A review by gbliss
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler

4.0

In some ways, three books in one. The first feels like a delightful, long form New Yorker article. This is full of energy, ideas, and spirit. The second is less a notably less compelling history of the private collection turned museum. This section has its moments, but nothing approaching the charm of the first section. The third "book" would be the notes to the second section. These are pedantic and sometimes just plain dull. But maybe that is the point. Just as the Museum of Jurrassic Technology is a sort of ironic museum about museums, maybe this book is an ironic commentary on the nature of academic writing, the way scholarship inevitably descends into minutiae, and the accumulation of so much information leading to the inevitable conclusion that the truth can't really be known or contained.

Or not.