Brilliantly crafted, elegantly plotted and full of poignant moments and sparkling insight with just the right amount of delicious surreality, and still, despite all that, overwrought, moralizing, and long.
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Brilliantly crafted, elegantly plotted and full of poignant moments and sparkling insight with just the right amount of delicious surreality, and still, despite all that, overwrought, moralizing, and long.
Stephen Kinzer delivers an excellent biography of the Dulles brothers, those cold warriors that shaped and defined so much of modern history - and altho the book could sometimes have had a little less redundant summarizing and a little more historical detail, it was extremely well written, well researched, easy to read, and fascinating.
I don’t usually go for horror because I don’t enjoy the feeling of being creeped out, which this miniseries certainly had plenty of (along with some excellent practical effects), but I will say that the story itself was superb, with lots of twists and reveals that had me hooked, and even tho some of the characters’ monologues got a little long and theatrical for my taste, the overall journey was surprisingly fulfilling and heartfelt.