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I have sympathy for the narrator

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1 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-25-24

a long, long, (did I say long?) boring variation of the westworld. I wonder what the publisher saw in it. I saw nothing. I wonder if the narrator is okay after the torture of going through this.

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Narration is the only upside

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1 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-16-24

I don't get all the adulation for Le Carre. His books are boring, the plots ranging from simplistic to, well, more simplistic. And nothing else to say, to be hohest.

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Boring, meandering, story filled with unnecessary sentimental tosh

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2 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 08-14-24

The silverlining is that, according to the introduction, the author gave up writing detective stories after two more attempts which were, we are informed, were even worse than this one. I am puzzled why anybody thought an audible version of this dreadful work was worth the effort.

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God, it was boring

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3 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 04-23-24

Some of his stories are better left unpublished. This one is definitely for the attic.

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Boring story, getting rather silly towards the end

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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-30-24

Weak plot and excruciatingly dull but saved by master narration. Ms. Emilia Fox should do more audiobooks. She manages to do 7,8, 10 characters ... Her rendering made the book bearable, nay enjoyable.

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Description of political machinations

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-18-24

too much 'text fillers' which could be removed with no loss to the narrative but made me lose the story's thread

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the plot 'twist' is interesting

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-06-23

it needs 15 words when 14 or 12 oor 8 or one would do do

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Not a study of Hitler Charismatic Authority

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2 out of 5 stars
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Reviewed: 03-05-23

Ian Kershaw has studied Hitler extensively and gathered immense material about the man. His books on the topic (culminating in the two volume biography of Hitler) regurgitate the same material under different book covers. This one does not address how Hitler managed to capture the German zeitgeist and retain his hold till the end. The book offers historical evidence of the fact and little by way of explanation or even description.

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There was no need to write this.

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1 out of 5 stars
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Reviewed: 12-21-22

what a dreadfully dull, boring, laborious, slogging, twaddle ever written by someone who lost a bet or something to write something about anything. AI-generated essays are more interesting and make better sense than this. URGH

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pretentious narration of pretentious twaddle

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Reviewed: 04-26-22

pretentious narration of pretentious twaddle which has to be reviewed in at least 15 words!

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