slow in spots but a good read
590367
how often we hear that such and such a person was guilty of this or that and take it as Gospel.  how wrong we can be and i thank the author for her detailed exploration of the events in the life of a doomed woman who never spied in her life.  i cannot imagine the insane amount of work required to complete such a book.  thanks pat, you did a great job.  some of the details of her life were tedious.  this is to be expected in any book, though.  the telling of the end of her life evoked much sadness.  i will not forget mata hari.
2630627
Good read, somewhat slow, more film noir style book.
1107938
Once you got to the point in the book that something happened it was a very good read but it took a while to get there.
2650755
Although I did enjoy the book it dragged on a bit.  A few too many sub plots but all-in-all a good read.
2837525
While the overarching story is intriguing the plot moves a little slowly and is fairly easy to predict. Still a good read but could use a better pace.
239300
I enjoyed this book very much, it did get a little slow in places but overall it is a good read
4266253
some parts seemed to drag on, but over all was a great read.
837060
This book took me awhile to get through, mostly because it sort of dragged on in the beginning and middle. The end was a good cap to the story line. All around a good read.
4915805
The author wove an intricate story involving several characters that was fascinating but slow moving at first. In the style of the time, he spent a lot of time building characters and describing every thought and detail in what I felt was an overly verbose manner. It took too long to get the plot going.  However, in the end, it all came together smoothly and neatly.
496549
Slow at the beginning - but after the first chapter I didn't want to put down - good read!
2873816
The book is a fast read through 2/3'ds of the way, then the author gets a little less descriptive of the thoughts and feelings of the characters about 2/3rds of the way through, but the pace does pick back up after a bit.
All in all, a book I would read again.
2326716
A little slow at first, but definitely a good read.
3667622
I thought that this book was a fairly good read, there were some spots where I couldn't put it down, and then there were spots when it went just to slow and seemed to take forever. But all in all it had a good plot, and I didn't guess the ending until most of the way through the book.
3107653
I found this to be an interesting read, though not great for reading on a tight deadline.  It is quite slow moving in the beginning and takes some time to get into.  I had only four working days to read this for my book club meeting, however, I only got through about 2/3 of it.  I did finish it after the meeting and found it to be quit enjoyable, but I think it would be more enjoyable to someone who was alive during some of the times she referenced (70s).  There was quite a bit of name-dropping of quasi-celebrities that I had not heard of and found myself taking breaks to google the names.
2961524
gets a little slow in spots, the racing end of it was very well done.  It was a good read but is wasn't a book burner where ouncw you started itnyou couldn't stop
2265917
Overall, I enjoyed the background of this book and the characters.  It was a bit slow in its movement.
4329295
Pretty good read, but a bit slow in places.  Probably a 4 plus so I gave her a 5. Try it.