A review by enantiodromia
The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjöberg

3.0

An interesting read and a lot of meandering, and Sjoberg can be hilarious, but for those coming by this book really hoping for a solid book about hoverflies, collecting hoverflies, and the eccentricities of naturalists written about in a direct way, keep on going. Sjoberg wanders off completely to talk about Malaise, the creator of the Malaise trap, for the rest of the book, to the point of the author's obsession with Malaise's life to the point of exploring Malaise's later-in-life art collection. Interesting, but not what reviews (elsewhere from Goodreads) and the jacket of the book itself had me thinking I'd be reading about. It really is a biography about Malaise.