Bay Area Girl

Needed Fabio on the cover with his ear bandaged

Revisado: 04-22-25

Terrible writing , very little sense of the ART . Found out after reading that it was written by a romance writer -/ if that’s your genre , gobble it up.( see the rave reviews)
I Imagine an actual nonfiction bio woukd have interested
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Even the title should be the secret LIVES of sunflowers. Waste of time DNF and I’ll just suffer thru book club “ discussion “.

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Like two ships passing

Revisado: 12-19-22

Very little about invigorating and/or friendly dinners with RBG. Not much depth to the idea of friendship — other than stating that women in biz need a network of other women . Nothing thoughtful or funny or poignant here . RBG peripheral to most of the book.

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Repeats repeats repeats

Revisado: 11-27-21

Too long and too pretentious; an intriguing dilemma is buried under a slog of words. The Regents U ( UCSD ) and Blacks Beach setting was wasted. Obviously intended as a noir homage to Chandler but falls short . Needed an editor not an archivist to hone in on what was a very timely ideas: artist’s work v artist’s private life, big donors controlling the archive, what’s the source of an artist’s inspiration, digital cloud storage replacing books ( now a space for galas instead of research stacks.) too bad the writing dragged all this under .

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Not the last days of Stalin

Revisado: 06-04-21

Not focused on the struggle for power after Stalin’s death . About 1/4 of book is about the anti Jewish Doctors Plot unleashed by Stalin . But this event is not directly linked to the power struggle after Stalin’s death. It is just not the book I expected from the title. Cursory about works Geo political power chess, yet also not detailed about internal politburo power struggles.

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Heist but so much more

Revisado: 08-27-20

A jewelry store heist gone wrong. Muscle cars .... BUT so much more. Fatherhood, motherhood, Blacks and whites, family . I fell into this book because of the characters and the setting. After reading a review that criticized the similes I want to add that they were one of my favorite parts, not overdone. Especially in an audible version. Narrator was outstanding . Hat tip for his voicing of Kia , the mother . Highly recommend especially if you are driving around !

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too short but good to be intro a new apprentice

Revisado: 08-14-19

clever plot, great narrator. invigorating to be in Germany -- new rivers! but too short! Develop the stories a little more in depth please, not all these novellas for the price of a novel. Maybe combine them into sets. Fun tho.

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intriguing connection to In Cold Blood

Revisado: 06-23-19

First I think the narrator may have really made me want to know what the connections were between the antagonist (for lack of a better word) and the original killers in In Cold Blood. Because actually the story is a bit slow and really at times over the top unbelievable. I would have liked MORE psychological depth to the original killers as well as "Jerry Nolan". As it was a lot was set up and then the plot took over.

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Narrator ruins it

Revisado: 02-22-19

Gosh ! Like a bad tv ad man voice ; narrator ruins this interesting story. Who okayed This One I Would Really Really Like To Know!
EACH word is emoted ... I’m not that stupid that I need this .

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Whaling - I should have known it wasn’t meant for me

Revisado: 07-04-18

Did not like the narrator and the times and the whaler crew and first mate. Why— just too gritty yet somehow also over the top into cliche land , in my opinion. Hope I can get my refund , but I’ll admit that some may like it more than my visceral dislike.

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Once it left the Alps it went down hill fast

Revisado: 02-18-18

The earliest section of this book about the teenage Pino in the snowy Alps guiding escaping Italian Jews to safety in Switzerland was interesting and authentic if a bit breathless in its hero worship. But after he gets down to Milan the bathos and drama become repetive. True story elements get buried under the cliched writing. Needed an editor as do so many of these Amazon specials. Too bad because I do think with work trimming and focusing and letting the story speak for itself, it could have been an interesting and worthwhile read. The actual writing matters because frankly there is little suspense — we all know who won the war. Will Wheaton’s narration is adequate not his usual energy IMHO .

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