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Book Review of What a Way to Go: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death

BethG avatar reviewed The ultimate finality in many forms on + 108 more book reviews
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I'm actually embarrassed that I found this book so interesting since it is so gruesome, but I did. It is hard to believe that humanity could turn its imagination to such uses.

Still, Mr. Abbott has done excellent research and presents the different horrors with a sense of humor that Hitchcock would enjoy. Give it a try. Maybe you can be fascinated and embarrassed, too.