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"Hitler has so long since been reduced to a joke in pop culture, it's bracing to read this narrative of living through his terrors in real time. Zweig was a fantastic writer, and he makes these memories of the past -- good and ill alike -- all ring..."
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"Just awful. Maybe the worst -- certainly the most boring -- mystery novel I've ever tried to read. Banal and sexist. Some of Crispin's short stories are entertaining, but this is a dud through & through."
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"It’s unclear to me exactly what kind of book Mitchell had set out to write here: it doesn’t work as juvenile adventure story, even though it follows the far-fetched exploits of a couple of kids. As a crime novel, it lacks the sort of tension requi..."
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