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thetatteredowl's review
Was not a bad book, just didn't find it sufficiently readable
kellswitch's review
5.0
This is one of my favorite history books. It was the first one for me that really made it click how interconnected things are, that events in history and in an area rarely happen on their own and only influence the people directly involved.
The writing was very approachable and easy to read but I still felt I was given a lot of information and insight and the people involved felt real to me, not flat and one dimensional
The writing was very approachable and easy to read but I still felt I was given a lot of information and insight and the people involved felt real to me, not flat and one dimensional
margaretpinard's review
3.0
Interesting treatment of the intrigues over porcelain technology. I picked this up because I loved a fiction work of Gleeson's, but found this nonfiction book to be a little less captivating, mostly because she repeated things that were still true, when it wasn't necessary. It felt like stretching out the narrative. "The king was impatient again" or "Bottger was still getting drunk all the time to drown away his sorrows" or "the spies were swarming around Meissen factory, still" etc. But if you cut those out, a great recounting of the humorous-now, deadly-then court intrigues and their effects on history.
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