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The Secret Lives Of Buildings: From The Ruins Of The Parthenon To The Vegas Strip In Thirteen Stories (2009)

by Edward Hollis(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0805087850 (ISBN13: 9780805087857)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Metropolitan Books

review 1: Well this is a perfectly fine piece of non fiction. My biggest complaint was the vaulted language. The author's love of architecture and history comes through, but in the end I felt like this book was a little light on details. I wouldn't call it dense. Rather than feeling informed about a fascinating topic, I felt like I got enough of a taste to want to seek out a better book with more information now that I have a broad understanding of the changing role of the buildings in the book. The narrative presents a fascinating concept, and the stories are at times engaging, but I expected a little more meat than I got here.
review 2: Secret Lives reminds me of Cod, by Kurlansky, or Omnivoure's Dilemma, by Pollan. It has changed my world view by picking out a de... moretail with care and diligent research and much thought of something that I had taken for granted, meaning not given any thought of my own on. I had to go to the internet several times to find out more because it just piqued my curiosity so much. I have to say I have a new appreciation of history, religion, sociology, politics because of this book. And often that appreciation is, somewhat shockingly, contempt. I recommend this book. less

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