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Bravura performance.

Revisado: 02-15-24

This mystery novel is written in the subjective first person feminine, a young girl with an inferiority complex. The narrator, Ms. Massey, brings the story alive beyond all expectations, deftly imitating all characters as seen through the eyes and ears of the innocent youngster.

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Classis Dumas

Revisado: 09-01-23

A classic Dumas tale of honor, strife, intrigue, love, and politics in 1798 France. A waning band of underground royalist sympathizers spar with various antagonists as General Bonaparte rises to First Consul and conspires for more, all as a triangle love affair is born under a tragic star. The reader does an excellent job, in my view, of enunciating French words that so often bedevil English speakers.

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A badly needed first-person, insider account...

Revisado: 11-14-21

Some of the negative reviews here prove the point that this book is a badly needed first-person, insider account of the real J. Edgar Hoover. Along with Hoover's FBI-The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant, by Cartha D. DeLoach, The Director-My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover helps to set the record straight and separate fact from the often-outrageous fiction that has enveloped Hoover since his death. Hoover is revealed as a conservative perfectionist who made mistakes, but who turned the F.B.I. into the preeminent investigative agency in the world through tough standards and close management. It will come as sour news to Hoover-haters that, in large part, he protected the Bureau from forces both within and without which sought to mire the Bureau in sordid politics, and that the mistakes he made were influenced by his lifelong investigations of Soviet communism. Nor was he a crossdressing gay or racist.

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Elementary

Revisado: 12-10-16

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

no.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The pitch of the work is elementary, college freshman at most. The Author suffers from an anti-European prejudice. E.g., China and India did not enter the industrial revolution when Europe did because their economic systems were more advanced and thus they didn't need it.

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Excellent

Revisado: 06-12-10

Rare insights into French and Parisian cultural history of the 1860-1870's. Expertly delivered.

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Subpar for Dumas, redeemed by Simon Vance.

Revisado: 01-21-10

As others have said, the velvet and lace romantic intrigues are subpar for Dumas, but the novel as a whole is redeemed by its enlargement and shading of the series' characters, insightful flourishes, and above all by the sublime performance of Simon Vance, who intones new meaning into otherwise hackneyed soap opera.

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Fred Williams

Revisado: 10-14-05

I m surprised at the criticism of the reader. As a veteran of more than 20 years of book-on-tape, in my opinion, Fred Williams is one of the best, particularly in this genre of multiple languages and an objective-then-subjective author. Perhaps others are more taken with Hollywood melodrama and histrionics.

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