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The Victim
Written by W.E.B. Griffin
Narrated by Michael Russotto
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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W.E.B. Griffin has captured a worldwide audience with his stunning novels of men and women of outstanding courage. BROTHERHOOD OF WAR revealed the drama and challenge of army life...THE CORPS explored the proud tradition of the Marines...Now BADGE OF HONOR takes you behind the scenes of today's urban police force. A brutal Mafia slaying rocks the city of Philadelphia when the only living witness is revealed--a wealthy debutante involved with the targeted mobster. One of the suspects is a cop, Matt Payne, who unwittingly takes on the ultimate battle between organized crime, upper-class power...and his own police force.
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W.E.B. Griffin
W.E.B. Griffin is the author of six bestselling series—and now Clandestine Operations. William E. Butterworth IV has worked closely with his father for more than a decade, and is the coauthor with him of many books, most recently Hazardous Duty and Top Secret.
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Reviews for The Victim
Rating: 3.4062498839285715 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
112 ratings8 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yet another literary plot which would've been nullified by the existence of air conditioning.
Bellow's muscular rpose was as strident as ever. My wife read this a few years ago and pointed out how Edward Albee's Zoo Story has a similar plot device: oh, the antagonist is also named Allbee in Bellow's novel. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5St. Barts 2018 #9 - A rather bizarre book to end up my vacation reading for this year. Lots of Jewish cultural thinking here, some of which is bigoted against that thinking. A very weird scenario where our leading man Asa Leventhal is a minor crank in the machinery of a trade magazine in NYC and inadvertently, creates tension at a job interview that results in someone else losing their job, and ultimately their whole existence.....at least that is what is proposed to Leventhal, and the absurd notion that he is obligated to make it right....how, we don't know. Leventhal, while innocent of any negative intention, and initially unwilling to take this accusation seriously, eventually buys into his accused role and the accuser sort of takes over his life......and it must be some underlying insecurity that never allows him to say what really needs to be said, and end this ridiculous, destructive force in his life....thus, he becomes the victim of the initial victim. The philosophical ramblings lost me several times, and while the protagonist Allbee is very unpleasant, frankly i felt similarly about Leventhal.....none of these people would ever stay more than a few minutes in my life.....so this was hard to get through......i just could not care for these people the way i wanted to......leaving me to wonder what it really is all about.....and i continue to think such.....which is why it is 2 1/2 stars and not just 2. Proceed with caution on this. I will now read other reviews and see if i've once again completely missed the boat....
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Victim is mind-blowingly well-written; and the characters and events therein are described so succinctly, with hyper-realism. The character development, exploration of defense mechanisms and psychology is practically unique. However, the story itself, that is the events which transpire, are only moderately interesting. I certainly enjoyed this page-turner.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A profoundly disappointing book. I don't even feel enough to vent about it - just apathetic, willing to let it fade out of memory.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Victim by Saul Bellow is the story of Asa Leventhal, left on his own by his wife who is visiting family out of town. Leventhal is at loose ends until he bumps into a former acquaintance Kirby Allbee whom he does not recognize at first. Allbee is down on his luck, drinking suspects Leventhal who is unsympathetic. Allbee confronts Leventhal, blames him for his ill fortune because he once got Leventhal a job interview only to find out that Leventhal insulted his boss rather publicly. Allbee was fired soon-after and still holds Leventhal to blame for what followed; Allbee lost his wife and has not been able to find a decent job since. He is at the end of his money with on where to turn.So he latches on to Leventhal. Leventhal feels guilty for what has happened, or rather he feels that others may have a low opinion of him because of it, and that if he can help Allbee their opinion of him may improve. Leventhal is continually motivated not by what he thinks is right but by what he believes others will think of him. Allbee soon becomes the guest who wouldn't leave, showing up at all hours, asking for increasingly intrusive favors from Leventhal, eventually moving into his apartment. Allbee is never grateful for Leventhall's help, he continues to blame him and to suggest that there is a Jewish conspiracy against him. How long Leventhall will put up with Allbee and how far Allbee will go are what make up the conflict of The Victim.Just who is the victim here Allbee or Leventhal? At what point do their roles reverse? This is an interesting conflict up to a point. I soon found myself having a very hard time with Leventhal and with the book itself. It is a bit of a period piece, and one supposes people may have willingly let near strangers move into their New York apartments in 1947, but who would put up with a "charity case" that insults their race openly? 1947 was a different time, true, maybe people were used to that sort of thing then, but I would have kicked Allbee to the curb by page 150, while Leventhal does not stand up to him until 100 pages later.The Victim is very well written, this is my first exposure to Saul Bellow--I think I'll be back for more, and it is an interesting window into the Jewish community of the 1940's. But I found the novel frustrating and surprisingly difficult going much of the time. So I'm giving it only three out of five stars.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5a little flat
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51947. Asa Leventhal lives on Irving Place with his wife and works as an editor of a trade magazine. His wife is visiting her mother and it's a very hot summer. Asa goes to the park and runs into someone he vaguely knows, who starts accusing him of intentionally ruining his life. Asa's self-doubt and paranoia allow him to be drawn into this grifter's tissue of lies and manipulation. Wasn't sure if Asa was the victim or if the other guy was ultimately. Beautiful scenes of New York and the Staten Island Ferry.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was very gripping and had an air of moral depth. Bellow asks the question: How much do we owe our fellow man when he is down and out? It is a book about how human beings relate to one another. The language is impressively beautiful and I enjoyed it very much. I look forward to reading another book by Bellow in the near future.