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I put this book down and never took it up again because I wanted to like it, but it seemed overly simplistic, to the point of wondering how it became a book at all.

Cannot tolerate the constant references to Harry Potter and other pop culture. It's too "cute," ungenuine, and pandering.

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Already uncertain about this book. Not even through the first chapter and already the author is asserting his masculinity with descriptions about military maneuvers and Catherine's reported beauty--except, of course, at 33, the "bloom of youth" had already faded from her features.

After the first few articles, this book has gotten more interesting, with character sketches of unusual individuals (one who considered himself God, another a humble counterfeiter of $1 bills). Enjoying this journalist's writerly development through the decades of his career.

Remembering why I find Russian literature so seductive. "He drove his car unthinkingly, floating in his pain like a specimen in formalin. Snow was falling, as heavy as white bread soaked in water. The whole
of Moscow was quietly drowning in this nutritious deluge, the glassy massifs
of the New Arbat were like dull stainless steel." Basileus, Olga Slavnikova

Since I can't use my Kindle anyway, decided to return to the Read Russia anthology.

Bah. So many great books I want to read are not in Kindle format.

This little book is so chock-full of information I read only a few pages before sitting it down to let the ideas sink in. A hurried read would mean missing so many good points.

Really hoping to read about more than crime in this book.

New Kindle on the way. Turning to a couple of neglected paper books for now while I wait for new device.

A good portion of the Goddess was indeed bibliography. Exhaustive research on Marilyn Monroe's life, death, and the aftermath of death. However, it did seem that the author was trying outlast the reader's patience at times. Now need to find something happy to read.