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Government malice throughout

Revisado: 03-09-24

A remarkable story about a truly remarkable man. What mostly come to mind with much of the tragic theme through the story is an addage my father related: never give a government agency a power you would not give to your worst enemy.
The itnerpretive malice of the militay security and FBI throughout the book is proof of my father’s addage.

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A highly entertaining first half

Revisado: 07-27-22

The first half of the book is highly entertaining with some very interesting and amusing characters. The second half of the book meanders about with occasional bright spots. The narrator does a spectacular job.

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The last paragraph of the book is fiction??

Revisado: 05-15-22

May 14, 2022 -I've read the book, I'm reading the Epilogue and the last paragraph states this obvious fabrication, "in the fall of 2022 Nikita started his first year at one of Americas top art and design schools" Then the credits refers to the book as a true account.....WTF!

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A few facts and a quote in context, would be nice.

Revisado: 01-30-22

I have read number of books recounting many aspects of Churchill's life in politics and war. This one is absurd, with so few substantiating facts, continuous innuendo and endless out of context quotes, none of which he even attempts to verify the context. Some quote are as much as 300 years before the man's time with little attempt to brig relevance tothe quote. Faulting Churchill in the 30's for his failure to perfectly predict every European event leading to the Second World War stretched credulity, particularly with him getting so much of it right when no one else did. The book is nothing more than an envious socialist's ramblings and determination to sully Churchill's image in every way possible. I could not finish it.

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Astounding craftsmanship!

Revisado: 01-12-22

Towles brings his characters, his scenes and the play so vividly to life, in so many subtle ways, you will find yourself rereading sentences and passages again in admiration of the purity of his imagery.

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By far the best of the series

Revisado: 11-08-20

For some reason I did not find Tai-Pan until I had read the first and last of the series. My feeling now, is that is the order to read them, partly because the other two books are weak by comparison to Tai-Pan. Shogun is an interesting tale that just peters out at the end and is never picked up again in either of the following tales. Gai-Jin has many allusions to the larger than life character Dirk Struan which is neatly filled in reading Tai-Pan last, making Tai-Pan all the better tale.

Tai-Pan is loaded with characters that could easily become series on their own. Sadly, they to just fade away as do the first and last of the series.

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Is this a Rocky Bullwinkle Natasha & Boris Script?

Revisado: 05-13-19

Two chapters in and I give up. The dialogue and narration is so bad, I fully expect the narrator to launch into a plot between Natasha and Boris against Rocky and Bullwinkle.

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Corleone can't compete and the narrator ruins that

Revisado: 02-26-19

Who picked this guy to write this addition to the series? As bad as the narrator was, Corleone's juvenile writing and dialogue made the whole thing unlistenable and often comically so. The narrator's absurdly slow pace with all characters in the same voice, made bad dialogue even worse. The concept of the story was quite good, but so much of the writing came across as if it was originally written in another language.

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With that ending, it better be a series...

Revisado: 01-10-19

I loved every moment of this book, except for the last few pages and all will be forgiven if this turns our to be a series. This book easily rivals any of the Clifton Chronicles titles. Archer so simply creates word pictures and moods better than any author all but a few.

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Greaney getting far fetched on this one

Revisado: 05-27-18

The exploits of our hero on this one ventures into the comic book realm, with deeds just too much to be believable. Couple that with a tale that had several mundane sidetracks to the story and it's a yawner.

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