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This is light and breezy for a bio but man there's almost no primary sources about this woman and there's so many times that the author has phrases like "I am SURE that [Agrippina] would NEVER grovel to her brother."
— Nov 30, 2022 07:22AM
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I'm not sure if it's terrible or genius that this book opens with "Roman history? Yeah, it's truthiness is all on the level of that story about David Cameron allegedly fucking a pig." Like it's accurate but...
(Sidenote: They should have kept the British title for this book.)
— Nov 16, 2022 05:47AM
(Sidenote: They should have kept the British title for this book.)
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Nov 30, 2022 07:33PM
I read one of the author's other books and I just do not care for that style at all.
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Their house style is so weird??? It's so weird reading the word "boink" used seriously in this kind of book lol
Also out of curiousity was it a fatal thing happened on the way to the forum
Yep! To be fair, I really need to stop reading that compendium sort of pop history. I was wondering if a single-focus book might be better, but it sounds like no (for my personal tastes, obvs).
