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Review from The Terran Allegiance →

I had listened to Books 1&2, so I was looking forward to this one. Disappointed to say the least . Narrator is a bit annoying and after 3 chapters I have given up. I know when I don’t like a book when my mind starts to wander .. and this happens a lot while I’m..

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Where’s Fabio?

Review from Love →

Ronald De Sousa’s introduction to Love is very much grounded in psychology and the related fields of neurology, evolutionary psychology and biology. New concepts like limerance are introduced and prove interesting, but the disciplinary focus tends to lead to a reductive set of anthropocentric and slightly androncentric discourses about love. Literature, for example, which one..

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loved it

Review from A Pirate’s Wish →

Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it’s like your really there!! After listening to this story,. I totally enjoyed reading this book. It’s well written and the characters were uniquely fantastic. I would suggest this book to my friends that like this sort of genera. this was a good book. The..

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Worthwhile (with Warts)

Review from Elizabeth and Monty →

The facts of Elizabeth Taylor’s and Montgomery Clift‘s lives are endlessly fascinating, and they are presented here in glimmering (and, at times, in gross) detail. The writing has several loose threads and, despite the narrator’s pleasant voice, there are oddities there too in his work (Get a dictionary! Take a class! Call a coach!). I..

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Not an exhaustive bio,but repetitive

Review from Van Gogh →

It’s not exhaustive. Maybe it is and I can’t tell. The book is not completely chronological, jumping forward and backward in time- which happens several times. The problem with this is that small anecdotes are expounded upon here or there that cross other anecdotes from the same eras, making for lots of perceived repetition. Maybe..

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