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I give up on this book! I kept waiting for something to happen, something now, not years ago. I got to about page 85 and decided I had better things to do with my time. I flipped ahead and didn't see anything that looked like worth waiting for, so I'm done.
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Setelah membiarkan buku ini di rak buku nyaris 2 tahun lamanya, akhirnya beberapa minggu yang lalu saya memutuskan untuk membuka halaman pertamanya. Saya punya alasan kuat mengapa tidak langsung melahapnya begitu buku ini resmi menjadi penguni rak buku. Pertama, masalah ketebalan yang tidak diragukan lagi, belum lagi ditambah buku ini dikemas dalam bentuk hardcover. Kedua, tentu saja masih banyak buku yang lebih tipis lainnya. Namun sampai di halaman terakhir, saya sedikit menyesal kenapa tidak
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This book is getting three stars mostly because it was good enough to finish, but overall I felt that "The Historian" was quite a bit too long. The story is told in narrative, letters, ancient documents, lectures, and flashbacks. Sometimes it is hard to determine how many steps you are removed from the "present."
This is a Dracula story. I'm not much into horror, though I have read Bram Stoker's book which I thought was much more scary than any movie I have ever seen. You would think this book w ...more
This is a Dracula story. I'm not much into horror, though I have read Bram Stoker's book which I thought was much more scary than any movie I have ever seen. You would think this book w ...more

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