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157 utenti
9 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 4
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 09:08 AM
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- Themis-Athena: James Bond -- from Miss Moneypenny's point of view.
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478 utenti
22 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 3.36
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 08:54 AM
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- Themis-Athena: "The Queen of Spy Novelists" -- or so they call her. With reason.
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404 utenti
16 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 2.68
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 08:56 AM
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- Themis-Athena: Book no. 2 in the Liz Carlyle series -- book no. 1 is "At Risk", which I'd already read by the time I created this list. I liked it ... turns out I rather like the whole series, in fact.
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206 utenti
5 recensioni
½ 3.4
Punteggio 2.38
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 08:56 AM
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- Themis-Athena: ... and Mrs. Rimington's autobiography is nothing short of fascinating.
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- Themis-Athena: The author -- and the book -- that inspired the James Bond novels.
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387 utenti
8 recensioni
½ 3.5
Punteggio 2.25
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 08:58 AM
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- Themis-Athena: Added at a friend's suggestion, and what a good suggestion it was!
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2,738 utenti
49 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 2.2
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 08:59 AM
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- Themis-Athena: Pass the gin. (Also: strictly on audio.) ... Or so I thought. Actually, this turned out surprisingly entertaining!
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2,913 utenti
55 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 2.15
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 08:59 AM
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- Themis-Athena: Not the best of Christie's spy fiction (surprisingly, even when compared with "They Came to Baghdad", above), but bearable, and it definitely benefited from the audio abridgment ... and from being narrated by Samantha Bond.
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- Themis-Athena: An English actress in early 1930s Berlin, infiltrating the social circle of Magda Goebbels: surprisingly well-researched and well-executed.
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- Themis-Athena: An alternative post-9/11 Germany (and Eastern Europe) -- not half as well realized as Jane Thynne's 1930s Berlin in "Black Roses" (above).
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343 utenti
18 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 2.03
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 09:01 AM
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- Themis-Athena: A misfit, from Bethesda, MD, to spying in Argentina. Thanks for the recommendation, Mike Finn!
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- Themis-Athena: Judging by the blurbs, most of Lynds's books don't appeal to me, but this one sounds like it might. (Have yet to read it.)
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142 utenti
13 recensioni
½ 3.3
Punteggio 1.97
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 09:02 AM
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- Themis-Athena: First in the series -- OK, though not great (but it got better towards the end). I may give the series another shot, but probably not very soon.
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539 utenti
19 recensioni
½ 3.6
Punteggio 1.94
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 09:02 AM
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- Themis-Athena: Plame Wilson's autiobiography, OTOH, reads more timely than ever now.
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di Paulo Coelho
799 utenti
40 recensioni
3.2
Punteggio 1.92
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 09:03 AM
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- Themis-Athena: Mata Hari.
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105 utenti
3.8
Punteggio 1.89
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 09:03 AM
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- Themis-Athena: Adventurer, intrepid traveler ... and spy! (A 2019 addition to the list.)
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34 utenti
2 recensioni
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Punteggio 1.87
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 09:03 AM
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- Themis-Athena: Working with the French Résistance was just one of Josephine Baker's many occupations and faces.
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9 utenti
Punteggio 1.85
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 09:04 AM
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- Themis-Athena: The Confederate spy whom Southern newspapers alternately celebrated as "Joan of Arc of the South", "Siren of the Shenandoah", and "Cleopatra of the Secession".
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- Themis-Athena: An Australian in the French Résistance. The Nazis called her "The White Mouse", due to her nimbleness and skill at evading capture.
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di Peter Finn
237 utenti
17 recensioni
3.9
Punteggio 1.81
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 09:05 AM
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- Themis-Athena: How can this possibly *not* be on my "Summer of Spies" reading list? Or so I thought ... only to find it depressingly underwhelming.
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8,796 utenti
190 recensioni
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Punteggio 1.79
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 09:06 AM
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- Themis-Athena: Honorary mention: Perhaps not a spy novel as such, but the mother of all swashbucklers -- written by a woman, and starring a power couple specializing in infiltrating the enemy's side every which way and then some. "They seek him here, they seek him there ..."
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283 utenti
10 recensioni
½ 3.4
Punteggio 1.77
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 09:06 AM
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- Themis-Athena: (... and for an encore ...)
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378 utenti
11 recensioni
½ 3.7
Punteggio 1.76
Aggiunto 2020-08-12, 09:15 AM
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- Themis-Athena: (... and another encore ...) This is the book from which most of the Scarlet Pimpernel tropes are taken, down to the "they seek him here" ditty -- unfortunately, it somewhat falls apart before even having reached its midway point.