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Review: Have visited Rome twice before and wanted to get into the spirit before our upcoming trip, but sadly, this book generally fell short of the mark for me. There were several moments of enjoyment and delight, but I found it to be mostly self-indulgent and more often than not, did not enjoy the prose. Often I found things too "wordy" or phrased in a manner that detracted from the point he was wanting to make.Additionally, I wasn't pleased to discover that it was written in 1999. Although at the time there was much excitement about the upcoming new millennium, that excitement has now waned, and much of the book that was focused on that (as a result of being written when it was) is hard to get excited about today.I simply wanted to read something that would 'charge the batteries' and kick start our preparation of the upcoming trip, and although it did have some effect, it just didn't meet expectations for me.
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