A review by ewg109
The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity by Richard Todd

4.0

Wow. This was a fascinating book that is impossible to explain. Todd examines the natures of things, places, and experience to try and understand what is real. What makes the actual Mona Lisa better than an exact duplicate? How does place define us and how do we define place? Fascinating stuff. But, the beauty of the book is that its not written in the voice of a sneering intellectual, rather Todd sounds kind of like the idealized Grandpa.