A review by kwoolery08
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett

2.0

The premise was interesting, but the writing just wasn't up to par. It was very obvious that this was originally intended to be an article that was then turned into a book, because there wasn't enough there to fill out a full book. She certainly didn't seem to have a plan for the book beyond talking to Gilkey and then writing...something? A lot of it read like she just recounted her notes word for word rather than trying to tie everything together into a cohesive narrative. It also ended very abruptly, like she realized the story was going nowhere and just stopped. I was also very surprised to learn that she was a journalist well into her career, because she did not seem to be very good at journalism based on her description of what she was doing for the two years she was supposedly working on this book. All in all, this was pretty disappointing.