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Rating:  - Depends on your level of interest.If you're hoping for a gripping tale of dark deeds and gaslight frolics, you might be disappointed. This is a serious-minded, scholarly work that lay-readers might see as hopelessly encumbered with statistics and repetitive exhibitions of factual evidence. There are overarching concepts, but there's no spellbinding narrative--this is not a story, it's a study. A such, it reads, at times, like an encyclopedia. I'm a professor and scholar myself (author of a few equally tedious tomes), so this shouldn't be taken as a criticism of Ekirch's book per se. If I were on a tenure board reviewing this work, I'd say it's an extremely cogent, well-researched book that does exactly what it should do. But if I take off my prof hat and play the part of the bookstore browser, looking for a titillating read, I'd say find something else. (Unless you're perversely interested in how far apart 17th-century Parisians strung their street-lanterns.) Rating:  - Loved this bookFor the last several weeks I have been aptly reading this book before I go to sleep. It is extremely entertaining if you find historical details and random historical facts about the goings on of people to be interesting you'll love this book. One of the best books I've read in months. Rating: - When night time was darkWithout electricity illuminating darkness how did our ancestors manage? At Day's Close, with wonderful details such as a first sleep and second sleep, shell path to the out house to "feel your way in the dark, brings us a look into night time when night time was dark. Evil did indeed lurk at night and leaving your house at night a dangerous trip. Great book. Rating: - Enjoyable and well researchedI read At Day's Close to assist with my studies at Oxford. I was very impressed by the quality of both the research and the writing. If you wish to read about what night in Europe was like before widespread artificial illumination and/or how artificial illumination changed life c 1750-1800, then this is a must read -- and an enjoyable one at that. Rating: - FascinatingThe author adds to, and brings together (with elaboration) a number of minimally reported facets of culture in earlier centuries, and presents a fascinating picture of life after dark before the advent of electricity. There is much here that relates to current day fears and habits that illuminates [pun intended] and explains why we do what we do at night. |
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