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Title: Bad Memory
Review: This is a book of Gellhorns recollections of trips thru China, Africa and Africa.Her writing is such,... so lacking in substance that you feel she is making it up. It doesn't feel genuine. PLUS! and here's the real killer... SHE DOESN'T REMEMBER!. All through the book she states how she doesn't remember this or that, so often that the whole book comes onto question. The trip to China with her then husband Ernest Hemingway was a total blow out. She wasn't sure about anything.The second story, her first trip to Africa, was the best in the bunch.The last trip to Africa was totally unbelievable. Fiction.She can not remember enough to make a coherent record of her journeys.Also for someone who loves to travel and has spent her life doing so all around the world-- she has no camera! No interest in them. No pictures.I've also read 'The View from the Ground' and wasn't impressed.
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