Quo Vadis in Around the World in 80 Books

Apr 03, 2017 Stil de scriitor rated it it was amazing

Dacă nu era perioada asta aglomerata, cu siguranță aș fi terminat cartea mai repede. Este un roman extrem de frumos și complex, care merită recitit de sute de ori!

Este o carte cu doua recenzii la mine pe blog. Una făcută in 2014, cand am citit prima data cartea si a doua oara in 2017, cand am recitit-o. Este genul de carte la care te intorci cu drag.

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Jun 15, 2021 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: the-classics-club, relationships, historical-fiction

How do you rate a book that you slogged through for two hundred and fifty pages, wanting to quit, hating the sappiness of the love story, cringing at the thou-thine-ye vocabulary of the characters' conversations...and then, completely unexpectedly, falling in love with the text for the last two hundred pages, flipping pages like you are reading a bestseller, fascinated with the descriptions of Nero's Rome, awestruck at the sacrifice and love the characters show for abominable people?

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Oct 22, 2012 Astrid Lim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classic, historical-fiction, religion, history

This book is quite personal so I don't think it will be a 4-star for everyone. I just think that the story about Nero, St Peter and St Paul here is very inspiring and pretty much stick to the Bible. I like any historical fiction based on the Bible stories, but this one so far is the most accurate- even though it still has some drama and romance that are of course fictional, but I can tolerate them, mainly because I love the protagonists especially Petronius- the antihero, no nonsense Roman guy. ...more

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Jan 06, 2010 Bogdan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: central-europe

I heard many good things about this novel, also about some of the movies made using the book, but I was still impressed in a good way by it. I liked the drama of the two lovers, same as the tragedy of the early Christians. I also took it as opportunity to take a glimpse into 1st century Rome. That mighty Rome that ruled most of the known world with all the aspects of a modern metropola. For all these reasons and many others I believe this to be one of the best novels I read recently.
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