Pressed & Bound

Okay, I’ve been sitting on this review of The Gangs of New York for a little while now.  The first couple of drafts didn’t come out right.  I’ve been having a  time with this one, you could say.  The problem isn’t that it’s a very hard book to write about.  It just pissed me off.  I find it difficult to produce limpid, effortless prose when writing about things that piss me off.  My usually passable style descends to something only slightly more comprehensible than fevered text message jargon.  That being said, here are Gangs of New York and why it pissed me off!

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