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deecue2 's review for:
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by Dan Fagin
After a very strong start this book got less and less enjoyable to the point where I just wanted to get through it. Most of the last third of the book should have been moved to the footnotes. It was just unnecessary denseness that muddled the story. However, if you’re an environmental chemist this is the book for you.
The early sections of the book combined the best elements of The Ghost Map (Steven Johnson), The Emperor of All Maladies (Siddhartha Mukherjee) and A Civil Action (Jonathan Harr) to provide thorough and interesting background information to set up the Toms River story.
As the story moved on it took on too many elements for the sake of thoroughness but at the detriment of effective narrative.
Overall the author writes very well except for his early habit of excessive foreshadowing and his later habit of overusing the phrase, “In other words,..."
The early sections of the book combined the best elements of The Ghost Map (Steven Johnson), The Emperor of All Maladies (Siddhartha Mukherjee) and A Civil Action (Jonathan Harr) to provide thorough and interesting background information to set up the Toms River story.
As the story moved on it took on too many elements for the sake of thoroughness but at the detriment of effective narrative.
Overall the author writes very well except for his early habit of excessive foreshadowing and his later habit of overusing the phrase, “In other words,..."