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Title: Fascinating subject derailed by self-indulgent author
Review: This is totally the sort of book I'd go for: arcane and quirky. I adore the subject. Yet Harvey's hopeless writing makes a mess of things. I beg to differ with the review who calls this book "exquisitely written." It's full of verbiage, hyperbolic prose, overstuffed with description, and it just gets on your nerves. Case in point: "the winds of doom seemed to be shrieking through that library, swirling and shrieking." A tad melodramatic, maybe? Just maybe?Just when Harvey starts sticking to his subject, and the story gets interesting again, he derails it with some self-indulgent, totally uninteresting discussion of his personal life, or waxes eloquent about Greek myth. You can seem him trying to be snappy and catchy with his prose, but it just end up as useless melodrama.Obviously the author has a knack for finding good stories, but he needs to take himself less seriously as a writer, because he's not nearly as good as he thinks he is.
