A review by ikahime
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey

2.0

Dear lord, I couldn't make it past the 3rd chapter. I felt as though I was reading an old Victorian account of skullduggery instead of a modern memoir published in 2008. I looked for some videos of Fortey, to give him another chance, but his tale of a magical trilobite was a snoozer at best. At times I could easily imagine the tweed-jacketed author clapping me on the back with a "jolly good ripper, eh sport?" while tugging on his pipeful of Erinmore Mixture and resting his arm on a burgeoning mantle of trilobite fossils while I desperately searched for the exit.