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A review by mkinne
The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
1.0
What a slog this is - I may not finish. Fort builds his arguments slowly and the narrative thread is thin; his method is to convince the reader by overwhelming with similar data points - it is tiresome at best. There are a few nuggets and his outrage is entertaining (I keep thinking of Vizzini in the Princess Bride - "Inconceivable!" - for some reason). Fort's POV is interesting & worth considering but reading this makes me want to watch early episodes of The X-Files (which owes a lot to Fort/Fortean ideas), a much easier route to the similar conclusions.