I had no idea that rat fighting was so popular, and would read a whole book on the subject. My favorite person he profiled was Kit Burns, who ran the most popular "rat fight bar" in NYC. The book goes into many fascinating tangents, including: a history of New York and its problems with trash, background on NYC's most succesful rat exterminator, the history of rat fights and the man that set out to stop them, and an "exterminator guru" whose calendar is set in stone for years in advance for consulting work with big extermination companies.Īll of these tangents are well researched, and the people this guy talks to have colorful personalities. The book is really two books interspersed with each other - one book following his nights in that alley, and another book following his path of research into rat history. This included sitting in one alley almost every night during that year, keeping a journal and performing harmless experiments on a large group of inner-city rats. It was not written by a scientist, just a guy who took on a major fascination with rats and wanted to research them for a year. Rats is a book about rats, in a broad sense. I just finished a book that I really liked, and here's my attempt to get you to read it. "Science books that aren't boring" is how I describe it to my friends.
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