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Sissi, the Tragic Empress: The Story of Elisabeth of Austria by Ludwig Merkle, Ingrid Taylor
stellar_raven's review
3.0
I debated on just how to rate this book, I finally decided to go with 3 stars, because despite its faults I did actually like the book. It has a lot of lovely pictures, some of which I'd not yet seen before.
The text itself is, for the most part, factually sound. It gives one a broad overview of Sisi's life, and thus could possibly be of some use to someone wishing to know more about her, but not wanting to attempt one of the lengthier biographies. But, only if one to were to read it with the knowledge not to take everything in the book as the gospel truth. Which leads me to say:
Please be warned: With this book, you will not be getting a very balanced look at Sisi's life. For whatever reason, this author seems to be very negatively biased toward the Empress, and it shows in the text.
She was far from perfect and made many mistakes, but she wasn't quite as bad as the author makes her out to be at times, at least in my opinion at any rate.
I got a copy of this book used and paid less than $5 dollars for it. It's definitely worth that much for the pictures alone.
The text itself is, for the most part, factually sound. It gives one a broad overview of Sisi's life, and thus could possibly be of some use to someone wishing to know more about her, but not wanting to attempt one of the lengthier biographies. But, only if one to were to read it with the knowledge not to take everything in the book as the gospel truth. Which leads me to say:
Please be warned: With this book, you will not be getting a very balanced look at Sisi's life. For whatever reason, this author seems to be very negatively biased toward the Empress, and it shows in the text.
She was far from perfect and made many mistakes, but she wasn't quite as bad as the author makes her out to be at times, at least in my opinion at any rate.
I got a copy of this book used and paid less than $5 dollars for it. It's definitely worth that much for the pictures alone.
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