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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
informative
slow-paced
I’ve read quite a few Ben Macintyre books & this was disappointing. Maybe it was the subject matter but it was a slog & not up to what I expect with Macintyre’s works.
Excellent biography/history of a man who led a most extraordinary life, and some of the interesting individuals he mixed with.
Super entertaining and had me rooting for Worth the entire time. A fantastic weekend read.
This book was fantastic. The story and the writing of it. Fiction should remember how great real life can be; the last few novels I’ve read, especially crime novels, can’t touch the characters who live on these pages. Especially the lifelong friendship between Adam Worth, gentleman thief, and the infamous Robert Pinkerton.
If I ever do write a novel, it will probably be some sort of fanfic— homage, let’s say— to the story in here. In other words, not the first of the novels inspired by Worth’s life.
If I ever do write a novel, it will probably be some sort of fanfic— homage, let’s say— to the story in here. In other words, not the first of the novels inspired by Worth’s life.