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Title: So Well Done
Review: The Dream of Scipio is an extremely well done novel--a challenging read involving three different characters at three different points in history. All are in the same French town, and each one affects the characters who exist after them. The story flows marvelously, moving seamlessly from one historical period to the next. The three main characters are concerned with, and perhaps obessessed with making morally correct decisions in an seemingly immoral world. Each lives in a time when tremendous calamities of historical consequences were occuring around them and all over Europe. The decisions they make are not easy and the later characters look for guidance to a writing by the Manlius, the first of the characters. The Dream of Scipio is a highly interesting read, on that I enjoyed immensely. If you are not afraid of a philisophically grounded novel, pick this one up. You won't regret it.
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