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This book makes me want to read Dr. Zhivago. But if I did, I know it would not have the beauty of this story. I loved that the story was interwoven into East and West and the character's titles changed throughout the book (The Applicant, The Carrier, The Nun, The Student, for example). And throughout it all The Typists were a chorus of sorts, moving the story along and bridging the East and West. ...more
This book makes me want to read Dr. Zhivago. But if I did, I know it would not have the beauty of this story. I loved that the story was interwoven into East and West and the character's titles changed throughout the book (The Applicant, The Carrier, The Nun, The Student, for example). And throughout it all The Typists were a chorus of sorts, moving the story along and bridging the East and West. ...more
"The book is all about Doctor Zhivago, the author of it, his lover, how the book was banned and how America managed to get the book published and into Russia ( all based on fact ) intermingled with fiction re the ‘spies’ of the 1950’s, the ‘typists’ of the American Govt, who saw all and said nothing and a forbidden love affair between a typist and a spy"
The CIA program of spies and typists was a fact, the names and stories surrounding them are fictional. ...more
The CIA program of spies and typists was a fact, the names and stories surrounding them are fictional. ...more
I actually couldn't get past the insufferable prologue.
Girls had to study twice as hard as boys in college in the 50s? Were they particularly stupid? Must have been if they graduated, applied for jobs as typists, and then were mad that they were asked if they could type during the interview. ...more
Girls had to study twice as hard as boys in college in the 50s? Were they particularly stupid? Must have been if they graduated, applied for jobs as typists, and then were mad that they were asked if they could type during the interview. ...more
I listened to this as an audiobook and I felt like it was very confusing at points.
Sep 12, 2019
Kelsi
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Oct 27, 2019
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Oct 28, 2019
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Kaitlyn
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Misty B
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