The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

2007 reading list (97 items)
list by chuckmuck

I really wanted to like this book, being a plant person with some interest in orchids and a small knowledge of their history. The book did have some interesting information, too bad it was buried in all the filler or repeated so many times you wondered if the book had an editor and if that editor bothered to read it or just skimmed through. I would think 1/3-1/2 could have been trimmed off and not... read more