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Fun view into their creative lives

Revisado: 11-30-23

A good history of the band and the New Wave and their closest compatriots, but dragged down by ceaseless name dropping. A thousand names, of which 5% were an interesting connection. Otherwise just obscure references with meaningless context.

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Ruined by a need to demonstrate the author’s wildness.

Revisado: 10-04-23

A lot of time spent describing why America has been a nation of haters, in the author’s opinion. Glad I only spent $5!

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Read the hard copy

Revisado: 08-11-22

The reader has an awful intonation emphasizing the wrong syllables and are constant, jarring and clumsy. Simplest and most repeated: PO-lice, TEE-v, JEW-ly. Verging on torture. Don’t put yourself through the listen.

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Just putrid on every level

Revisado: 01-03-22

Probably a story in there if an editor had helped. Otherwise just a trash tale badly written.

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Great telling of a fascinating case

Revisado: 08-31-21

As many awful secrets in small towns and rural hamlets as in a city.
The presentation here is a great true crime story. On one hand, we want to believe the accusation of innocent Melanie and hate her stepfather, but it never got beyond accusation. So any sense of retribution from the murder is tempered.
I keep wondering if police had investigated Paquette after his death based on the counselor’s notification of Melanie’s complaint to see if he had a history of sex crime, would such proof have created more justification in the public’s mind for Eric’s and Melanie’s crimes.

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A dull story

Revisado: 06-28-21

Instead, read his brother’s marvelous memoir, ‘The Duke Of Deception’. Geoffrey Wolff’s story is far more engaging and still captures the lurid family history of father, mother, sons and ancestors.

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Superb entertainment

Revisado: 08-27-20

A wonderful work of business and petroleum history in Texas with portraits of the great figures, brilliant and mad!

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Hurt hurts

Revisado: 05-27-20

I thought it might be a great listen as a fan of Hurt but it really was insufferable in the end.
I was ok until the immensely grating Mike was introduced. Some of Hemingway’s worst dialogue, repetitive and dumb. With Hurt reading Mike as a drunk Scotsman, it was torture.

I think I last read this in high school and this confirmed for me that Fitzgerald is so much better.

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Questionable work by the ghost writer

Revisado: 04-19-20

Says the Japanese were firing a 155mm at the author from close range? They did not use 155mm And it’s strictly a long range cannon anyway. No artillery officer would imagine this

First the author has it as a battery of 105 mm then a few lines later it turns into a 155mm battery, then back to 105mm.

Battalion One? Try first battalion.

Says cobras aren’t native to the Philippines, except they are on Okinawa.

Dialog is just so hokey it has to be invented by the ignorant ghost writer.:

“Keep your heads down men! The Japanese may be aiming at us!”

“Cease firing until further notice!”

I’m on chapter 7 and I’m done with this contrived story.

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He got off easy

Revisado: 04-08-20

I waited for the Pains of Opium section expecting the awful conditions of withdrawal, physical deterioration, incapacitation and the host of other afflictions we see in society’s modern opioid epidemic.

It seems the ‘pains’ for DeQuincey were only phantasmagorical dreams that twisted his sleep. Is that it? He was lucky.

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