![]() ![]() And I did like the style and find much of what was related about the Romans fascinating. Mind you, I've read history books about as dense with delight. This is only the first volume of six covering from 180 to 395 AD-and it's 956 pages of very tiny print. Partly, it's that I felt as if it was going on forever. In fact I found the prose rather elegant. ![]() And yet it's not that the prose was difficult or rambling or the subject boring. This is the slowest read I've ever encountered-slower reading than James Joyce's Ulysses. My rating reflects that ultimately I didn't want to stick with it I didn't find its pleasures and degree of informativeness worth the slogging through. ![]() I feel decidedly ambivalent about this book. ![]()
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