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A review by ghost_of_the_library
Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies by Hayley Nolan
1.0
Let me make this clear - I didn't read the whole book, I read the preface, the first and the last chapter, and it was enough to convince that this was not worth my time.
Its been awhile since I've had a book that 3 pages in, all I can do is stare in disbelief at how this came to even be published, and beg the author to shut up, stop talking and go do some proper research!
If this is supposed to be a feminist manifest to rehabilitate an historical figure, whose so called "bad reputation" has undergone extensive reassessment and rehabilitation for several decades, then this fails spectacularly and only gives actual feminists a really bad rep.
Regardless of topic, and this is one that actually interests me, I most heartily dislike authors who, before the book even starts, have done nothing but yell at you for not seeing things their way .... hence you're an idiot... and what's even more (i can't find the word) is, she will still call you an idiot even if you read this, since she's the only one clever enough to have had a proper epiphany on Anne Boleyn.
To make matters even more absurd we are informed a psychiatric evaluation will take place, on Henry, Anne and the like ..... all the while with plenty of !!!! in between.
I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am I only downloaded the sample and didn't buy the book.
My conclusion....she has no nowhere near the academic credentials of David Starkey but she's his female version when it comes to utter disrespect for your readers.
Don't waste your time ... anyone with even an mild case of "Tudoritis" will know that what happened 500 years can't and shouldn't be judged by modern standards and that Henry was no saint, nor Anne was a harlot... pardon my English.
You've been warned....proceed at your risk.
(yes this so called book aggravated the bloody hell out of me).
HAPPY READINGS (of anything but this).
Its been awhile since I've had a book that 3 pages in, all I can do is stare in disbelief at how this came to even be published, and beg the author to shut up, stop talking and go do some proper research!
If this is supposed to be a feminist manifest to rehabilitate an historical figure, whose so called "bad reputation" has undergone extensive reassessment and rehabilitation for several decades, then this fails spectacularly and only gives actual feminists a really bad rep.
Regardless of topic, and this is one that actually interests me, I most heartily dislike authors who, before the book even starts, have done nothing but yell at you for not seeing things their way .... hence you're an idiot... and what's even more (i can't find the word) is, she will still call you an idiot even if you read this, since she's the only one clever enough to have had a proper epiphany on Anne Boleyn.
To make matters even more absurd we are informed a psychiatric evaluation will take place, on Henry, Anne and the like ..... all the while with plenty of !!!! in between.
I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am I only downloaded the sample and didn't buy the book.
My conclusion....she has no nowhere near the academic credentials of David Starkey but she's his female version when it comes to utter disrespect for your readers.
Don't waste your time ... anyone with even an mild case of "Tudoritis" will know that what happened 500 years can't and shouldn't be judged by modern standards and that Henry was no saint, nor Anne was a harlot... pardon my English.
You've been warned....proceed at your risk.
(yes this so called book aggravated the bloody hell out of me).
HAPPY READINGS (of anything but this).