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Very Disappointing -- Vastly Overwritten
I suppose mine is a minority opinion. It was tough plowing through this overwritten book. No note card failed to find its way into this book, and no fact was too tangential to include. The author's use of first-person narration and her (to my mind) sentimental and juvenile observations on this or that were cloying. If one wants to know nearly every conceivable fact about the LA library system and its history and many of its staff, this is the place to look. Students of arson may also find pages of interest here. This general reader -- who loves and is interested in libraries as institutions -- was disappointed.
