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The Lost Tribe of Coney Island Headhunters Luna Park and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century Claire Prentice 9780544262287 Books

******NO SPOILERS REVIEW******
This is a fascinating true story, but the telling suffers at the skill of the writer. It seems that Prentice wasn't quite sure how to open or close the book. So, she starts with a 7 page list of characters and paragraphs of each one. This is totally superfluous, as the characters are adequately introduced as they enter the story. Am I really to remember the details of the minor character Antoinette Funk from this list list until she actually appears in the book on page 249? The book ends in the same, weird way. Again, there is a list of the main players with paragraphs explaining what happened to them after the story. A more experienced writer would have interwoven the details of the minor characters' fate into the book as they naturally left the story and figured out a way to close in an actual chapter with the main characters.

Still, once it really gets going (it's a long wait), there are lots of surprises and it turns into a terrific read for those interested in recent history, crime and, to a certain extent, anthropology. It felt like it took forever to read, but I still recommend it. I give it 3 stars for execution, but a full 5 stars for subject, leaving us with 4 stars.


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The Lost Tribe of Coney Island Headhunters Luna Park and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century Claire Prentice 9780544262287 Books Reviews

Interesting book about something I knew nothing about. The writing style is more of a historical novel than just a factual book, and as such it has a fairly fast pace and is engaging.

In terms of the actual content of the Lost Tribe, it gets depressing what was going on later on, after their initial arrival in Luna Park.

The book is fascinating for what you learn about America at the time. The places (think of Luna Park as being the Disneyland of its day), people and how the Iggorate held up under some very depressing situations.
The author obviously did tons of research. It was interesting--I never knew anything about this incident with the Igorrotes. I'm surprised it's so hidden in history. The first half of the book moved along, but into the second half, it got so dragged out with details of the many trials. After what Truman Hunt did, I don't see how he could've looked at himself in the mirror in the morning. I did like the author's notes at the end that explained what happened (or maybe happened) to the characters.
An informative research. It is not a tedious book and will keep your interest. An event that shd have been recognized in the history of Coney Island and other places visited by the tribe. Again greed exploiting the innocent is at play in this factual account.
The first half of this book was fast paced and very interesting. Then it bogged down. The court room parts were slow and boring and the book just abruptly ends. The author did provide an epilogue with what happened to the characters after the story ended but some of those characters I did not even remember from the book. I did enjoy seeing the old time pictures provided at the beginning of the chapters but I did not walk away from this book satisfied.
This book is simply incredible. The author has discovered a forgotten historical event, and turned it into an engaging, stranger than fiction, book. I was not only thoroughly entertained, but also feel like I learned a lot about the culture of the period. One gripe is that the author sometimes seems to be taking liberties in assuming what the "characters" in the book were thinking. This seemed a bit odd for a nonfiction book. It would have been inexcusable if the book were covering major historical figures or events. But since this book is almost like a novel (albeit a novel describing real events in a lost era), I got used to the slightly fictionalized style.
Reading about the turn of the century Coney Island was a treat! Well researched, strong characters and it flowed like a novel. I felt like I was there, on the various entrances of the places the lost tribes exhibited.

With the fresh eyes of 2018, it is inhumane to think this happened to people of the world. But mans greed often wins over the backs of our fellow,humans.

I usually leave 5 stars for literary masterpieces, but this book had me hooked. I could,not put it down. Highly recommend if you want to travel back to the turn of the last century, and experience, an adventure.
In this day and age, when even <i>The Greatest Show on Earth</i> is promising to quit exhibiting elephants for fun and profit; it’s difficult to get one’s head around a time—just a little more than a century ago—when <i>human zoos</i> were the most popular attractions at carnivals, fairs and amusement parks. THE LOST TRIBE OF CONEY ISLAND Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century, by Claire Prentice is a poignant look at that era.

The goodreads.com synopsis of this book says, in part, “Readers of Erik Larson will love this tale of sex, greed, and the American dream…” I am a reader, and a fan, of Eric Larson, and, although the writing isn’t really up to Larson’s caliber, but for the overwhelming sadness of the cruel and ruthless victimization of the fifty-one, gullible and defenseless Bontoc Igorrotes Filipinos, whose story this is, I did quite enjoy the glimpses of history and culture of this tale.

What I don’t understand is why this <i>tribe</i> of <i>“headhunting, dog-eating savages”</i> didn’t lop off the head of the perfidious, self-delusional, huckster Truman K. Hall. I <i>might</i> have cheered, if they had.

Recommendation It’s a bit of a slog in places, but worth the effort.

edition, 390 pages
******NO SPOILERS REVIEW******
This is a fascinating true story, but the telling suffers at the skill of the writer. It seems that Prentice wasn't quite sure how to open or close the book. So, she starts with a 7 page list of characters and paragraphs of each one. This is totally superfluous, as the characters are adequately introduced as they enter the story. Am I really to remember the details of the minor character Antoinette Funk from this list list until she actually appears in the book on page 249? The book ends in the same, weird way. Again, there is a list of the main players with paragraphs explaining what happened to them after the story. A more experienced writer would have interwoven the details of the minor characters' fate into the book as they naturally left the story and figured out a way to close in an actual chapter with the main characters.

Still, once it really gets going (it's a long wait), there are lots of surprises and it turns into a terrific read for those interested in recent history, crime and, to a certain extent, anthropology. It felt like it took forever to read, but I still recommend it. I give it 3 stars for execution, but a full 5 stars for subject, leaving us with 4 stars.