Strange Buildings

this book is an exercise in suspending one’s disbelief. the whole book is just the author and his acquaintances speculating and running wild with theories they came up on their own with zero proof most of the time. it’s very much all tell and not show.

i wasn’t all that impressed by the author’s previous books either but he (or his fictionalised self) is particularly dislikable in this one. he approaches the survivors for interviews while lying about his intentions just to satiate his curiosity, often without any consideration for the victims. in a way he’s also profiting off of their traumas, since he published a book about all these cases.