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I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the other…
So begins one of my favorite novels, one I revisited after thirty-two years’ absence. I see, from the flyleaf, that I gave the novel to my husband on father’s day 1991 – the year after our son was born – but my reading notes are from 1988. No doubt I might not ever have taken the novel up again but for a chance book club topic, “You Had Me at…a Great First Line” that was assigned for this month. (Our book club eschews assign
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It's hard to not give I, Claudius at least 4 stars because of how good the last 5+ chapters get. This is a heavy read, and for a large part of this book I really needed a family tree diagram drawn out to know who was who. It really was very difficult to keep track of relations, especially when people can have multiple names, nicknames, and even change their names, and to link them to the events going on in order as well. For a large part of the first half of the book the story was trying to fin
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