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saresen 's review for:
The Feather Thief
by Kirk Wallace Johnson
This book was so weird and so fascinating. If you told me that someone had written a book about a man who was a world class flutist who was obsessed with tying fish hook ties (but didn't fish) and who robbed a museum of almost 300 exotic birds, I would almost never have believed that it was a true story. Everything about it sounds crazy. Honestly the theft was interesting to read about, if a little heartbreaking, but I thought the most interesting "character" in the book was Alfred Russell Wallace, a man who coincidentally came up with the same theory of the origin of species as Darwin did, and instead of some epic Edison/Tesla showdown between the two naturalists he was pretty content to let Darwin have all of the fame and glory. I would read a whole book about just his travels through the jungle.
The writing was zippy and it felt like reading a thriller, albeit with a slightly more ineffective detective than most people would probably want to see.
The writing was zippy and it felt like reading a thriller, albeit with a slightly more ineffective detective than most people would probably want to see.