Started: 3/6/2020
Completed: 3/10/2020
Recommendation: Not recommended
Recommended By: President Obama
Review:
The minutiae of Thomas Cromwell do not interest me. I would say it is just Henry VIII trying to get his groove on, but I have read a couple of books that touch on this subject. I even read The Life of Thomas More a couple of decades ago and made it all the way through that--a much more boring read from the view of content. This book, however, I just could not take. The novelization did not catch me and I found the characters (though big players on the stage of their time) to be uninteresting. The dialog (maybe taken from letters?) did not grab me and I was constantly trying to figure out the time period of the book as it seems to jump back and forth in Cromwell's life with few clues that a transition had been made. I just don't get it and gave up half way through.
