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Originally Posted by issybird
I'm not astrangerhere, but I didn't think it very good either. It's been a while since I read it, but the biggest flaw was the fictionalizing; it described people's actions in a fictional context that has no factual support - people smiling or tilting their heads and so forth, and, far worst of all, characterizing their thoughts. In addition, the author was prone to engage in hyperbole that got tired; the "smashed codes" of the title was done to death.
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I will add that I was annoyed in the opening pages and as a thread throughout that the men in the book seemed more important than the women whose story was being told did. I felt the same way about Jill Lepore's Secret History of Wonder Woman when I read it a few years ago.
I wanted him to tell me about the women, not about the men who made their story possible.