Reviews for The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses

The average rating for The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-10-02 00:00:00 Thomas Morlock For the type of book this is, it's amazing and must have taken years to collect the information and stories within. The author has spent years visiting lighthouses and has owned cat for decades. Of course, cats were one species kept as pets with jobs at lighthouses. There were dogs, mules, horses, cows (for milk), chickens, geese, goats, sheep and others. Then there are the bird stories about wild birds and how they are attracted to lighthouses. There are stories of sea life, reptiles, rats, snakes, and more. The stories are told in paragraphs or pages, not separate stories as chapters. The book is organized loosely by subject or animal. It's more than you imagined to learn about lighthouses, their keepers, and animals, both pets and wild.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-10-19 00:00:00 Joseph Quirk I SO wanted to like this book. After all, it's Tony Visconti, producer and engineer extraordinaire. But this book needed an editor, BADLY! It's full of "facts" a Brooklyn Boy would know, like "the Statue of Liberty is in Staten Island" -- whoops! -- it's on Ellis Island, which he later describes his family coming through on their arrival from Italy. And I know of no Brooklyn boy who writes with the British spellings of words like colour, programme, odour, etc. Not to mention using "flat" for apartment, "go to hospital", things like that. Am I being petty? Perhaps, but here, it only sounds pretentious. But it's worse. How about "Before he passed away, I worked with Marc Bolan ... before his death in a terrible car accident." I had to force myself through the poor writing to hear about my favourite (oops) favorite rock stars, and finally started skipping over stories about his many wives and bands I've never heard of that he made sound brilliant by playing bass for them and singing background. And his constant dissing of Marc Bolan (who after all, suffered a terrible death before he died), and omission of more important players (such as Mick Ronson, who was given a mere mention here and there) I found appalling. Great producer, lousy writer.