Ten Days in a Mad-House

The concept is great, but there are a few detractors. There are errors that the editor or the letterer should have spotted such as words being out of order in a sentence. Some transitions seemed abrupt or out of nowhere. In the edition I read the very first page isn't a title page it's a (mock?) ad for corsets, which is fine but it would have been better – and made more sense– if there were additional ‘ads' throughout the book, giving it the feeling of being read in a newspaper, but because there was only one, and its placement, it falls flat.

I do appreciate being able to read this adapted work of Nellie Bly. Perhaps I'll seek out another version or the original. I think this is important. Last weekend while visiting with an aunt she said she thinks that we should ‘bring back' mental asylums, so I mentioned that I was reading this. I agree with her that there should be more places that are accessible that help people recover, but that they need oversight and then another aunt and I brought up the abuse that occurs at care homes for the elderly. obviously mental asylums (or rather Psychiatric hospital) still exist, it just seems that every so often the news covers the closing of one and it seems like they're disappearing. Also addiction recovery facilities all seem to report something like 80+% recovery rate but are usually less effective than that.