UM: Book Review

In the Cleveland Plain Dealer, John Alden, an archaeologist associated with UM’s Museum of Anthropology, reviews “Black Market Truth,” a mystery about “ancient texts, Dionysian cults and Aristotle” by Sharon Kaye. Writes Alden: ”If reading Aristotle put you to sleep in college, reading Kaye’s fictional versions of his lost dialogues will be no improvement. The author does offer a well-plotted incursion into a Moscow mansion, and Kaye does a fine job of showing how cyberspace avatars might be used to carry out real-world crimes. But then there is a prostitute angling to run Athens’ School for Courtesans who tells Aristotle that she has ‘a lot of networking to do’ if she’s to get the job. … And every few pages some italicized thought – ‘If only I had a scroll, any one of them, to show for it!’ – breaks into the storytelling like a cell phone interrupting a string quartet.” [Source]