I came to Frank Norris' 1899 novel, McTeague, in a very roundabout fashion. I was reading one of the late Kage Baker's Company novels, in which cyborgs rescue and preserve history and nature's treasures for the future. The cyborgs gather to watch the lost eight hour version of Eric von Stroheim's Gr...
Overall this was a very good book. At some points it began annoying me because the author used repetition to demonstrate several characters obsession with money and gold. Once I was able to put that in the background, the story itself was very enjoyable. It also picked up considerably in the second ...
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