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A review by lanternheart
Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders: An Urban Historical by Franz Lidz
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
For a book about a fascinating subject, Lidz' prose could unfortunately be quite rambling and, even in a short narrative, difficult to follow. This read far more like an exercise in memoir — as he goes back and forth between the Collyers and his own family — than about its subjects.
For those interested, I more solidly recommend Lidz' interview on the podcast Ephemeral, which covers the same information more tidily, and in a better order rather than flipping back and forth between the personal present and the subjects' past. I've no issue with memoir, but I didn't expect it here and it made for a less informative reading experience than I'd have liked.
For those interested, I more solidly recommend Lidz' interview on the podcast Ephemeral, which covers the same information more tidily, and in a better order rather than flipping back and forth between the personal present and the subjects' past. I've no issue with memoir, but I didn't expect it here and it made for a less informative reading experience than I'd have liked.