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Only for John Wick fans

Revisado: 01-24-25

If you liked John Wick movies you may like this, perhaps. For me, I'm only engaged enough to want to get to the end. But it's a hard slog; now only half paying attention. Everyone in this novel has too much information about too many things. Everyone makes stupid choices all the time. It reads like a Marvel comic from childhood. NSA behavior is especially comical. Reader is good except he makes the child even more annoying. 'Nuff said.

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Excellent thematic review of HRM's term

Revisado: 08-29-24

Glad McMaster took the time to prepare a balanced account. A good companion to Battlegrounds.

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Pop historian & conspiracy susceptible VJ team up

Revisado: 05-18-23

Some good segments throughout but in the end the narrative frays at the seams under the weight of the personal baggage of the two podcasters. As one example (from someone old enough to know): Nobody at the time thought the insult "Wacko Jacko" had anything simian about it and the suggestion is risible. The podcaster who immediately affirmed this is doing the linguistic equivalent of those people who see a bunch of numbers and assign a "conspiranoia" style connection between them. It tells you more about the bias and naivete of these two more than any other example; but it is by no means a singular illustration. Such leaps of foolishness appear throughout. Go ahead and listen but be skeptical. They are shaping a narrative shakily upon a weak foundation and beneath a leaky, ideologically burdened roof. It is certainly packaged well but scrape away this veneer of authority and you find a cheap historical presentism.

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Very enjoyable book

Revisado: 02-12-23

My mother passed away recently. She and I used to watch reruns of the MTM show together decades ago. Like Mary Tyler Moore she was a de facto feminist but eschewed the title as a lifelong Republican (notably she disliked Trump though). The book helped me imagine the show as she might have when she was younger. And I liked the narrator too. Highly recommend.

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Mantegna performance great as usual

Revisado: 01-07-23

Characters are cartoonish compared to the realism of a Michael Connelly novel. Ending is idiotic.

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Great but one concern

Revisado: 12-21-22

one of the best of the series. but
(mild spoiler)
why didn't Stone give his officers a picture of the likely suspects? Seems "uncoply" of him.

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Needs chapter heading. cheap but dry narration

Revisado: 02-24-22

Does not include the Great Gatsby.
Does include:
This Side of Paradise. The Beautiful and the Damned. The Mystery of Raymond Mortgage. Reade, Substitute Right Half. A Debt of Honor. The Room with the Green Blinds. A Luckless Santa Claus. Pain and the Scientist. The Trail of the Duke. Shadow Laurels. The Ordeal. Little Minnie McCloskey: A Story for Girls. The Old Frontiersman: A Story of the Frontier. The Diary of a Sophomore. The Prince of Pests: A Story of the War. Cedric the Stoker. The Spire and the Gargoyle. Tarquin of Cheapside 1917*. Babes in the Woods. Sentiment- And the use of Rouge. The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw. Porcelain and Pink. Head and Shoulders. Benediction. Dalyrimple Goes Wrong. Myra Meets His Family. Mister Icky. The Camels Back. Bernice Bobs her Hair. The Ice Palace. The Offshore Pirate. The Cut-Glass Bowl. The Four Fists. The Smilers. May Day. The Jelly-Bean. The Lee's of Happiness. Jemina. O Russet Witch! Tarquin of Cheapside 1922*. The Popular Girl. Two for a Cent. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. Winters Dreams.
*repeated story with different dates given

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good book, narration annoying

Revisado: 01-21-22

Fawas Gerges is very knowledgeable and a good writer. I found the narration well paced but with pronunciations that were frequently annoying.

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Read well by author.

Revisado: 08-26-20

Thank you to Bart Gellman for taking time to read his book. The book is a tour de force of ideas, explanation of complex topics and personal odyssey in which the author back traces his journey while taking us along with him.

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worst so far

Revisado: 08-08-16

Perhaps Parker was building a house or taking charge of a boyscout troop given the inane detail with which he tries the reader/listener's patience. The narrator is fine as usual. In fact he should have been awarded hazard pay or mental health benefits for this drudgery.

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