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"A fascinating journey through the world of plants, from the beneficial to the deadly."
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"Every mortal should read this book, before they find themselves in its pages."

Daniel Handler

Author of A Series of Unfortunate Events (as Lemony Snicket)

on Final Exits

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"This endlessly fascinating, often amusing, and always riveting book is the perfect gift for all of your morbid, twisted, or at least curious friends."

Peter Straub

2005 Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award

on Final Exits

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"Final Exits is gross and engrossing... A well-researched historical perspective on death."

Wendy Northcutt

Author of The Darwin Awards

on Final Exits

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"Michael Largo Is A Curator Of Death... you will enjoy the detailed descriptions of suicide, overdose, and otherwise untimely demise."

Esquire

on Genius and Heroin

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"Largo has now become the Capote of kaput."

Atlanta Journal Constitution

on Genius and Heroin

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"Absurdly entertaining."

Los Angeles Times

on Genius and Heroin

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"Meticulous, fascinating, and often intriguingly bizarre.... I am full of admiration for Michael Largo's achievement."

Simon Winchester

Author of The Professor and the Madman

on Genius and Heroin

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"Genius and Heroin makes for mad good reading on the divinely inspired, hopelessly self-destructive class."
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"For the obsessive-compulsive teen in everyone."

Publisher's Weekly

on Genius and Heroin

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"A fascinating compendium of famous deaths that will keep you reading long into the night."

The New York Times

on The Portable Obituary

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"An encyclopedic romp through religious history's strangest characters."

Kirkus Reviews

on God's Lunatics

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Award-Winning Work

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Bram Stoker Award Winner

Superior Achievement in Nonfiction

Final Exits (2006)

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Bram Stoker Award Finalist

Nonfiction Category

The Portable Obituary (2007)