Title: A Soggy Experience
Product review: On the one hand, I found certain aspects of this book interesting, mainly because I was woefully ignorant of TR's history, but I actually found out little about him, but much about his co-explorer, Rondon. The author's credentials as a writer of National Geographic articles and such is impressive but she knows little about non-fiction writing. She puts words in her character's mouths and attributes thoughts to them that I'm sure they never knew they had. As I understand it, this is a no-no in non-fiction writing and destroys the faith of the reader. None of her characters are believable. Her research was obviously extensive, but she will go off at annoying tangents, such as when she fancies herself a geologist for pages and pages, telling the reader about the earth's origins at exhaustive length. I am reading this for a book group, but I felt my progress was plodding and the book was only intermittently acceptable. Too many glaring faults for me.
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