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A review by spacenoirdetective
The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, Kevin Starr
2.0
This is not a well written book, but historically it was important for getting people to hate the railroad barons um....more than they already did.
At one point a woman starves to death for something like twenty pages. That's almost all I can remember. This whole fucking book has little point other than RAILROAD BAD. The railroad expands and people go about their piddly lives and then a bunch of people get screwed over but it's sooo hamfisted. Norris was not a fan of subtlety. Too bad a great point couldn't be coupled with good characters or interesting plot.
At one point a woman starves to death for something like twenty pages. That's almost all I can remember. This whole fucking book has little point other than RAILROAD BAD. The railroad expands and people go about their piddly lives and then a bunch of people get screwed over but it's sooo hamfisted. Norris was not a fan of subtlety. Too bad a great point couldn't be coupled with good characters or interesting plot.