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Title: The Perfect Prince: The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England by Ann Wroe ISBN: 1-4000-6033-8 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a conspiracy of dunces, indeed
Comment: I was so bemused by the vigorous attacks here, and such a fan of Pontius Pilate, that I put The Perfect Prince at the head of my reading list, jumping over a few long-waiting candidates, just to see what the problem was.
In a word, I haven't the vaguest.
I didn't find the book difficult to follow at all, and it rewards readers' attention with a wealth of fascinating detail that matches the drama of the story.
I don't care to speculate as to whether the intense hostility is motivated by short attention spans or the pique that some people inevitably display when a book they don't care for is praised, but I found Prince to be a rare, cherishable pleasure.
Rating: 1
Summary: Wha' happened?
Comment: Add my voice to the chorus below condemning this "book" as an incomprehensible, boring, and narratively incoherent mishmash at the core of which, buried among the pointless "look how much research I've done!" asides, the laughably inept attempts at lyrical writing, and the annoying chronological jumble, is a great story, not at all well told. I have no problem with difficult (good) writing, or with keeping track of all the Richards, Henrys, Edwards and the like, which is a necessary part of any study of English political history, but an author who makes her readers work as hard as Ms. Wroe would have us toil -- with negligible reward -- is doing those readers no favors. I'm not really sure what editors do, but this one needed one, badly, and didn't get it. To be fair, I did like one thing about the book: the appendix contains a very good Family Tree of the Houses of York and Lancaster. Royal family trees are cool, but not for $35 (plus tax). Skip it hard.
Rating: 1
Summary: A conspiracy of dunces...
Comment: I am so sorry I didn't read the reviews here before reading this...um, I guess you would call it a book. There's definitely something suspicious about the positive reviews here because the negative reviews are so devestatingly accurate that it's hard to imagine anyone disagreeing. I would defy anyone to select any three pages from this book and then accurately recount the actual sequence of events. The author jumps from year to year and back so frequently that it's maddening to have to mentally juggle the sequence of events constantly, let alone try to understand their import. With such scattershot progression, it's impossible to become immersed in the story or even care. Reading this was akin to reading an encyclopedia. You feel that you must be reading something important, but you care little because it lacks a coherent narrative. Readers who are tempted to purchase this would do well to try my experiment, pick any three pages and see how it strikes them. Then imagine keeping those mental gymnastics up for 500+ pages. Good luck!
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Title: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen ISBN: 0066211735 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower by David Baldwin ISBN: 0750927747 Publisher: Sutton Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Elizabeth and Mary : Cousins, Rivals, Queens by JANE DUNN ISBN: 0375408983 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea by Robert K. Massie ISBN: 0679456716 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander ISBN: 067003133X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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