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RealityChik

(394 posts)
16. To be honest...
Thu Mar 8, 2018, 06:02 PM
Mar 2018

This is one of the most boring and uninspiring literary slogs I've wasted time on in decades. I don't know if it was because the characters were (are) so uninteresting and stupid, or that the author's writing style was so gossipy, but it took me longer than usual to plow through it. Prone to reading whole books "in one gulp", I had to pause and read another book before I could eventually finish it.

Against my nature, I even considered not bothering to finish it because Wolfe's uninformed ignorance of the critical current events surrounding Trump's ineptitude completely undermined his credibility with me.

It never rose above smut magazine yellow journalism, hardly delivering anything close to what I would qualify as a biographical literary work. Salacious, yes. But the worst of all Trump biographies to date that I have either read or sampled excerpts from, at least in my opinion.

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Even if you dont read it I am glad you bought it. MLAA Jan 2018 #1
Trump didn't win the pres election. The biggest underthematrix Jan 2018 #2
Im reading it also. lkinwi Jan 2018 #3
mine arrived today....i hope i can get thru it as well! samnsara Jan 2018 #4
Trump Team... Mike Nelson Jan 2018 #5
A lot of people vote down ballot. I do. BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #6
Also... Mike Nelson Jan 2018 #7
I just got it today from my local bookstore. Neoma Jan 2018 #8
Bought the audio book DeminPennswoods Jan 2018 #9
I'm guessing they ironed out the many typos that I am seeing in the digital edition? RussBLib Jan 2018 #11
Read by Holter Graham DeminPennswoods Jan 2018 #12
up to about 53% RussBLib Jan 2018 #10
There's a few people besides the protagonists not coming off well DeminPennswoods Jan 2018 #13
Finished the book RussBLib Jan 2018 #14
Josh Marshall has a long ed blog post about Wolff DeminPennswoods Jan 2018 #15
To be honest... RealityChik Mar 2018 #16
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