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    <body><![CDATA[Waltari takes history and stretches it a little in every direction to make quite an interesting tale.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been working at this for a while.  I liked it a lot at first but it's a long book (570 pages) that just meanders through this guys life.  I'm 4/5th of the way through it but I don't think I'll finish it.  I read the last couple of pages and he has a last minute conversion while in line to be ea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8159831">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[finally finished. It took me ages to read it. I only have a few words to say, Cut it, people! There was lots of unimportant stuff there. Same parts were interesting and some parts I couldn´t get through.<br/>Maybe I wasn´t in awe about the book because I already read two books set in the same era...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43714455">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i really enjoyed this book, much more than i thought i would and much more than my last waltari book.  maybe it's because i felt a little more familiar with roman history than turkish history.  at any rate, the story was compelling and i couldn't put it down.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was extremely hard to get into but once I did, I was glad I chose to read this book. Reading this book made me want to start writing memoirs of my own; Although mine aren't nearly as interesting as the narrator of this wonderful Roman tale. ]]></body>
    
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