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Marilyn - the tragic icon Advantages: Sympathetic, frank and searching portrait of the actress Disadvantages: The author's self-preoccupation and self-advertisement With the possible exception of Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe is probably the most written-about deceased woman in twentieth-century history. The thirty-six years of her life (1926-62) and the manner of her death will no doubt continue to provide an oppo ... JOHNV 15.01.2013 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox - Lois Banner	Degree of Information How easy was it to read... How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
Musing on Mortality Advantages: Sharp, incisive and insightful words from a man facing death Disadvantages: May well offend the type of people who hated him whilst he was alive What does a writer do when he's dying? He writes - of course I am rather ashamed that I didn’t discover Christopher Hitchens until it was in many respects ‘too late’. I had read reviews of some of his books and I knew he was someone I ‘ought’ to read ... koshkha 27.12.2012 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: exceptional Review of Mortality - Christopher Hitchens	Degree of Information How easy was it to read... How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
A Polemist Remembered Advantages: Not too morbid - some lighter moments Disadvantages: The sad loss of Hitchens Publishing House: Twelve Date: Sept 2012 - - - Blair Hitch Project Memoirs are like buses when it comes to Christopher Hitchens - you get three all at once - 'Hitch 22' - 'Arguably' and 'Mortality'. The book 'Mortality' coming more quickly t ... 1st2thebar 03.01.2013 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Mortality - Christopher Hitchens	Degree of Information How easy was it to read... How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
A wonderful biography! Advantages: everything! Disadvantages: nothing! Maud Gonne may have been born in England, but her ancestral roots took her back to Ireland, where she realised that the only way Ireland could be free to be true to itself was if it broke from English rule. From then on, her campaign for Irish women in pa ... Amy69 10.01.2013 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Maud Gonne - Margaret Ward	Degree of Information How easy was it to read... How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
Separating fact from fiction: the life of the first Norman Queen Advantages: Very good account of the life and times of an 11th-century Queen Disadvantages: Little is known about the details of her life; not the author's fault The subject and the author Matilda of Flanders (c.1031-83), as she is generally known, was daughter of Baldwin, Count of Flanders, and Adela, daughter of Robert II, King of France, and wife of William the Conqueror. Tracy Borman has previously pub ... JOHNV 27.09.2012 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England - Tracy Borman	Degree of Information How easy was it to read... How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money