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Lara
Mar 08, 2020 rated it liked it
I loved I, Claudius so much but struggled to get through this one after I'd read about halfway. The book read like a litany of events with no narrative tension to make any of it matter. The writing is wonderful and the history is interesting but I much preferred the first book. ...more
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Shelves: historical, political
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