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Carregando... Ghosty Men : The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders : An Urban Historicalde Franz Lidz
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I loved reading about the history of the Collyer brothers and the history of Brooklyn; however, the story was a bit confusing at times. The author's uncle had the same hoarding illness as the Collyer brothers. During the story he would flip back and forth between his family and the Collyer brothers. I was difficult at times to keep up with which family he was writing about. 5141. Ghosty Men The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders An Urban Historical by Franz Lidz (read 29 Mar 2014) This tells of the Collyer Brothers who died in 1947 in their junk-filled four-story home in Harlem in New York. I have long been interested in this amazing event, and read on 11 Jan 2004 with appreciation Marcia Davenport's novel, My Brother's Keeper, based on the weird happening. This book is true, but tells the story mixed with humor and also tells of the author's nutty uncles, who also collected junk. There are humorous events, mostly about the author's uncles, and I found I resented that story being mixed in with the Collyer story. One stands in amazement that the frightful conditions existing in the Collyer home persisted as long as they did. I have known of situations of people living in junk-infested homes and they have been forcibly removed because they were a danger to themselves--as the Collyer brothers certainly were. On the other hand, one should not find a person mentally ill just because they have an unusual attitude to the way they want to live. But at some point society failed the Collyer brothers in letting them endanger and then lose their lives in the junk which filled their huge home. I would have preferred a more documentary type book, and some pictures of the people and the home would have been welcome. This short book is a good, not great, introduction to the fascinating Collyer brothers of Harlem, who mesmerized New York in the 1930s and 40s with their extreme eccentricities and mysterious house. Turned out the house was filled with well over 120 tons of junk. Lidz spends 40% of the book discussing his own uncle, also a hoarder, as a means of getting inside the heads of these long-dead men, who left no biographies. It doesn't quite work. A fuller story waits to be told about Homer and Langley Collyer. This provides just enough to leave this reader wanting more. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML: A true tale of changing New York by Franz Lidz, whose Unstrung Heroes is a classic of hoarder lore. Homer and Langley Collyer moved into their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. By 1947, however, when the fire department had to carry Homer's body out of the house he hadn't left in twenty years, the neighborhood had degentrified, and their house was a fortress of junk: in an attempt to preserve the past, Homer and Langley held on to everything they touched. The scandal of Homer's discovery, the story of his life, and the search for Langley, who was missing at the time, rocked the city; the story was on the front page of every newspaper for weeks. A quintessential New York story of quintessential New York characters, Ghosty Men is a perfect fit for Bloomsbury's Urban Historicals series. Praise for Unstrung Heroes: "Unusual and affecting...[a] melancholy, funny book, a loony tune played with touching disharmony..."-New York Times. A quintessential New York story of quintessential New York characters. .Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Additionally, the book was poorly written - it was difficulty to stay with the author since the paragraphs were dysjunctive and at times, nearly incoherent.
Now that I'm writing this review, I think I'll have to reduce my rating to 2 stars. ( )