there were definitely moments that were very engaging but there was also a lot on the opposite side of that and I also found that the narration by author was not that good
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some things I found more interesting than others I really like this portion that she talked about red Vienna which i' never heard of before you can look it up it's interesting but red Vienna Eugenics disability those are topics that I find interesting to read about and so I liked that it showed up in her book but there were other passages where I feel like things kind of went off in random directions and didn't quite tie back to what she was talking about
I do feel like I absorbed many interesting tidbits from this book even though I was hesitant about it at first and I do feel like it got a bit weaker as it went on but especially towards the beginning I was talking to a few different friends about tidbits that I was reading in this book
so this is probably more like a 4.25 out of five but it's really well written it's engaging I didn't didn't want to put it down a lot of the time very moving and I would definitely highly recommend it
this book I gave it solid four stars I learned some things from it I wish Maybe hadn't been quite so long just because I didn't want to read it in the first place but if you are interested in reading a King biography if this is something you've been thinking about I can definitely recommend this
though I do think that maybe she overstepped it a little bit with her imaginings of these situations I do think it helped to humanize everybody including Orwell because he definitely did not come off well most of the time

