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thought-provoking and full of surprises

Revisado: 04-01-25

The novel is a lot of fun because of the humor and the twists and turns the reader is put through. I don't recall asking so often in a book, okay, what is going on NOW?

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Memorable and pleasing once you get going

Revisado: 06-28-24

listening to a le Carre book requires restarts. this is artful writing and often relies on dialogue. this means it's easy to forget who's talking and who they are. this isn't a minus, but it's reality for the average Joe. so, I got through it eventually and liked it very much. many scenes are stuck in my mind and I liked very much the main character. a good villain, too. The reading was satisfactory but perhaps not as pleasing as I would like.

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A gripping story, perfectly read.

Revisado: 03-03-21

Similar in style to an Elmore Leonard novel, this is a crisply written noir story. The reader captures the right spirit of the work.

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Doggerel and Bleeding Chunks

Revisado: 01-20-21

This is a very well-read collection of excerpts, children's rhymes and the type of verse George Orwell called good bad poems. All are brief. None too deep.

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Great concept, average execution

Revisado: 04-28-19

There are interesting bits about the work of seventeenth-century executioners. These sections are well written. The fictional elements are less successful. Cliche and flat writing abound. Gardner's performance, as always, good.

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Some moral questions

Revisado: 02-23-18

The reader was creative and professional, and the book held my interest. The prose is clear enough. Keeping track of the many French names, and where the battles were being fought proved difficult. I was disappointed with the epilogue which consisted of a list of who died when. What was needed was a summing up. How many casualties were there in the Napoleonic Wars? Were they inevitable? What were the benefits Napoleon brought to mankind? these points were hit upon throughout the book, but needed to be summarized.

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strange omissions

Revisado: 10-08-17

This volume was least diverting of the lot but was not devoid of interest. The irony of Poland, whose invasion by Germany started the war losing its freedom anyway, had been lost on me. The absence of certain subjects in this and earlier volumes puzzled me. Operation Market Garden is one example. And how do you abridge the Holocaust?

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good reporting

Revisado: 06-06-17

I learned much, despite issues with the writer's style. Overlook the cliches, the anthropomorphisms, the vapid asides and the general flatness of the writing and you will enjoy this book.

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dreary

Revisado: 09-15-16

although well read and stylishly written this is strange tale of a man and his mother is dated, without sympathetic characters, and ultimately dull

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Just Spike

Revisado: 05-18-16

Mostly this is Milligan and unfamiliar second bananas. Even the musicians are different. The bonus materials are of some interest.

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