The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

The Lady in Gold

The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

2012 • 349 pages

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15

Maybe more like 3.5 stars, but I'm not willing to bump this one up to 4 like I have some others... This was a very interesting book and parts of it were really interesting and enjoyable. I really enjoyed reading about early 20th century Vienna, Adele, and Klimt. The battle for the painting at the end was really interesting too, but I wound up coming out of that hating everyone... Other parts just dragged on and on and was very redundant at times. I couldn't always keep track of who was who because there were so many people. And there were some very poorly worded sentences and paragraphs; some I had to reread a few times to understand properly. There were also a lot of typos that I would have hoped would've been caught before a second printing... A pretty uneven book for me. It had its good parts and its bad, but I am glad I read it.

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