Review: Reads a bit like a Textbook
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2014
For me this book read like a textbook. It was full of names and facts and dates, and while I usually retain quite a bit from my reading, there isn't a whole lot of specific details about this book that I could tell you at this point. It seems to be very well researched (although I'm not an expert on the history of Reno so it might all be BS for all I really know) and I imagine there may be a time in the future where one of the facts I learned from this book will randomly be useful to me. The writing style, while droll, was pretty clear and concise for the most part. I could have done without most of the author's random comments, although some of them were pretty funny. For what it is, this book was okay.I think the research that went into this book, and the information obtained from it, could make for a great historical fiction novel or possibly a fictional memoir from the POV of one of the leading figures in Reno. Wingfield would be a great candidate for that. Had this book read more like a story and less like a text book for me, I would have enjoyed it much more, and actually retained more of the information (just the way my brain works). Ultimately, the book isn't bad, but for me it wasn't great.Copy of this book was received through the Goodreads First Reads giveaway program.