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Title: The Web by Jonathan Kellerman, John Rubinstein ISBN: 0-553-47430-8 Publisher: Bantam Books-Audio Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (27 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Jonathan Kellerman's Day Off
Comment: I've become a good fan of Jonathan Kellerman's series of Alex Delaware novels, but if this were the first I'd ever read I would never have picked up another.
While the old scenario of being trapped on an island with no supply ship coming in some time creates some suspense, I found the payoff of this novel unrealistic and wholly unsatisfying. Kellerman tries to presentt a complex villian, with conflicting motivations, but just ends up with a muddy character given to maudlin speeches.
Then again...I *did* read all the way to the end and had to see how it all turned out. I should be so lucky to be able to write a 300+ page book that people would actually wade thru to the end! Everyone deserves a day off every now and then, and this was Mr. Kellerman's. Let's hope THE CLINIC, coming in January 1997 is a big rebound!
Rating: 1
Summary: Overstepping his experience
Comment: This is a crime story featuring Alex Delaware. In this story, Alex answers a request to help an old doctor in the South Seas organize some medical records for publication. Once Delaware arrives on the doctor's island, people start to die, and it's up to Delaware to pull together the clues of what's been happening and put an end to the deaths.
I found the story to be exceptionally preposterous as a murder/crime story. Kellerman seems to be writing from far beyond his experience, making up details and descriptions from his imagination rather than from fact or experience. One glaring example is when he has his main characters put on swim fins on the beach and then wander into the surf- -if you've ever tried this yourself, you probably still have the bruises to show for it, and won't forget to wait until you're well into the water to put the fins on next time you go snorkeling. Kellerman also manages to place McArthur at the battle of Saipan during World War II, among other gaffes. But worst is the entire premise of Delaware's trip to the island. Supposedly, Delaware, a psychologist who is notable enough to have stories printed about him in the popular press, receives a request to collaborate on a research and writing project with an unknown medical doctor who has lived on an obscure island in the South Pacific for years. The M.D. doesn't have any particular theories or hypotheses in mind that he is working on. Instead, he has some 40-50 years of unorganized records (from patients whom he has never sought consent to involve or use their records in a research project), and he expects Delaware to come out to the island and sort through the records on the off chance that there might be something worth publishing. This is the strangest notion I have ever read of how scientific collaboration operates- -obviously, Kellerman has never discussed scientific collaboration with any researcher friends that he might have. Much of the rest of the book runs at about the same level of quality and plausibility. The story itself takes a while to get laid out, but then picks up a bit through the second half and may hold the attention of determined readers.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good But should have been better
Comment: Of all the books that I have read of Kellerman this is the one that didn't interest me like the other one. It has some suspense in it but not as much as the others. But how Kellerman can keep something so well kept until it is the right time to say it is amazing. how in the end everything just comes together.
From day one Moreland seemed like he had many secrets and he liked to play games with using quotes which at the time didn't make sense. But once Alex confronts Moreland that's when it all just makes sense. What Moreland does is just awkward. But he means to do good even when it affects him, physically and mentally. overall it was a good book
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Title: Self-Defense by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345458834 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Devil's Waltz (Alex Delaware Novels (Paperback)) by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0553563521 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Survival of the Fittest by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345458842 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Time Bomb by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345460693 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Clinic by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 034546074X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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