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Rémi Pillon groupe_chevalley — 8/10 Enjoyed this very much. This story follows the lives of the Maclise family from Sheffield at the beginning of the 20th century through 1st World War. Seven siblings must all overcome their own troubles to find what they are looking for. Especially the sisters Marianne, Iris, Eva and Clemency. Marianne must find a way out of a marriage she should never have agreed to and escape the wilderness of Ceylon and the rage of her husband Lucas. Iris must overcome her own vanity to find he love that was right in front her before it's too late. Eva escapes the family to pursue her dream of becoming a painter, but after meeting the Bohemian painter Gabriel Bellamy she forgets her own ambitions for love. And Clemency, left alone at home to look after mother with no prospect of marrying or escaping the family house Summerleight. Mix in three brothers, each completely different in character,mother that has taken to bed for the past 11 years and father who doesn't say sorry in fear of loosing his own pride and this makes fora pretty good read.

Wayne Lesher wayenlesher — My sister told me to stick with this book, that the ending was really wonderful. And she was right. It took me about 3 chapters--and about 6 months--to get fully hooked. After that, I was fascinated. I've always had a slight crush on Steve McQueen, due mainly to his role with Yul Brynner in "The Magnificient Seven" and the "Steve McQueen wore khakis" GAP campaign (Google it.) C'mon, he's the King of Cool. Now I actually admire him and feel empathy for him. I am going to start Netflixing his movies, too. Lots of them that I haven't seen yet. This book is pretty unsparing and doesn't try to saint Steve McQueen, but it also presents the entire arc of his life and shows why he was who he was. Hence, the empathy that I felt. Thoughtful biographies of famous people are scintillating because they strip away the myths and filters and show us who our icons really are. Sometimes, that means you'll be disappointed, but sometimes it means that you can see the humanity and feel more connected to the people that we idolize and admire. For example, I admire Paul Newman a bit less because of this book! Who woulda thunk?

Vitaliy Vitaliy _eitan — I had mixed feelings about this book. The book can be said to have three main aims: 1) Demonstrate a pattern of egregious omissions, fallacies, and irrelevant clutter across the most popular high school-level American history textbooks 2) Explain how and why this pattern came to be 3) Argue the effects on American students of this style of "teaching" I think that Loewen does a great job with point #1 and #3. Oft-cited historical figures were much more controversial than generally portrayed - eg, Helen Keller was not just an advocate for the disabled but a prominent member of the Socialist Party, Jefferson a skeptic of organized religion who wrote his own New Testament devoid of all miracles, etc. More importantly, textbooks fail to contextualize a host of movements and events, such as the role Columbus played in establishing the slave trade from Europe to the Caribbean, the backlash against Native American tribes like the Seminoles for their assimilation of runaway slaves and even disenchanted white colonists, and more. I found Loewen's examinations of these histories - heavily informed by the lens of a sociologist - to be the best part of the book. Arguing why these patterns exist is where I felt that Loewen fell short. In different parts of the book, he talks of the desire "to indoctrinate blind patriotism," unwillingness to spark controversy, a desire to illustrate history as a constant and forward march towards progress, the role of curricular boards in approving textbooks, the nature of the textbook publishing industry, and the laziness of its editors. These all seem like valid reasons for the shortcomings illustrated, but they soon become redundant and tired as more and more of the text is filled by Loewen's own meta-commentary. Moreover, as the book goes on, more of his examples tend to be omissions rather than mis-characterizations. And while I agree with him that there is a lack of critical analysis in the coverage of the Vietnam War or our entry into the second war with Iraq, Loewen's suggested analysis would replace current monotonous and uncritical textbook coverage with critical but one-sided (eg, heavy to the left) views of those conflicts. I also can't help but think that even half-decent coverage of America's interactions with the rest of the world would necessitate coverage of so much material that it's no wonder foreign policy gets a short shrift in US history textbooks - foreign policy should be a whole other course, or more, in and of itself. All in all, Lies My Teacher Told Me, is worth reading, but once you're halfway through, it's probably a better skim than read.