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Title: The Butcher's Theater (Jonathan Kellerman)
ISBN: 0553451561
Author:
Jonathan Kellerman
Publicate Date: 1989-01-01
Publish: 1989-01-01
List Price: $16.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Audio Cassette
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Amazon Lowest New Price: $201.81
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1: Extremely racist book
Having lived and worked in Jerusalem for four years, I was looking forward to reading this novel set in that intriguing and complex city. It was a huge disappointment--incredibly racist. I expect Kellerman thinks he gets away with it, because the two main characters, a Jewish American and an African American detective, are well-developed and sympathetically drawn. Unfortunately his Arab characters are very superficial, distorted and stereotypical: a knife loving Arab, exploitive of women, duplicitous, Nazi-allied, a horrifically sadistic serial killer. If similar characters had been written about any other ethnic group, a publisher wouldn't have touched it. Really disgustingly racist.
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2: Book
Delivery was timely as promised. The item was the exact quality promised. I would not hesitate to purchase from this seller again.
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3: All Jonathan Kellerman's books are good
This is another great book of Jonathan Kellerman's. It doesn't star his usual detective, Alex Delaware, but in one of the books written later, the star of this book meets Alex Delaware. Anyway, you can't go wrong with a book by Jonathan Kellerman. (But his wife Faye is too gory for my taste.)
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4: Not the typical Jonathan Kellerman book
Jonathan Kellerman is one of my favorite authors, so when I started reading The Butcher's Theater I was pretty surprised. This book is not written in typical Jonathan Kellerman style--a quick and easy read that you have trouble putting down. The fact this book was set in Jerusalem was very distracting for me. The author had to spend a lot of copy explaining the cultural nuances, unfamiliar words and terms, the political environment and tensions, the ranks is the Israeli police force, etc. As a result, the storyline itself unfolded way too slowly. I put The Butcher's Theater down and read two other books before going back to it thinking maybe I just wasn't in the right frame of mind the first time. Still, on the second try, I could not get engaged. I don't think ever before in my life I've not finished a book that I started...but, I just can't bring myself to finish this one.
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5: Five Star Thriller
This is my first Jonathan Kellerman novel and believe me, it won't be my last. What a fantastically rivetting thriller!!! Honestly, I found this book very difficult to put down.
The book is set in the holy city of Jerusalem in 1985. A serial sex killer is murdering young Arab women and horribly mutilating their corpses. Inspector Daniel Sharavi, a Yemenite Jew, and his team, is tasked to solve the murders quickly, as they are starting to cause unrest in the city's Arab population. The situation grows ever more volatile and frustrating for the investigating officers. Against the background of the ongoing investigation, Kellerman interlaces the back story of his anonymous psychotic murderer in a way which I found utterly compelling. I cannot remember reading a better portrayal of the mind and development of a sex-killer, and I read dozens of crime fiction/true life crime novels every year. This character truly frightened the bejesus out of me; absolutely masterful and gripping in the extreme. I loved the Jerusalem setting and the characters of the various members of the murder task force and their families. The resolution of the case was exciting and satisfying and left me wanting more of this author. I cannot recommend this novel highly enough to fans of the genre. Absolutely wonderful book, and I now intend to read every book Mr Kellerman has written. I think an obsession has been born!
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