paul Pessolano rated it 4 of 5 stars

“Dominance” by Will Lavender, published by Simon and Schuster.

Category – Mystery/Thriller

When I read Will Lavender’s first book “Obedience”, I thought it was one of the best books that I had read that year. It was different in its premise, characters, and an ending that was next to impossible to anticipate.

Lavender has done the same thing with his second book, “Dominance”.

The setting is in a small college in Vermont. A small number of exceptional students are invited to participate in a new cour...more

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Jul 12, 2011 Donna Brown rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: audiobook

This book started very promisingly. I love a good thriller or mystery and this seemed to provide a good mix of puzzles, mysteries and dangers.

The book revolves around a former professor (once convicted of murder, now acquitted), a current professor (once a student of the former professor), an author and a game called 'The Procedure', which seems to involve emulating the author's works in real life. The aspects of the mystery surrounding the professor and author and murders that have taken place...more

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Aug 08, 2011 Melody Scott rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

What a ride! The tale takes place in the past and the present, passing the two stories back and forth easily. There are of course many similarities in the stories, and both star the intelligent Alex and the sinister but even more intelligent Richard Aldiss, her mentor and teacher.

In the past she takes his night class and works on a puzzle to exonerate her professor of the murder charges that keep him in prison. The night class is taught by Richard from prison, making those scenes very tense and...more

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Jun 23, 2011 Vpop rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads

ARC received through the Goodreads First Reads program. (Thank you!)

The book had an intriguing concept- a modern whodunit interspersed with equally mysterious flashbacks, and I could definitely feel the tension and suspense in some scenes. Unfortunately, it lost me at the revelation of the Procedure. All the lead-up to this elite and mysterious game, (view spoiler)...more

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Apr 07, 2013 Rob rated it 2 of 5 stars

Call it 2.5 stars. It's got what seems to be a can't-miss premise, but author Lavender kinda botches it anyway. It's 1994, and nine students opt to take a night class taught by a literature professor in prison for killing two female students. Then fast-forward to the present day. The profesor was vindicated and released, and one of the students from the night class has been murdered in the same way as the two undergrads from before. The surviving students gather for the funeral only to discover...more

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Jul 07, 2011 Jessica at Book Sake rated it 2 of 5 stars

I was unimpressed with Will Lavender’s novel, Dominance. It had an excellent premise and I really wanted to like it, but the writing was terrible. Granted, I’m very detail-oriented (especially when reading a mystery), but I think most readers would be bothered by Lavender’s inconsistencies. Usually the problems were small, such as the driver of a car changing from page to page, but they are constant and extremely annoying. The plot is also entirely unbelievable. The most interesting and intellig...more

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Jul 06, 2011 Alisha rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: amazon-vine, arc-s, mystery-thriller

You ever read a book where you dislike the character so much you WANT them to get picked off by the serial killer? No...well that was my reaction to the main character in Dominance. This chick was a flaming idiot (when she wasn't being so annoyingly condescending). I could excuse her behavior when she was in college considering she was young and I can buy her naivete then. However, if 15 years pass and you're still acting like a clueless idiot, then I'm thinking that's more of an "it's always go...more You ever read a book where you dislike the character so much you WANT them to get picked off by the serial killer? No...well that was my reaction to the main character in Dominance. This chick was a flaming idiot (when she wasn't being so annoyingly condescending). I could excuse her behavior when she was in college considering she was young and I can buy her naivete then. However, if 15 years pass and you're still acting like a clueless idiot, then I'm thinking that's more of an "it's always going to be there" thing rather than something that can be beaten out of you with time. Unfortunately, the stupid idiot of the main character wasn't my only problem with Dominance.

Dominance is one of those books that has a kick-ass, wonderfully creepy premise...that doesn't live up to its full potential. For example, the Procedure is supposed to be this creepy life and death game that makes everyone who is so absorbed with it go a teeny bit crazy. Yeah, I didn't buy that considering that the Procedure was barely alluded to and what was alluded wasn't interesting enough to make a normal sane person get so involved in it that they are desperate to WIN it at all cost. And the clues that the Night Class connected to Aldiss and the murders were very...out there. I have a hard time believing that someone as idiotic as Alex can make a connection between clues A and B (when A and B have absolutely NOTHING to do with each other and require tons of leaps in logic) when it takes a genius to make those types of connections (and a genius she is not).

Another thing: I get that the author was trying to have this sort of symbiotic relationship between Alex (the idiot) and Aldiss (the somewhat creepy suspect guy), but I just couldn't get into it. Aldiss has the potential to be truly...off and creepy, but he never comes out that way. I didn't see him having the type of presence that would get students to do his bidding. He just wasn't that much of a developed character. In fact, none of the characters were very well-developed. And that made it hard to care about them and react woefully when they started kicking the bucket.

Why the two stars instead of one? Because Dominance really did have a great premise. I also liked how the narrative shifted from the 1994 Night Class to Alex's current thoughts (that could be because I wouldn't have been able to deal with a book that had Alex's sole narrative throughout it). The 1994 narrative reminded me heavily of those teenage slasher flicks from the '90s (a lot of which I adore), so that was naturally my favorite part of Dominance. The current plot was one that I could take or leave.

So, in the end, I was disappointed with Dominance. I think it had the potential to be a really creepy, well-drawn out, psychological thriller, but it fell short. However, the premise was so unique that it kept me reading (that and the fact that it was a Vine book, of course) even when I was rolling my eyes at the stupidity of the main character regardless of the fact that I'm supposed to buy that she's really smart. Anyway, I think maybe I'll give the author's next book a shot in hopes that it's better than this one.(less)

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Jul 05, 2011 Christa (More Than Just Magic) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, arc

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Nine students are brought together for a very special class. An English class, taught by a former professor, now serving a prison term for the murder of two students. The class is called Unraveling a Literary Mystery (which could easily be the subtitle for the whole book) and it is taught by Richard Aldiss. Aldiss takes the students on a journey to discover the true identity of the author Paul Fa...more Review originally posted at Christa's Hooked on Books --> http://christashookedonbooks.blogspot...

Nine students are brought together for a very special class. An English class, taught by a former professor, now serving a prison term for the murder of two students. The class is called Unraveling a Literary Mystery (which could easily be the subtitle for the whole book) and it is taught by Richard Aldiss. Aldiss takes the students on a journey to discover the true identity of the author Paul Fallows. Unorthodox, to say the least, he teaches using mind games and puzzles, forcing the students to find out the truth for themselves.

Fifteen years later, one of the nine (Michael Tanner) is murdered and they find themselves together again. Anyone could be a suspect. Everyone IS a suspect. The murder looks like a copycat and the former students find themselves sucked back in to Aldiss' mind games and riddles. But now it's about more than just an author's identity, it's about saving their own lives.

Dominance is an incredibly exciting book. Switching back and forth between the night class and the present murder investigation, it reveals information slowly and carefully. I found myself eagerly turning the pages, wanting to know what happens next and if my guess was the right one. I loved that the students were involved in a literary mystery. It was the type of class I wish I could have taken in University (minus the murderer as a teacher).

This book was very much plot driven. The characters are simply pieces in a game. With the exception of Richard Aldiss and Alexandra Shipley, none of the characters really stand out. In fact I often forgot who was who when it came to the other students in the class. The exceptions, however, were great characters. I loved Alexandra's determination and intelligence. And Aldiss is definitely the creepiest professor I've ever come across. I imagine Richard Aldiss is what Hannibal Lector would be like if he taught English Literature.

Dominance is described as a “puzzle thriller”. One that will keep you guessing. It gives you pieces little by little and they begin to fall into place. It is creepy and at times down right frightening. I loved the alternating view time periods. They worked well and complemented each other nicely. There are actually two mysteries in this book – the identity of Paul Fallows and the murder of Michael Tanner and though they are connected, neither answer is revealed until the last possible minute. Definitely an example of some great writing. Dominance is a game and you, the reader, are its player.(less)

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May 14, 2012 Dan rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Lit class has never been sexier.

Seriously. I wish my literature courses had been this cutting-edge, this worldly important, this dangerous. I may have enjoyed them better. Sadly, lit class is boring and will always be boring, and will certainly never allow a student to solve a crime as it has in this novel.

And therein lies my first complaint: somewhat of a disconnect with reality, due to an overblown sense of the importance of literature outside the academic sphere. A question like "Who is Paul...more Lit class has never been sexier.

Seriously. I wish my literature courses had been this cutting-edge, this worldly important, this dangerous. I may have enjoyed them better. Sadly, lit class is boring and will always be boring, and will certainly never allow a student to solve a crime as it has in this novel.

And therein lies my first complaint: somewhat of a disconnect with reality, due to an overblown sense of the importance of literature outside the academic sphere. A question like "Who is Paul Fallows?" would never reach such heights of national attention as it has in Dominance. A novel as literary as what Fallows wrote would be very unlikely to hit the bestseller list, and something so contemporary would never be given such attention in a higher-educational lit class. (Although Jasper is a college and not a university.) Furthermore, no one would ever play a game wherein the scenes of a book are acted out to homicidal extremes. In short, I had some trouble suspending my disbelief.

I found myself liking this book less and less the closer to the end I got. When I really started looking into what was going on, I didn't like what I saw. Passages of two- or one-page chapters flashing back and forth either between points of view (a second murder victim is easy to identify as his is the first POV outside our main character's that we see) or time periods keep up the tension well enough but read as though the author was making sure this would be easy to adapt to the big screen. I also can't help but feel by the end that the author is very pleased with himself for having constructed and then unravelled his mysteries in this made-up world. The novel certainly comes off as, "I have an English degree and by God, I will use it." (A sentiment I can, admittedly, sympathize with.)

Likewise, we have Alex Shipley, a Strong Female Character (written by a man) who falls apart the moment one starts looking at her role in the story. Sure, she's brainy and even a little socially awkward, but she dresses like she knows how sexy she is. Though credited with discovering the truth all those years ago in Iowa, we find that both in the past and the present, she figured out very little on her own. She and the reader are spoonfed the beginning and end of each mystery. She is a damsel in distress in both time periods, and her knight in shining armor is an even less believable character: a football player who reads literature. He's smart and hunky and just every intelligent and capable lit professor's wet dream, am I right?

But I'm being cynical.

There is a good narrative in this, and a thriller comprised of mysteries within mysteries that kept me guessing until the end. Richard Aldiss is an amazingly sympathetic character, and I was absolutely heartbroken during the final third of the story, when it seemed that he might not be as innocent as everyone had been told. I spent the first half of the novel bursting at the seams to figure out what the Procedure was. I did have some trouble keeping track of the large cast of characters (a fact that kept me from finishing the book the first time I tried reading it), but halfway through I was flinging wild guesses left and right and sometimes back left again, second-guessing myself. It really only began to fall apart at the very end.

Ultimately, I think the main problem with Dominance is that it doesn't have a defined audience. People who like thrillers are likely going to be uninterested in the trials and tribulations of literature scholars. People interested in literature are going to react like I did, with deep analysis leading to unsatisfying conclusions. It just comes off as a novel written for the author himself, in which literary mysteries can create heroes and ruin lives, and the mythical litjock roams free in the Vermont wilderness.

The reviewer received a free copy of this book via the Goodreads First Reads program.(less)

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Jul 08, 2011 Charlotte rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: advanced-readers-copy, nook

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Dominance is truly a literary mystery, a puzzle unraveling with each chapter. With each page the reader gets a little bit more revealed to them and "the game" sucks you in a way that makes you a part of the novel. The book flashes back and forth from 1994 to present day. And each time there is a "switch" in time you go "aarrrgh!" because you want to stay in that year to figure out what happens, it is the element that hooks the reader into never putting the...more

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Jul 07, 2011 Katherine rated it 5 of 5 stars

Do not look at the picture of the author of this book--it is too deceiving. That handsome boyish face hides a diabolic mind!

The premise of this novel is so simplistic. In 1982 a celebrated literature professor at a small Vermont college ( it overlooks Lake Champlain---not far from Orwell--hmmm and Route 2 ) is convicted of the axe murders of two of his former students. They were part of a group that were trying to unearth the actual identity of a reclusive author, Paul Fallows and were found w...more Do not look at the picture of the author of this book--it is too deceiving. That handsome boyish face hides a diabolic mind!

The premise of this novel is so simplistic. In 1982 a celebrated literature professor at a small Vermont college ( it overlooks Lake Champlain---not far from Orwell--hmmm and Route 2 ) is convicted of the axe murders of two of his former students. They were part of a group that were trying to unearth the actual identity of a reclusive author, Paul Fallows and were found with Fallows' books, among others, covering their bodies. Now in 1994, the professor Richard Aldiss has been given permission to teach a night course to nine carefully selected seniors--elite literature students. He gives them clues in various ways to once more identify Fallows and in so doing reveal the real murderer. Aldiss claims to be innocent of the murders. One of the nine, Alexandra Shipley, is successful and Aldiss is granted his freedom. On the notoriety of the case, Shipley, who was headed to Harvard as a grad student, is eventually given a prestigious professorship at Harvard. Her life, it would seem, though greatly impacted by the experience of the night class, is good.

Flash forward to the present: One of the nine, an NYPD detective has committed suicide in his squad car. Shortly thereafter, another, now himself a lit prof at the site of the night class, Jasper College, is murdered with an axe and body is covered with books including those two --he only wrote two--of Fallows'. Aldiss contacts Alex, tells her there is another Fallows' manuscript and enlists her aid in locating it and the new murderer. Simple whodunnit, right? Wrong!

The book moves back and forth from the present to 1994 back to the present. We see the nine as students on a quest and we meet them again as they reunite to mourn the death of their friend on the Jasper campus. The narrative keeps you riveted for nothing is given to you--you become a tenth player in the game called Procedure.... a role-playing game in which the characters of Fallows' books and the scenes from the book are played out. Only problem is--you never know when the game is happening. Who was/is Fallows? Did Aldiss kill those two girls? Is he the killer again? Why are the nine being eliminated--more do die? Just as the end seems to come, the plot takes a turn and you find the mystery, the 1994 mystery and the present mystery are NOT at an end. Even on the last page--though all the threads seem to have been tied up and the killers revealed---does not feel like the end. Is the game over?

One things for sure I'm glad I wasn't a lit major and that obsession over an author and manipulation by my profs weren't part of my studies. Darwin is mystery enough for me! I did know which of the nine had turned very early on but I'm not sure why--it was almost subconscious since the plot spirals just like Fallows' books and kept me looking for that rabbit hole that would lead to solution. It was an engrossing and mysterious ride and Will Lavender has been added to my list of intriguing authors!

My only criticism and I feel this way about the TV shows, NCIS, Bones, Rissolli and Isles etc. Doesn't anyone pay their electric bills? For that matter, doesn't anyone have electricity? I'm so tired of total darkness and flashlights in every scene! Doesn't freak me out or increase the tension--it just irritates the hell out of me! Very minor distraction, however.

Karen B wrote: "Katherine, is Dominion as bloody violent as the cover looks? I am picturing a lot of people getting hacked up."

Actually, no, though the murders were axe murders and books were strewn onto the bodies, the actual crimes predate the action in the book. There are several that occur over the course of the narrative but Lavender uses psychology and mystery rather than gore to keep you reading.(less)

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Jul 15, 2011 Jason Golomb rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, thriller, mystery

Wil Lavender's "Dominance" is smart, dark, intense and deeply moody. This thrilling murder mystery is part "Silence of the Lambs", and part Agatha Christie and is driven by Lavender's slow and purposeful development of characters and clues and revelations around key plot points.

Lavender bounces the reader between past and present building up the mysteries and tensions surrounding a 20-year old pair of murders and a recent murder that brings former college classmates together for a macabre reunio...more

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Jul 10, 2011 Sandra rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads

From the moment I saw a picture of the cover of Dominance on the Goodreads giveaway page, I knew I wanted to read it. It's a bloody axe made of books! I was thrilled when, the second time it came up for entry, I actually won. I thought I would love it and I was right.

Dominance is like Agatha Christie on crack. I absolutely could not put it down; you should have seen my trying to cook dinner tonight, one hand holding up the book, the other stirring the pot. In 1994 a group of nine college student...more

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Jul 10, 2011 Brenda rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads

Real literature professors probably shouldn't read this book. Unlike Donna Tartt, A.S. Byatt, and Matthew Pearl, Will Lavender does not manage to construct intellectual characters, who are convincingly intellectual. Instead of telling the reader, repeatedly, that Richard Aldiss is a genius and that the students selected for his night class are exceptionally bright, Lavender needs to convince the reader that these individuals are more intelligent than the average,literate Joe or Josey.

The dialog...more Real literature professors probably shouldn't read this book. Unlike Donna Tartt, A.S. Byatt, and Matthew Pearl, Will Lavender does not manage to construct intellectual characters, who are convincingly intellectual. Instead of telling the reader, repeatedly, that Richard Aldiss is a genius and that the students selected for his night class are exceptionally bright, Lavender needs to convince the reader that these individuals are more intelligent than the average,literate Joe or Josey.

The dialogue should be more challenging than the following excerpts:

"What is literature?"

"Literature is emotion."

"Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols."

"Great books are both of these things....The emotion in Anna Karenina is fierce. The symbolism in books such as Ulysses and Beneath the Wheel and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, is still being fought over in lit programs across the world." (19)

Would a professor who can expect students to have read Anna Karenina and Ulysses be satisfied to pose such an entry level question? The students are all described as "upperclass English majors" at Harvard!

Also, I need to know more about Alex Shipley's career as an academic in order to understand how her participation in solving a murder has led to her appointment as a professor of literature at Harvard. So far as I know, Harvard appointments aren't based on tabloid notoriety.

Now, I admit I was fighting this narrative from the beginning mostly for the same reason that real crime scene analysts express incredulity at TV programs such as CSI. Insiders will likely balk when verisimilitude is flagrantly challenged. Yes, I’m willing to suspend disbelief to some extent in order to enjoy a work of fiction. For example, I was quite bemused that Richard Aldiss was able to teach a class via audio-visual hookup from prison without any technological glitches whatsoever. Does this ever happen in the real world? I’ve been the professor in such a classroom with students communicating via long-distance audio-video connection—and I’ve also participated in meetings involving professors at different institutions. If we aren’t coping with audio difficulties, we’re working around video glitches. I also can’t tell you how many intellectual conference presenters I’ve watched struggling to compensate for malfunctions.

While I can certainly understand why Lavender would not feel the need to introduce technology as antagonist (he’s already juggling numerous characters in his mystery plot), I do think that the author should be conducting some research if he’s going to make professional researchers and professors his primary characters.

That’s what puts Tartt, Byatt, and Pearl in another league. I am convinced that they conduct extensive research in order to compose their texts. Maybe Lavender prefers a less literate audience, but, if so, why insist on the über-cerebral nature of his protagonists?
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