Wednesday, July 1, 2015

The Secret City: Woodlawn Cemetery and the Buried History of New York

Author: Fred Goodman
Stars: 1
Review by: MandyApgar

I am not entirely sure what the author's point was with this. It is a collection of brief biographies of persons interred at Woodlawn, but with no real tie between them. So the book has almost no flow, especially when a shorter section ends and then a totally new, unrelated, life begins. And he had a tendency to imagine the persons' thoughts and actions when presenting what should have been simple facts. Artistic liberty is to a certain degree needed when one is discussing the deceased, but have some respect. Just very, very boring and badly presented.
 

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