Late Bloomers

Rating:
Summary: Sad research
Review: .....and flippancy made me glad I could see the book before almost buying it.

It was a dissapointment dispite the hopeful title. Really does a number on Mary Baker Eddy at a time when probably the best researched book on her life, by Gillian Gill, has just come out the last year and corrects many a falacy. This perpetuates bad scholarship and is simplistic about many a complicated life, for example Coco's unfortunate collaboration with Nazism during the war.

Rating:
Summary: Extremely superficial coffee-table book
Review: A one-page "biography" per person, many of whom truly don't qualify as "late bloomers" at all, unless we take a "late bloomer" to signify a person who didn't die young. But that's beside the point, the point is, the book is way too superficial, it's truly useless, it communicates no interesting information whatsoever. And at such a degree of, so to say, chronological compression, it's no wonder.

A piece of junk, really.

Rating:
Summary: heard taped version and found it inspirational
Review: though i would have liked to have seen more detail on each individual . . . inspirational and got me thinking: i still have a long way to go . . . in fact, we all do!