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Very Trite Plot

Revisado: 04-12-25

Zero suspense
Tried to explore mother/ child relationships through parallel stories. Silly and unbelievable tie in.
Characters were rather 2 dimensional. The black fellow hiker was offensive in his stereotypical “light banter” with attempts at humor.
I was never pulling for the lost girl. She caused a lot of disturbance and expense by being so ill prepared for a long hike. She was afraid of the dark and failed to know how to light a fire? She left off a compass because of the bulk or weight? Ridiculous. Did not care for the characters.

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Feel Robbed.

Revisado: 01-31-25

No plot twist. Predictable from first part of book. Had to wait for slow witted protagonist to get it. Not much happens. Zero surprise. pCharacters unbelievable. What a disappointment.

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Rather Shallow

Revisado: 01-16-25

The characters were definitely 2 dimensional even though the times were complicated and challenging. Just a very light read about a family that this reader did not care about. Rather a whitewash of her family’s part in facism of War and then participation in soviet propaganda. Book had nothing new to say.

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Chaos- the book was aptly named

Revisado: 01-12-25

I am interested in true crime and was excited a new book about the Manson murders was available.
But beware! The entire book is a jumble of dead end investigating by a very complaining and frustrated writer. It wasted at least half the book on his process of getting interviews with people. Not interesting at all.
In the author’s own words: “parenthetical long digressions”
“Accept ambiguity”
He “tried to be thorough and tried to be linear”. He failed miserably.
This book adds nothing to the true crime genre and seems to be a very very disorganised search for more facts about the Manson case. The author grasped at straws and could not make a convincing argument for any of his far fetched theories. Frankly i can not believe this was published.

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Tedious jumble

Revisado: 01-01-25

Format was ridiculous. The silly plotline was like throwing in the kitchen sink. Very tedious. Nothing was believable.

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A Somewhat Shallow Slave Perspective

Revisado: 12-22-24

Great germ of an idea but done with a repetitive, very predictable, and corny storyline. The characters were stereotyped and the dangers that just kept coming just deemed like another lap around a very tired plot. I would not recommend this book.

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Simple headed approach to life

Revisado: 10-06-24

I have been a fan of Brooks for years but am very disappointed in this book. He is not a psychiatrist or trained therapist. I thought this book was a dummed down Self help book. He has always been a master of telling stories that illustrate humanity. But this book was filled out by shallow quotes of past philosophies and moralizing lectures. Nothing new. Nothing creative.

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Bias in Long form

Revisado: 09-24-24

I enjoyed reading Exodus and Mila 18 years ago. I thought this book would be a timely and interesting historical narrative. Instead it was an over long dialogue of shallow stereotypes who ranted about honor and revenge without stop. It was so politically slanted that it was difficult to finish.

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Trite and Predictable

Revisado: 09-12-24

What a huge disappointment. I finally finished this audiobook that had been so highly recommended.
Why was it embraced by so many people? Where does it stand out other than the subject matter of women serving in Vietnam?
It felt almost young adult. The plotline was corny predictable. The characters very 2 dimensional. The protagonist was disingenuous and the romances were silly and not believable. The book also contained some heavy handed preaching that was not necessary. This book made me groan by all the plot contrivances.

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A great story told at a very leisurely pace

Revisado: 09-06-24

Wonderful life story. Amazing feats with many references to historical events. Loved the descriptions and sense of time and place. A remarkable story of survival.

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