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The wonderful narration

Revisado: 02-21-24

To this modern reader, Joseph Conrad seems vague and wordy, suffused with the values and style of another time. A period piece in the same way that Apocalypse Now seems distant. I am so glad I happened upon it. Experiencing it through Kenneth Branough’s masterful narration was thrilling.

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Wow!

Revisado: 04-18-23

This book was a great experience because it put into context event that I either lived through or heard my parents and grandparents discuss. I would love to hear what Willian Manchester would have to say about the half century since this book ended!

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Over my head

Revisado: 01-17-23

This was way over my head in all the details , but I was able to follow the trajectory of the. Story, which was interesting and certainly very important, the book is a few years old and so lacks the breathtaking recent discoveries in this field .

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Magnificent retreat

Revisado: 09-05-22

Another heartbreaker, from the annals of the United States Marines. Once more, I am left wondering how they did it.

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Our Fathers War

Revisado: 07-17-22

Everyone should read this book, because it is horrible, and because Daddy lived through it, and because Uncle Ray died at Anzio. It is also thrilling, because Daddy and Uncle Ray made it so.

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Lots to think about

Revisado: 07-02-22

Very dense and actually over my head, but very worth the effort. I had to listen twice to begin to understand. I will say that his view

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One more warning

Revisado: 12-21-21

This is a personal, deeply emotional take on the state of human self-determination in this transitional period between the “modern world” and whatever scary unknown comes next. As the complexities grow around us, a deep desire for simple problems with simple answers leads us to a self- assured simpleton who will lake us triumphantly down a nice cozy blind alley. MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON is Adam Schiff’s cry from the heart that this must not happen. We need to find our way, but this isn’t it.

If you want facts from someone on the firing line, this is it. Democrat or Republican , listen up. Nothing less than your self determination, democracy, is at stake.

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John Bolton speaks up a little late…

Revisado: 12-17-21

John Bolton is a conservative and a hawk; I am neither, but for reasons known only to God, I thought this memoir would be a useful corrective to my urge toward confirmation bias. It was not.

IN my opinion, the book was reasonably well written, and it certainly bristles with facts, times and dates . However, it reveals Trump as an intellectual non-starter with a proud determination to remain uninformed, and to run the country like a family owned corner grocery.
John Bolton reveals himself as a rabid hawk willing, even eager, to reduce civilization to rubble, so long as it’s conservative rubble.

This book would be most valuable were it read by the very people who will never read it.

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Worth Temembering

Revisado: 12-20-20

The Civil War isn’t really over because we haven’t fully settled our issues. So it is worth remembering the absolute devotion of a generation who held things together so we could continue groping our way to a more perfect union. This book was an emotional experience for me, a Southerner, heir to all this agony.

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I had no idea this book was so good, so evocative of a time and place long gone, and yet so much with us still.

Revisado: 09-27-20

I have known about this book but never got around to it until corona virus trapped me at home with lots of time to do good things, like knitting while listening. I had no idea this book was so good! What a feast for the mind and imagination it has beenI. . If someone in power had read it 20 years ago, we might have saved ourselves quite a bit of sorrow in Iraqis.

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