A review by thegoldenquetzal
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz

1.0

It feels as though the author sat down with her thesaurus, said, "How can I puff this draft up as much as possible?", and then replaced every other word with something in her thesaurus before proceeding to beat the reader about the head with gobs of passive voice. The writing is overly pretentious and stilted, and the concept - which sounds fascinating based on how the book is sold to us as readers - is not executed as promised. Furthermore, it is unbelievably dull to read.