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The Best of Its Kind,
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This review is from: Savage Grace (Mass Market Paperback)
To be fair about it, I should say that I have not read a lot of true stories of bloodshed and sleaze and incest among the very-very rich, but this is the best that I have ever read. It is very well-written and superbly researched, and paints as full a picture of the glamorous and twisted life of the Baekeland family as one could possibly have hoped for. Grandpa invented the first really useful plastic, and his heirs proceeded to slide into a life of riches, luxury, and moral decay. I liked this book so much that I made a point of visiting the town in Catalunya where much of it takes place. This is truly a poignant and powerful narrative, one that deserves to be reprinted for many years to come.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Poorly, lazily written.,
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I bought the book after having seen the movie and been intrigued by the story. However, the book is very disappointing. I have not been able to get through it, due to the sturcture and writing of the book. To begin with, there is hardly any narrative. All the authors have done is to display interviews of various people intersperced with police and court reports. The reader must look up each interviewee's name in the index; however, many of them are not in the index in back of the book, which leads the reader to the question: "who is this person anyway"?
What could have been a very compelling book becomes more of an outline or a report. The authors either were too lazy or too unskilled as writers to make a narrative out of this very multi-layered story, which really is a disservice to the telling of this tale.
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poorly written,
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This review is from: Savage Grace (Hardcover)
The subject material was realy good; but there was no continuity (chronilogically) which made this a very difficult book to read
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