The story drew me in and held me spellbound throughout – couldn’t put this down . The book is written in great detail and information supported by letters/correspondence, which was interesting but also lead to a redundancy – likely more noticeable in audio format.
The author made the courageous and challenging effort to get into the tormented mind of Vincent from the inner view, the family response and the response from the public and strangers. In this valiant attempt though, I sensed a bias from the author that flip flopped; Vincent was portrayed as obsessive, persistent, manipulative and aggressive toward those close to him – clearly mentally unstable and family portrayed as victim. Yet when describing reaction of strangers toward similar behavior he was portrayed more sympathetically as a victim being misjudged by society. A flip flop bias played out by most of us in todays world.
Vincent remains a fantastic mystery. Can’t believe after reading 40+ hours of this life story, I left wanting to know more.