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Looking beyond those gloomy, sentimental pictures
Advantages: Fascinating, comprehensive and very enthusiastic look at Victorian pictures
Disadvantages: Unless the subject matter leaves you cold - absolutely none
...Oh, Victorian paintings. Large, horrible, gloomy, dark, sentimental pictures which you'd cross the street to avoid. Right? Well, no. There's more to them than meets the eye. Victoriana has always had a bad press, but if anybody is equipped to fight b ...
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Grrrr!
Advantages: Informative and entertaining
Disadvantages: Slow in places
...What do politicians do? No, I don’t mean to be facetious – the fact is that most of us only have a vague idea of the most basic functions of politicians. The Political Animal remedies that. As you expect from Jeremy Paxman, it holds no punches, but neithe ...
DoubleFantasy11 17.08.2007 · Read full review
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Would you vote for these people?
Advantages: Concise, well written and informative
Disadvantages: None
...Part political history, part psychological analysis of what inspires those we choose to lead us. The Political Animal looks at a wide range of politicians almost as though they were a completely different species; and in a way they are.
Having been pol ...
starshapedbrick 29.04.2004 · Read full review
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the Political Animal
Advantages: Informative and anecdotal style makes for easy reading
Disadvantages: Overlaps in chapters, repetitive phrasing, slightly out of date.
...and anecdotal book about the men and women who think it is a good idea to help run the country. The book is funny in places and educational in others. Some facts in the book will be known to people with a basic grasp of the political s ...
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