However, you and Titanites seem to disagree because you provide glowing reviews from people who surely must have read the book and couldn't possibly be planted stooges on Amazon, while Titanites is offering a very negative review of the book.
Someone must be telling tales, don't you think? Here's another review from Amazon...
What is one to say about a concoction allegedly based on her life, appearing in the United States under the title La Popessa? This is a world apart from the genuine memoirs of the nun; it is a world of arbitrary invention, carried at times to the wildest extremes. I refrain from giving examples, with which I could fill scores of pages of this book. Sister Pascalina was simply the Pope's housekeeper, yet to her is attributed a throughout [sic] knowledge of the most involved Church affairs, a memory of conversations of sixty years earlier, a brashness in dealing with high ecclesiastics, and power and influence over the Pope, all utterly without documentation, utterly unbelievable: she actually composed with the Pope one of the greatest theological encyclicals in the history of the Papacy, Mystici Corporis Christi! "The pseudo-Pascalina book", says Fr Graham, "is at best a practical joke on an unsuspecting public. At worst, it is a new low in U.S. book publishing."
So which is it? A great book that vindicates Pacelli or another book that slanders him and his "secretary."
To me "La Popess" is, as I said, a fascinating read and a further glimpse into the very strange life of Pacelli and those who have and continue to defend him.
You wrote:
“Yes, I’ve read the book, Vlad. And you should, too. And so should Titanites and anyone who wants a clearer picture of Pacelli.”
To get a clearer picture of Pius XII - and I already have a very clear one based on plenty of reading - I would read Sister Pascalina’s autobiography and not a book supposedly about her. To get a clearer picture of historical events we must read primary sources.
“However, you and Titanites seem to disagree because you provide glowing reviews from people who surely must have read the book and couldn’t possibly be planted stooges on Amazon, while Titanites is offering a very negative review of the book.”
We do not agree. I never said the point of view was mine. I notice that you are not refuting what the reveiwer I quoted claimed even though it would directly dispute your own posts here. Why is that? No, instead you are trying to say Titanites and I disagree when we don’t.
“So which is it? A great book that vindicates Pacelli or another book that slanders him and his “secretary.””
You could easily resolve which it is by refuting or supporting what the reviewer I quoted said. How about it?
“To me “La Popess” is, as I said, a fascinating read and a further glimpse into the very strange life of Pacelli and those who have and continue to defend him.”
But does the book say what the reviwer I quote said it says? Does it? I have no idea. Why don’t you tell us?
You seem to love any work of Catholic-hating fiction that hits the shelves.
Again, there can be no surprised among those who know your work.