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Title: The Book of Falling Quality
Review: Berendt's writing style is engaging as always, but the book is so unfocussed that it is more confusing than readable. Instead of concentrating on a single crime/scandal, and then spiraling outwards from that (which he did remarkably well in his first book), this book bounces around between several notorious deeds spread across large expanses of time, and all of them are chronicled to wildly varying degrees -- and some have questionable "conclusions" and some are just abandoned in the middle of the book and never mentioned or concluded in any fashion.
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