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The grande dame of history brings it together

Revisado: 10-14-19

Much of this vast subject gets overwhelmed by the details. A century torn by death, plague, famine and war exacerbated by politics based more on personal whim than on any effort to make internal or international relations work is an uncomfortable mirror to our own. By the end Tuchman delivers a tale with much to teach us, filled with personality and warmth. I’m glad to have read it.

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Eternal

Revisado: 09-19-19

I have rarely encountered a masterpiece of writing and his profound- and to have it speak to me so personally is world- changing. It is gritty and does not deny he ugliness and pain of life as catastrophe. Nor the salvation of love, of friendship , of beauty. Somehow it is virtue to survive it.

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A completely interesting man

Revisado: 06-27-19

It is easy to dismiss this autobiography as the tootling of a vain intellectual. But as time goes on it is a portrait of a man with man who is prepared to work for his many talents. What impels him is unbounded curiosity. In a way this should impel everyone who hopes to enjoy worthwhile work.

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Best written detective novel

Revisado: 03-01-19

It isn’t often this genera rises to the heights of fine literature. This is my vote.

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Troubled Charismatic Brilliant

Revisado: 01-18-19

Honest and painful view of a woman who was part of all of us fierce females of the sixties. Marie Colvin sought refuge in all of our escapes and rebellions- sex and drugs and alcohol and parties. But where she displayed her greatest courage was not only on the front lines - it was in her internal battle for love and self acceptance. Her rejection of fear and danger on behalf of those who pay the price of being pawns in the wars of super powers was necessary to the larger world and to the world of herself. She collected the injuries of war. She could not treat them all. She did triumph in friends and in her work.

Lindsay Hilaum has written a fine and compassionate story. It is tragedy on the grand scale. Thank you. you are more than equAl to the task.

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Genuine

Revisado: 10-15-18

A warm complex story that is as much family history that brings to life the times that made our progenitors as well as the courageous and sweet path of the protagonist. It is frankly wonderful.

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The best of the Dersden files!

Revisado: 08-09-18

Harry continues to evolve - along with the other excellent characters. Wonderful book, well read, a lot of fun.

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Marsters.

Revisado: 05-06-18

A wonderful reader. I can tell a mesmerizing actor
But as in a spell the words don’t work if they are not pronounced just right. Look up “sigil” and “ocher” to start. Demesne is a root of domain. French ,s as are so many of the words related to the high faery.

Still love the books and Marsters’ masterful characterization - changing from creature to human as smoothly as the Faery Knight.

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Full of insight and understanding

Revisado: 02-13-18

As Foote concludes his masterwork, Lincoln said that man will never change - we will always have the silly and the wise... We will continue to have conflicts, some as tragic as the Civil War, and as many worthy children of our nation will die. This War was decided by the strength of money and of numbers. Lincoln also once commented that to the North the war was an abstraction while the armies of the South fought with the ferocious resolve of those fighting for their land. I have been deeply moved by this book and look forward to reading it again.

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Challenging but Rich

Revisado: 09-25-17

Many voices tell this story of the impact of a sociopath gaining control of the criminal face of Kingston Jamaica. The character around whom the story evolves speaks rarely and never forgets to wreak fatal vengeance on anyone who has offended, crossed, failed or attempted to cheat him. The story follows those who suffer the consequences of the Don's wrath and the desperate attempts of those who attempt to escape it.
Descriptions of violence and fear are not for the faint hearted.
This may be the most penetrating description in literature of ghetto life and the networks on which a drug culture depends.

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