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| Well-researched, balanced retelling fo the Woodward saga. It's hard not to feel sorry for these people until you remember how rich they are, and then something else takes over - a tremendous sense of waste. ...more | |
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| All three of Poe's books on Lewis are the best I've read about him. One gets a sense of him as a real person, struggling with his own burdens, grateful for the grace of God, late in life seeing the things that he has talked about all his life suddenl ...more | |
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| The second volume of maybe the best biography of Lewis yet. Poe gets into the heart of Lewis' thought life as well as his life, giving the apologetics and fiction that readers expect, as well as his scholarship. Cuts through some of the myth that has ...more | |
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| I was carried away by the broad passages where Spark sets the scene and time. I was constantly flummoxed by the hopscotch nature of the plot, skipping back and forth through time with little indication of what was happening when. I like it when an au ...more | |
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| Some familiar stories, and a few unfamiliar ones. By focusing on these core personalities, and occasionally on Scorsese, DePalma and others, you get the familiar story of how Lucas and Spielberg supposedly steamrolled gritty 70s cinema into soulless ...more | |
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"If there was such a thing as the greatest novel ever written it would not be this bloated, overly dramatic brick of words. And I can't help but wonder, if a woman had written this melodramatic novel, would any one think it was great?
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"I read this whole thing for some reason and honestly I think they should make war criminals read this as a torture device"
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| This was a frustrating book because I had the feeling I was getting only a smattering of the research that the author did into Rosenzweig's life, and yet, he seems to be occasionally a minor player in his own life story. There could have been much mo ...more | |
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| Probably the best book I've read about the Murdaugh saga, with details I hadn't heard and alternate theories of the crime that I was unaware of. The book has the benefit of hindsight, but it also goes into some detail about the details that led to th ...more | |
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| Thirty years later, this is still one of the best books I've ever read and it holds up very well on subsequent rereadings. Beyond the discussion about Hitler is the nature of evil. Is it better than someone is a "true believer" in whatever evil they ...more | |





































