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An amazing story. Looking forward to a second Audio version with great actors.

Revisado: 03-11-21

This is such an amazing undertaking and ads so much depth to the historical record of the relationship both from a human and spiritual perspective.

A second Audio version should be commissioned, though. I’d love to hear it done by an ensemble whose acting skills are at the level of the Shadowlands film. I see many of us feel similarly regarding the performance.

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ironically, not helpful to the intended cause

Revisado: 08-13-20

Some have said this was written by Harry and Meghan, and that seems true given the one sided telling of their experiences.

I also felt unnerved reading this given how much this brings into focus the blatant wealth inequality of royals and their celebrity friends alike.

I am not an anti-royalist, just an anti wealth hoarding realist.

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Great Book; Slow down the narrator

Revisado: 06-01-20

Had to slow down the narrator to .9. Then it’s listenable. The story is great. Not a straight bio though. Sounds more like a third person poetic memoir.

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Glossy with little depth

Revisado: 07-28-19

Glossy with little depth. Queen caked in makeup. Prefer a critical bio which this isn’t.

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Profoundly inspirational

Revisado: 07-30-18

Highly recommend to anyone who loves Paul Simon’s music, is a creative person of any kind, and wants to understand his creative process. It also illustrates how marriage, even for a good person, doesn’t always work the first or even second time around but can when you meet the right person. Found the audio narration clear but too stoic and emotionally invariant, perhaps by design but I’m wondering if a different reader would bring the words, especially song lyrics to life. Even better would be to have Paul Simon read his own statements and lyrics.

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Great bio of Queen Mother but too official

Revisado: 06-25-18

The good: detailed bio. Fills in some of the background missing from other books, films and videos. Clearly narrated with cute interjections of different actors playing the characters like the Queen Mother.

The bit strange: so little real detail about the relationship of the Queen Mother with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. It feels like a lot of this content was intentionally left out or cut.

The stultified: a bit condescending culturally to contemporary British popular culture.

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Great and read more about her

Revisado: 02-26-18

As a book that focus on Maeleine’s younger life it’s excellent. A moving tribute by her granddaughters.

Consider reading her autobiography as well.

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A bit too colorized a portrait

Revisado: 06-13-17

Sometimes a generous and dignified portrait such as this misses it's most noble attribution by glossing over the more arduous parts of the hero's journey.

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Makes me wish Ian Fleming wrote it

Revisado: 07-23-16

A very accurate Bio of Dusko Popov who was Ian Fleming's true to life inspiration for James Bond. Larry Loftis' portrait is in depth and accurate at a level even beyond scholarly. But for me this work doesn't have the color and passion of Fleming's writing. It's good to read though for a view into this amazing life of a very real spy, for yet another WWII experience and perspective, and for an appreciation of Fleming's ability to create his character and settings from this real person and actual places.

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A great history lesson that devolves into an anti-sermon

Revisado: 02-08-16

A great history lesson that devolves into an anti-sermon.

What does that mean?

We are completely immerse in our western history, particularly Roman Catholic History, with extreme detail. It's all jaw dropping stuff until his conclusions. these are sadly from the point of view of someone who as a humanist turns his findings into a case against religion. The author tells us to open our minds to escape our beliefs but only to encase us again in his own humanist evangelism, which is still a belief and in the end no less a religion.

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