Cecily Drucker

Great view of a star’s not-so-easy life

Revisado: 10-04-23

Thoughtful recollections from a very talented song-writer of the end of the 20th c.

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Excellent; Provocative

Revisado: 07-17-22

Where do multi-cultural, multi-ethnic governments go “now”? This is an excellent perspective-written by an American right-of-center journalist who has lived in Europe, and particularly Poland where her husband is a National right-of-center politician, looking at the pendulum swings of national politics and political sentiment in (in decreasing attention from the author), Poland, Hungary, Germany, France, the UK and US; how autocratic sentiments get energy, support politicians and movements, and threaten democracy.

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Sometimes fascinating and other times a slog

Revisado: 04-25-22

The story, which apparently is true, is fascinating; it’s the story of one person’s mission to redeem the life and legacy of a man who

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Lovely and poignant

Revisado: 01-10-22

This is a “follow one” only in one sense really to Edmond dwells magnificent book “the hair with the amber eyes

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Engaging, almost to the end

Revisado: 10-21-21

This is an enjoyable book; lots of info for anyone interested in space missions and, until the end, good character development. BUT, almost at the end (no spoilers here), one of the main characters “exits left”, too abruptly and without much said about that person’s “thereafter”. After so much detail of said person’s inner and outer life, this makes no sense.

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Narrator is really awful

Revisado: 08-08-21

Granted, this is a very dry and boring subject-and probably this book should not have been converted to the spoken word, in any event, but if one is going to plunge ahead, anyhow, at least get a competent narrator. And AUDIBLE-you would do well to pay to have the audio edited before releasing it.
For instance, the written text (and narrator) state that the DASH Diet (“DD”) was first formulated in 1992 and then, when reading about what has transpired in terms of recognition of its efficacy in 2017 (approx), says “30 decade.
Further, his pronunciation of some words is really weird!

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Enjoyable but tiresome

Revisado: 04-04-21

An interesting story, fact & fiction, reality and memory and wishful thinking. It should and could have been edited savagely without compromising anything: Instead of writing (and I paraphrase): “Abraham was dealing with fact, memory, uncertainty; Gretchen was dealing with fact, memory, uncertainty; “X” was dealing with ...”, which really lost impact, better: Abraham, Gretchen, X, all dealing with their myopic facts, memory, uncertainty”... this style of trying to show how universal that particular experience or mental state was, by repetition, itself is used multiple times and wears very thin...

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The Not-So Obvious Ending

Revisado: 12-12-20

Funny and tragic story; what can possibly go wrong with well-intentioned and ill-informed foreign aid? This story could have taken place in almost any third-world county, and without too much effort certain aspects could have been changed—but the ending would be the same. Dave Eggers has a policy position, but it is very subtle and best seen across various books.

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A fun story

Revisado: 09-05-20

And definitely credible in these strange times! As we are all wearing masks, remember that what you see is not necessarily what you get!

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"Oh, what a tangled web we weave..."

Revisado: 09-28-16

Initially, I wasn't very enthused with either the story line or the narrator. But after about 45 minutes, I warmed up to both--then the narrator totally fit the book, and the story became more complex and interesting, and it held my interest throughout (except it seemed to drag a bit just before the end). Definitely recommend!

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