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mcc's review against another edition
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4.5
A really delightful book and I loved the way it unfolded. The author himself has an interesting personal story about how he happened upon 'The Feather Thief' story and then gets really tangled up in it as he investigates it and with it gets tangled into a complex world of morality and justice.
mickibuie's review against another edition
4.0
Weird mashup of many of my interests in one book. Heists, evolutionary biology, middle aged white men's weird hobbies. Held up even after listening to the TAL episode
missfortune99's review against another edition
3.0
You know when you're walking down a busy street, and you get stuck behind someone moving at a glacial pace, and all you can do is quietly fill with white-hot rage while you repeatedly think, "C'mon, c'mon, PLEASE MOVE." This is a little bit what reading this felt like. The heist that Wallace examines is interesting, and his writing is methodical but not too technical. In fact, I gave this review three stars instead of two because of his writing. The pace isn't set right, however. To get to any information about the actual theft, you must wade through 70 pages of the history of naturalism, birds, fashion trends, and animal advocacy. All worthy topics, but not what I'm here for. The Feather Thief is lacking a sense of urgency, just like the meandering walker you always get stuck behind when there's somewhere you really need to be. If the chapters alternated a little more between history and the crime, I might have been able to make it through. For now, I'm going to stick with Michael Finkel.