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The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

Susan Orlean

Paperback | Pages: 284 pages

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Original Title:	The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
ISBN:	044900371X (ISBN13: 9780449003718)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Florida(United States) Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve, Florida(United States)

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The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the reader—will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion.   In this new edition, coming fifteen years after its initial publication and twenty years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable world, and the route by which it was brought to the screen in the film Adaptation, in a new retrospective essay.

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Title	:	The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
Author	:	Susan Orlean
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 284 pages
Published	:	January 4th 2000 by Ballantine Books (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Crime. True Crime. Biography. Science. Environment. Nature. Writing. Journalism

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Ratings: 3.69 From 14083 Users | 1487 Reviews

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The Orchid Thief by Susan OrleanA while back when I blogged about reading and enjoying WINGED OBSESSION, Jessica Speart s compelling work of narrative nonfiction about an exotic butterfly collector and the fish and wildlife agent obsessed with bringing him to justice, a few people who commented wanted to make sure Id also read Susan Orleans THE ORCHID THIEF. I hadnt, but somehow, that book never rose to the top of my to-read list. I wasnt all that into orchids, so I wasnt sure it was for me.

Number one: don't judge this book by the movie Adaptation, which is not a screenplay of the book, but rather a screenplay that contains pieces of the book. Number two, my favorite quote: "The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people, too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world

This was originally a piece for The New Yorker, and I think it should've stayed that way. It had its interesting moments but felt a bit bloated and directionless at times. I was expecting something more narrative-based and eccentric like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Instead every chapter just sort of felt like an essay about something related to the orchid industry, with a very small throughline about John Laroche. 2.5 stars

Was very informative about orchids and the obsessed people who collect them. From the ways that people obtained then, to the shows, to the customers, to even the great lengths in which people would go to get them. Such a crazy thing to collect and spend money on.

The writing is great, especially for nonfiction. The people she writes about are fascinating, even when Orlean is writing about past people she hasn't met. She definitely manages to convey the excitement these people feel for orchids- all of the sudden I am super interested in orchids too and googling them. I really want a monkey orchid now, though I'm not good at keeping any plants alive so I probably shouldn't pursue that interest. Florida, in particular the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve,

gorgeous. susan orlean is the writer i strive to be.

Rex Stouts fat detective suffered from orchidelirium. He would never vary his routine of working in his famous plant rooms on the top floor of the brownstone house no matter what the emergency, to Archie Goodwins consternation. Like bibliomania, orchidelirium is a mania that involves collecting unlimited collecting. The orchid is a jewel of a flower on a haystack of a plant. Orchids have evolved into the biggest flowering plant family on earth, and many survive only in small niches they have