Bob gave me the book, An Object of Beauty, for Christmas (Actually, Book-Eve- December 23). It's an interesting book about the last 15 years in the Art World, specifically in NYC. It's cleverly written and is obviously well researched. The best part of the book is that when a painting is described in the story, there is a full color picture printed on that page with it. So the reader gets a vivid description and gets to see it for himself.
The plot was strong, but the character development was marginal. The formatting and all the things I learned about art made up for the fact that I didn't feel strongly one way or another about any of the characters.
Another compelling read by Steve Martin, renaissance man. I mean really- is there ANYTHING this man can't do? (I might have a slight crush on the guy).
Four out of Five Stars
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