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Title: Too much details
Review: After having finished a 1200 page copy of Mailer's "Harlot's Ghost", I was in the mood for another "big one" and started "Passions of the mind". At first I liked the description of (life in) 19th century Vienna and the start of the career of young Sigmund Freud. But with each page the enormous amount of details (on streets, towns, persons, cases) started to suffocate the story untill I lost all interest in the passionate mind of Freud. Just because I don't like to quit a book somewhere in the middle (and still have hope that it might get better) I finshed it. Interestingly, in the acknowledgements Stone thanks his editor (his wife) for reducing the original amount of pages to the half and thereby making the book twice as readable. I wish she had given the book that treatment a second time, maybe then it would have been really readable.....
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