A Person of Interest (Audiobook)

from RebaRelishesReading

This is a rather odd book. It is beautifully written and is a fairly good read but it is a strange mixture. It is rather philosophical with the main character, a sixty-something college mathematics professor, reexamining his life, reconsidering assumptions, errors, failures and all of the factors...

from idiotgirl

Listened to this as an audiobook. This is a very good book. Mix in our contemporary preoccupations with race, elitism, immigration, agism, religion to unabomber and terrorism and you have the foundations of this story. A package bomb at a university. The office next door: a sixty-something mathem...

from Rascalstar

I listened to this book on CD and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a good story that keeps the reader concerned about the main character, and there are unexpected turns. A math professor and his family and friends provide the basis for events that spiral out of control when a crime happens, with plent...

from williecostello

From the very first page of A Person of Interest, it is obvious that Susan Choi is an author who loves writing sentences, and also one who is exceedingly good at it. Nearly every sentence of this midsize novel is a miniature work of art, a winding path of coordinate and subordinate clauses, so ma...

from Paulita

This is not a crime novel so much as a novel about the crimes we ourselves commit throughout our lives, our partial amnesia to them, and our chance to redeem ourselves. In prose that is not afraid to be precise and evocative, Choi engages us as detectives of the human heart, specifically that of ...