Triangle: the Fire that Changed America... is the most poorly written prose book I think I have ever read.
The author has apparently never heard of organizing facts and stories to put them in a sequential or topical order. One minute you're in the sequence of the fire from the point of view of a fireman, the next you're in Russia learning about anti-Semitic riots. Seriously don't ask me how the author put those together. Then it's another chapter before you actually get to the fire again. I think the author was using 6 degrees of separation to connect the victims to the entire world. Maybe. Who Knows. There was no direction in this book.
So painful to read. If you actually want useful information about this fire that happened in New York over 100 years ago, watch the PBS special on Netflix. You get all the PERTINENT information about this fire. Something this author has no idea how to do.
I'm not sure how I would ever recommend this book to anyone. Reading the dictionary would be more enlightening and interesting.
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