Milton Caniff, The Dragon Lady from Terry and the Pirates (1937-48)
(August 5) This took me ages to read. Only 225 pages, but it took months.
I put a library request in for it when I saw the author interviewed on The Daily Show. The story sounded fascinating!
But I quickly moved into this reviewer’s camp: “Promising in the beginning, the narrative is frustratingly repetitive and shallow. It's the story of an author’s frustration at being led on, told by leading the reader on. There's a compelling, fascinating, dramatic story to be told, it's unfortunate that Ms. Demery is unable to tell it.”
Many positive reviews say that they were pleased to learn more about the Vietnam War, and I did learn more about the Vietnam War, but that is kind of going to happen by default with this topic, I would think; and I thought Demery was repetitive even with the war information. The same coup was described at least three different times, with expanded detail each time, and each time as if we hadn’t covered that incident yet.
It all just felt so padded.
