Derek

Detail-rich, and wide-ranging critique. Compelling

Revisado: 03-06-19

As someone who was a teen through much of the period of Bill Clinton's presidency, it is fascinating to revisit Hitchens' 'No One Left to Lie to' as it feels like almost an alternate history of events relative to my media and time-softened memory of the era. At the time I was aware of some of the major transgressions he was accused of and understood, on an abstract level perhaps, that he might not be the charming, affable, and decent sort that he otherwise presented himself as.

Hitchens clearly had a much closer and a much deeper view of the president and his wife and his writing throughout this book is filled with abject contempt for Bill Clinton as an absolute monster of a human, with Hillary being little (if any) better. He makes a detailed and compelling case (if one that doesn't turn to supporting fact very much - perhaps the written version is filled with footnotes?) that both of them were serious criminals, many times over, and in many different areas. I imagine it would be very hard to listen to the entirety of this book and walk away believing that either a suitable individual to be president, (or in Hilary's case the nominee for president).

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Police procedural murder mystery Sci Fi

Revisado: 01-08-19

This is the first Peter Hamilton book I've finished and in many ways I was enthralled during the vast majority of the 36-hour listen. The quality of the exposition and character development writing throughout is outstanding. The build and progression of the main story is slow but intriguing and the the core murder mystery running through the center of the narrative is tied together *satisfactorily* with all the other narrative threads by the end (it all makes sense). However, while not coming close to what could be called a disappointment, the ending is the book's weakest element and once all the cards are on the table, I did feel a bit irritated by how much time had been spent on largely superfluous plot-inessential narrative arcs, and the development of certain characters throughout the book. Always intriguing in the moment, but some of those arcs went on for too long considering how little they contributed to the primary plot. This is possibly what makes the 900+ page book slightly outstay its welcome. If this had been more aggressively edited, it'd be a solid 5/5.

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