A review by violetturtledove
Underground London by Stephen Smith

informative lighthearted slow-paced

3.0

This was fairly interesting in places although it suffers a little from being 20 years old now. 

When it was written it was probably a fairly unique book but now there's a lot more out there in the form of books, blogs, YouTube channels etc so a lot of the facts here might not be so surprising to readers as they once were. 

There's humour but most of it was a bit glib for me. I think part of it was the author not being too respectful or honest with his sources. It may be a minor complaint and I understand that journalists sometimes have to be a bit sneaky, but it felt unnecessary to include in the book that certain people had told him things off-record and he was including them anyway. 

Altogether not bad but I have the feeling there are better books on the subject.