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Review title: OK, Not Great
Product review: I can't confirm the plaudits that have followed this book. It has an interesting hook, putting the modern notion of "profiling" into the ahistorical context of 1896. And the references to old New York piqued my interest and made me drag out my copy of Scorsese's "Gangs of New York." But overall, The Alienist read like a mediocre Hollywood psychological thriller.Frankly I am amazed it has not yet been made into a film as it would perfectly play on the big screen. A pitch must have already been made: "All right, get this. It's like Silence of the Lambs crossed with Gangs of New York. A psychologist with revolutionary ideas - I'm thinking Johnny Depp - assembles a team of amateur detectives to catch a Jack the Ripper clone in New York in 1896. And it has Teddy Roosevelt in it!"Not that any of the modern teenage audience would know who Teddy Roosevelt was.It's ok. Just nothing incredible.
