Title: A quick-read; diverting and somewhat disturbing.
Product review: The subtitle is apt: "A Tale..." Simon Winchester tells a story that is "a fine conjunction" of three entities (Murray, Minor and the OED). Initially put off by the frankly scary details of Minor's problems, I finally began to enjoy the book and was awed by Winchester's telling of how Dr. Minor endured his years at Broadmoor.Therefore this was not only a story, a true if possibly embellished story, but an insight to the life of an intelligent, disturbed man forever incarcerated.And although I have no quibbles about the bulk of Winchester's content, I don't really think we needed to read the specifics in the chapter entitled "The Unkindest Cut." This marred a telling that had otherwise not indulged in shock exploitation of the book's subject.
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