La Presidenta

by Lois Gould

Quality Book

Genres: Fiction

349 pages, Hardcover

First published August 28, 1982

Reviews

[Pat Camalliere · Rating 1 out of 5]

Beautiful detail but an awful book. The writer is excellent at drawing a picture of a place, a time, a feeling. Definitely five stars for that ability. However, the story is almost incomprehensible and is little more than description, repeatedly, of similar situations over and over, similar words and phrases, and the story itself is lost. It’s like watching beautiful scenery, wonderful for the first minute or two, but if nothing happens one soon tunes out. It’s supposed to be the story of Eva Peron, but told with so much inuendo and elaborate detail that the story gets completely lost. Don’t waste your time.

[Ernesto Gasulla · Rating 1 out of 5]

Worthless. Yes it is historical fiction, but to carry the word "historical" it would need to be better documented. Looks like the author saw Evita, which is also bad historical fiction but successful, and decided that "I should write something about this, even if I know nothing of it".The quality of the work of the author can be detected in her abysmal Spanish; why bother using words and expressions in Spanish nobody uses, some being plain wrong translations? She should have stuck to English.

[Mia · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is, perhaps, the worst book I have ever read. I got it - way back when it was published, as a gift from a book of the month club. I was young, maybe too uneducated when I read it but, to me, it seemed as if words had just been typed, one after the other, without any thought or insight to what came before or after. I wonder if this book was originally written in another language and was not translated well. Regardless ... my recommendation would be to pass on this one!

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I read this ,it was before GOODREADS was around so I never say a review. Glad I did not because I thought it was a great book. Now you have to understand it was 10 years ago that I read it and it is not here in front of me. I only remember it was about a female president of some south American country or could have been central America. I can picture the book on my shelf but can not recall the details of its story. will check when I go back to the states next year.