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  • IWW4@lemmy.zipOPtoBooks@lemmy.worldRecommendation The Alienist
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    15 hours ago

    Like I said I didn’t finish the first season so I don’t have a complete opinion of the show.

    The book like all written work has the ability to use unlimited narration. Movies and TV shows have to use it sparingly.

    The book is historical fiction so it dedicated a lot of time to the historical aspects of the city the people and what was going on.

    The basic story is the same. The shrink and his team are investigating a series of gruesome murders of boy prostitutes. The book does a great job of illustrating how that runs into social issues, the primative nature of police work at that time. The two police who are brothers work a lot on the forensic aspects of the crimes which were either ignored or discounted by police at that time. Also some of the experiments done in the book were just false science and the book explained that.

    The show was more focused on the interpersonal relationships of the characters.

    The show just didn’t captivate me the way the book did. That may have a lot to do with me reading the book first long before the show was made.












  • I don’t know if they still do them or not, but Phillip Morris used to do tours of their factory outside Petersburg VA.

    I did the tour as part of class I was taking. It was interesting to see how cigarettes were made. One thing the tour guide kept stressing was all these perks and things they did to make the work less boing/miserable for the workers.

    • The company put a lot of effort into sound suppression systems so the staff aren’t pommeled with harsh sound all day.
    • The company had multiple small lunch and break rooms so people could get a bit of privacy if they wanted.
    • The rotated staff on the machines so they don’t go insane with the boredom.

    As a college kid you are just learning about the world so while I knew people smoked and back then smoking was a lot more in your face.

    I really didn’t get how many people smoked until I saw that factory. It was staggering how many cigarettes were in at places and how many that factory churned out daily.