Review by sariene - The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

A review by sariene
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

2.0

I really wanted to like this book. The subject matter is perfectly up my alley, but this is just so poorly written that I couldn't enjoy it. The story he's ostensibly telling is a good one, and deserves a better treatment than it gets here. This telling is unfocused and mostly off-topic, not to mention that the author seems puffed up and writes in a much more grandiose and ostentatious tone than is necessary. Very disappointed.

A review by sariene The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

A review by sariene
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson