The Charm School Lib/E (Audiobook)

from HenriMoreaux

When I initially came across this book I was not overly thrilled with the blurb and at 671 pages it's a bit of a commitment. However, after having read the General's Daughter & The Gold Coast by this author I thought I'd give Charm School a chance, and I can say I'm glad I did. The author paints ...

from BrendanPMyers

When you think about it, the demise of the Soviet Union also brought about the end of an entire genre of fiction, the Cold War melodrama. Some of the greatest books of the second half of the twentieth-century were devoted to this subject (The Manchurian Candidate comes to mind) and then one day, ...

from LisaMaria_C

DeMille was recommended on The Ultimate Reading List for World of Honor. I chose The Charm School instead because it's the favorite DeMille book of a friend whose reading tastes I trust. Mind you, this same friend feels conflicted about DeMille. She says she finds a misogynist streak in DeMille's...

from loralu

A great read about a "fictional" time during the 80's about the impacts of politics on the morals and ethics of actions (and inactions) surrounding USA-Russia relations. The story follows the lives of those in the US Embassy in Russia as they try to live their lives in a KGB-run Moscow and what h...

from Clara53

Excellent spy thriller, set in Soviet Union during the 1980s, with a surreal plot ("spy story of the century") but with writing that lacks in a number of ways (dialogues are a bit artificial, failed attempts at lyricism - to name a few). BUT it reads well - as the plot carries the book. I also ap...