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the tragedy of love triumphs

Revisado: 01-20-24

the tragedy of it. yes, all the tragedy of Ireland's history made actual in a sprawling family of lost potential

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Madina the naively shrewd

Revisado: 12-18-22

incisive commentary and awesome purity meet as Mandela speaks to Stengel and slays him with his pragmatic logic and goodness.

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brilliant important wonderful elegant economical

Revisado: 12-08-22

This presentation of story by competent actor off literate writer of historically erudite commentary is awesome, Canadian and convincing.

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vintage nineties Murakami

Revisado: 11-08-22

So much to dream your way through. Thirty something heroes and confusion finding their way. Dream and reality dancing through the zeitgeist with plenty of physicality and spiritual desire.

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A writer who honestly likes writing

Revisado: 11-03-22

Unlike some listeners who say they would have preferred to read this book, I was very happy to listen. I like her no-fanfare voice and Canadian accent as well as her marvelous sense of humour and irony which is accentuated through her voice. The content is a major review of literature ancient and modern and much of it that I had not read, I now will read. I am thankful she was not brought up on TV.

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Now I know!

Revisado: 10-19-22

I was in Israel in a kibbutz when I met Rabin. I later heard of his assassination owing to his wanting to return land to the Palestinians. I did not know about the roots of Netanyahu who has with American help refused to let that happen. I loved this book (despite the mistakes of the reader) for its weaving of family dramas and medieval and modern history in maddening and delicious detail. The notes from the author are invaluable in appreciating the relevance of the domestic tale.

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vintage strout at her best

Revisado: 10-14-22

brings in and fills gaps in the characters you have known with covid and post-covid insights and perspectives

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Revisado: 10-03-22

Delicious, fantastic, cruel, righteous, self justifying, making full use of the author's experiences tramping the earth!

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Revealing and economical

Revisado: 09-04-22

Wharton knew the landscape well and got under its skin also. it is history of the cracking of certainties.

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Towles has not disappointed me yet.

Revisado: 08-26-22

Long may he write the emotionally intelligent historically referenced stories he has so far spun. This New York book is full of geographical as well as historical references. Also it is a candid look at the aristocratic indifference and excesses of inherited wealth in an era of vast economic differences. it is a scathing reminder of easy come easy go of fortunes in this era. The classes that assume superior cultural pedigree are revealed to juman in the same way as their inferiors. The story is told in the eloquent voice of an independent young woman on her way to getting tas much justice and freedom out of the game. Yet she doesn't succumb to the rich who would own her, but charts her own course in disarming ways that are a wonder to behold. For one who loves the idea and reality of New York, it gives pages and pages that open for us to explore around each corner of the city. We are taken to the places the rich escape to, from the views from high over Central Park to the mansions in the Hamptons, and also the dives and tenements in less trendy New York. I found the story and the picture of tcity's cultural colors o be nostalgia heaven, and that's before I never wanted it to end.

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