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Title: After The Professor and the Madman I expected better
Review: Since I had absolutely loved a previous book by Winchester I really expected this to be a continuous page turner, something that immersed me in a place, a time, introduced interesting characters forgotten in history or something...Instead this book felt padded. Massively so, with chapters devoted to all kinds of minutia that really wasn't related to the incidents of that day or its aftermath. I would ask the people writing the positive reviews of this book if they felt that given a ruthless editor who made Winchester remove a full 1/3rd of all the pages, if they don't think it would have made a much more interesting book.
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