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cphenly 's review for:
The Last Days of Night
by Graham Moore
Read this for a book group. Would not have picked it up on my own, but it was pretty interesting. I didn't know anything about the "current wars," and if this book is anything close to historically accurate (and I believe that in essentials it is), then these people were just bad men! Cheating, back-stabbing, lying, even murdering over money, ideas, production of stuff (mainly lightbulbs), but mostly over money and ego. Thomas Edison was just not a nice guy! Neither was Westinghouse or his lawyer. And Nikola Tesla was one very strange bird. Gives you something to think about every time you turn on a light.
What kept me from rating it higher was that there are long stretches of quite tedious description/discourse/narrative that don't really add anything and which make the book too long. This story could have been told much more effectively in about 100 fewer pages. I was interested enough, nevertheless, to go get Moore's previous book, The Sherlockian from the library.
What kept me from rating it higher was that there are long stretches of quite tedious description/discourse/narrative that don't really add anything and which make the book too long. This story could have been told much more effectively in about 100 fewer pages. I was interested enough, nevertheless, to go get Moore's previous book, The Sherlockian from the library.