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Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
" This book gets rave reviews, but I feel the author ruined the story with her inaccessible "voice." She constructs sentences awkwardly and frequently chooses obscure words rather than words the average person knows. I feel I have a pretty broad voc... " Read more of this review »
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
" "When Egypt Ruled the East" by George Steindorff this book is not.

I have read many books on Egyptian history all the way up through the Ptolemies who, somehow, through some sort of rhetorical magic, were made to be as dry and dull as dead leaves i... " Read more of this review »
Larry Wilson rated a book 2 of 5 stars
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
Cleopatra: A Life
by Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2011
I was very disappointed by this book, the primary reason being the author’s very choppy style. I found the style made it extremely hard to read with no flow to the narrative. Her style used strange placements of the basic sentence elements (I much pr...more
Larry Wilson rated a book 5 of 5 stars
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Larry Wilson rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Larry Wilson rated a book 2 of 5 stars
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Larry Wilson rated a book 5 of 5 stars
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Larry Wilson rated a book 4 of 5 stars
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Larry Wilson rated a book 3 of 5 stars
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Larry Wilson rated a book 3 of 5 stars
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
A Time to Kill
by John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
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