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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	:	Special 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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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

I enjoyed this book. The exploration of how an obsession can dictate a persons life is exceptional. That being said I must say I tired of the Horticultural explanations and descriptions. I did enjoy much of the history of the orchid.I also enjoyed the movie Adaptation. Inspired by the book but in noway an actual book made into movie. The Nicholas Cage characters are pure fiction the other characters are true to the book if not the true story.

A fine and colorful examination of a very idiosyncratic world - orchid collecting - with a lot of research and appreciation of the Florida landscape and the history of orchids and the region. The throughline is the truly unique John Laroche (played so memorably by Chris Cooper in Adaptation), but you might forget now and then because of Orlean's ADD as a writer, jumping over here, wandering off over there...

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

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

What can I say? One of the best books I've ever read, bar none. It is superlative and I cannot recommend it enough.

"This was the low, simmering part of the state, as quiet as a shrine except for crickets keeping time and the creak of trees bending and the crackly slam of a screen door and the clatter of a car now and then ...""We whipped past abandoned bungalows melting into woodpiles, and past NO TRESPASSING signs shot up like Swiss cheese, and past a rusty boat run aground on someone's driveway, and past fences leaning like old ladies, and then almost past a hand-lettered sign that interested Laroche, so