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Title: A Genius
Review: Honest to God, campers, if you don't like this book, what a miserable human being you must be. This is the kind of rich, nuanced work that many great authors can write just once in a lifetime -- how DeMille knocks them out every 18 months is beyond me. This is like Bonfire of the Vanities for grownups -- real wit instead of verbal jumping jacks, real insight instead of sociological blather. This book touches all the bases of what a great work of fiction should be: atmospheric, resonant, funny, tragic, poignant, lots of action-without-consequences, yet not so much of it that the reader suspends his willing disbelief. The protagonist, John Sutter, has a midlife crisis, but he has it with balls and panache instead of loads of whiny reflection. You can't go wrong with any of DeMille's books, but this one is simply great.
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