This is the kind of book you start and then maybe stop because you think...."what kind of kook thought up this plot?" Then you look again and realize this is nonfiction. Yes, this is all stuff that ACTUALLY happened. After that, you can't really stop reading until you are done because it is all so odd. Obsession is in the title but people who steal birds...dead of alive, to harvest their feathers to tie Victorian age flies, the kind you go fishing with, prove themselves obsessive in many different ways. The main subject is Edwin Rist, a 21-year old flutist who steals a suitcase full of dead birds from a well respected natural history museum. When the crime is solved, he gets off with no jail time despite the value of what he stole after being examined by the cousin of comedian Sasha Baron-Cohen, himself a clinical psychologist who thinks Edwin is autistic. Who could make this up? As I read, I kept thinking truth really is stranger than fiction. Perfectly read by MacLeod Andrews.
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