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smcleish's review
2.0
A poorly written account of an interesting life. In many places, the English suggests that it is written by a non-native speaker of the language, not by someone whose Wikipedia entry tells me read English Literature at Oxford. "Apocryphal" is not a synonym for "archetypal", nor is "grousing" for "carousing"; mutilating the phrase "wheeler-dealer" to "wheeler of deals" removes both impact and meaning. Examples such as these made me wonder whether the history was also at fault, though it was on the surface far more convincing (except for his suggestion for the derivation for "full monty" as a phrase used by English speaking players of the Spanish card game monte).
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