Sean's review
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
by Robert Sullivan
Sean's review
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan
Sean's review
rating:
recommended for: True New Yorkers
A good book with a great cover by Cooper Grad Peter Sis (also did the Whale seen on the new trains as part of the Arts for Transit program). Ah, if only everyone judged this book by its cover it would have done even better. Unfortunatelyl some smart people (unlike me) read reviews first.
The author, a layman takes on studying rats in New York by repeatedly visiting an alley that I myself have previously reported to 311 for Rat issues. There are lots of strange tid bits of information but also lots of dead ends to his tirades. To publish a book the author has added chapters on Plagues and other grotesque things in other cities which don't directly play into his New York theme. This weakens the book and these chapters fall in at strange intervals. I feel the volume could have been published just as easily without them.
He has a newer book on the Meadowlands. Although Rats left me a bit disappointed, and the afterword, more annoyed than anything, I'll pick it up mainly bec...more
The author, a layman takes on studying rats in New York by repeatedly visiting an alley that I myself have previously reported to 311 for Rat issues. There are lots of strange tid bits of information but also lots of dead ends to his tirades. To publish a book the author has added chapters on Plagues and other grotesque things in other cities which don't directly play into his New York theme. This weakens the book and these chapters fall in at strange intervals. I feel the volume could have been published just as easily without them.
He has a newer book on the Meadowlands. Although Rats left me a bit disappointed, and the afterword, more annoyed than anything, I'll pick it up mainly bec...more
