This book has a lot going for it. Impressionist art lovers get insights and a “you are there” feeling.
Provence lovers get a lot of the flavor of southern France. And the story is engaging. Put it all together and it is a worthwhile experience.

Well done. It was fun to go back in time to when the image you get in reading the book is of
Sean Connery as Bond. The plot is engaging enough and the writing is good. I would recommend this
to anyone who enjoyed the original Fleming books.

What a snooze. The trip doesn’t start until almost halfway through the book and then the insights are minimal.
If you are interested in road books and/or Warhol, I wouldn’t waste my time with this book.

The wives are just not that interesting. It’s not their fault and the premise behind this intrigued me.
But what I learned wasn’t worth the time I spent.
I was surprised it became a television show and not surprised it wasn’t successful.

When you read this book you can see why it is so loved. We learn in a well paced, well written
fashion about the boys on the boat. And the story is one of teamwork and sacrifice and goodness really,
that resonates so well. A real pleasure to read.

Exhaustive and exhausting. Impressive research in unearthing everything about this interesting man.
At times it just became too much, but then I was interested in learning more about Fosse, not everything.

The best book I’ve read this year and I read a lot.
The story of the two sisters is all the more impressive in that both stories are compelling as we move to the climax.
And the author earns all the tears readers shed at the end.
It’s been a while since I have recommended a book this strongly to others, knowing how much they will enjoy it.
And everyone does.

As a VJ contemporary, I lapped this stuff up. And it was quite candid, to their credit.
I would recommend it to anyone curious about what it was like in the beginning.

I figured out where we were going about the halfway through, but it didn’t lessen I pleasure in getting
to the end. Can’t get enough Reacher stories, and this one is solid, even if the ending is telegraphed early.

Wyndham’s work holds up incredibly well. An inventive mind a crisp, dry writing approach combine to make this a pleasure
to read after all these years, not something you can say about science fiction writing all that often.