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This is an enjoyable summer read, but I had very definite deja vu to 40 years ago and reading the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini in college. Both Cellini and Marton are engaging writers, but their almost psychopathic egotism makes for an interesting, if at times, exasperating experience. One of the reasons famous people's biographies are more interesting is because most of us are curious to see behind the curtains of the rich and powerful. For instance, Bill Clinton, versus the neighbor who lives across the street, visits Marton the morning after her third husband dies. However, we never really get a sense of the multitude of celebrities that parade through this book, since generally they are presented as one dimensional figures whose role is to reflect Marton's splendor. The book might have been subtitled "famous people who had the pleasure of meeting me." They fall into good (those who fawn over Marton) and bad (those who express any hesitancy) I must say I never felt as positive about Nancy Reagan as when reading about her cautiousness in allowing herself to be interviewed by Marton.
There is even a rather bizarre section where Marton simply posts a number of positive Thank you notes from famous people to her and her husband for their hospitality while he was UN ambassador. They read like your basic BS like pleasantries one puts in a thank you note, but she seems to take them literally. She hints at some deep dark side to her divorced husband Peter jennings, but the only tangible complaint is that he finds her self centered and ambitious, and one can see where he is coming from. Perhaps the strangest part of this memoir, is that it is filled with so many famous people, and yet so devoid of any actual friends. Through all her tribulations, not one close female friend ever appears. One wonders whether she filtered her non-celebrity friends out of the book for their and her privacy, or she simply filtered them out of her life. This is a fine book to read on a plane or at the beach, but it does leave you shaking your head.


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Paris A Love Story Kati Marton 9781451691542 Books Reviews

Marion has lived a full life, not only with family, husbands & children, but in the tempests of recent history— first involuntarily as a child in Communist Hungary, then on her own around the world as an ace reporter & wife/partner of a top-flight diplomat, and not least as an author, bringing attention to important, vivid, but overlooked persons & episodes of our times.
It was a little too "me" oriented. But, I understood why after getting further into the book. It was her life, a very open and interesting life. The affairs were bothersome, but since she was telling of her life, necessary. Some, in my book club, were put off by her infidelities. I did not judge her on the merits of such things. The full circumstances surrounding the infidelities were not disclosed. Not for me to judge.

I was troubled at first by her anger toward her parents after learning that she was of Jewish decent. Eventually, I believe she came to realize that the instinct for the survival of their children was the driving force behind their decision. When the decison was made, her parents had no idea how the issue would resolve.

Her description of Paris was beautiful. It is where she learned about herself and became the person she is. She is/was a very succesful woman.

I would recommend the book to a friend and let them make their own decision.
I enjoyed the book mainly because it was a small window in the life of Holbrooke and Jennings. Kati Marton's writing style is pleasant even though they were parts in the book that made me cringe (Holbrooke, the master diplomat and uber problem solver "taking" his wife to a store in Paris to buy her a dress where she dons several outfits for her husband in a private fashion show - what is this? "Funny face"? She doesn't say much about her children and she gingerly brushes off her infidelities in both marriages.

I share her love for Paris (where I live now) like so many others...

Thanks to this book I am reading now The Unquiet American Richard Holbrooke in the World, a book about Richard Holbrooke.
I saw Kati Marton on tv last week talking about this book. Hindsight being what it is, I probably should have gone with my gut when I wasn't very impressed with her in the interview. But, the book sounded interesting, so I bought it that day.

From almost the very beginning, I knew I wouldn't like the author or the book. Yet I kept reading. It got to the point where I didn't think I could dislike her any more, and then she said or did something to prove me wrong. I've never in my life encountered someone so self-absorbed. Of course, this book is just a snapshot of who she is, so I'm sure there are some redeeming qualities, but I just don't understand why none of them were shown in this book.

There were also mistakes in the book; there was one picture where she noted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in February 2001 (pretty sure she meant 2011) and then twice she mentioned having a brother, but he was nowhere else in the story; in fact, she referred to "the four of them" (her mother, father, sister and herself).

For someone who has written as much as she has and been a journalist her whole life, I was expecting more. Her style was very odd; seemingly HUGE events in her life - "ten years into our marriage I fell in love with another man" - are presented just like that and then nothing else is said about it. She would end chapters with just random sentences; chronology didn't seem to matter at all.

I would never recommend this book to anyone. I'm sorry for the losses that Kati Marton suffered, but many, many others have been through the same thing... without cheating on two husbands along the way. Also? No mention of Richard's sons in the acknowledgements at the end? Interesting.
This is an enjoyable summer read, but I had very definite deja vu to 40 years ago and reading the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini in college. Both Cellini and Marton are engaging writers, but their almost psychopathic egotism makes for an interesting, if at times, exasperating experience. One of the reasons famous people's biographies are more interesting is because most of us are curious to see behind the curtains of the rich and powerful. For instance, Bill Clinton, versus the neighbor who lives across the street, visits Marton the morning after her third husband dies. However, we never really get a sense of the multitude of celebrities that parade through this book, since generally they are presented as one dimensional figures whose role is to reflect Marton's splendor. The book might have been subtitled "famous people who had the pleasure of meeting me." They fall into good (those who fawn over Marton) and bad (those who express any hesitancy) I must say I never felt as positive about Nancy Reagan as when reading about her cautiousness in allowing herself to be interviewed by Marton.
There is even a rather bizarre section where Marton simply posts a number of positive Thank you notes from famous people to her and her husband for their hospitality while he was UN ambassador. They read like your basic BS like pleasantries one puts in a thank you note, but she seems to take them literally. She hints at some deep dark side to her divorced husband Peter jennings, but the only tangible complaint is that he finds her self centered and ambitious, and one can see where he is coming from. Perhaps the strangest part of this memoir, is that it is filled with so many famous people, and yet so devoid of any actual friends. Through all her tribulations, not one close female friend ever appears. One wonders whether she filtered her non-celebrity friends out of the book for their and her privacy, or she simply filtered them out of her life. This is a fine book to read on a plane or at the beach, but it does leave you shaking your head.