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Title: a blatant margaret george [copy]
Review: How to describe this...?The words stilted, one-dimensional, ... come to mind. Oh, make no mistake -his prose is pretty interesting, but it ultimately falls out in character development. His characters come off as caricatures (Cleopatra as a sexette, Caesar as a barbaric sugardaddy, Mark Anthony as a buffoon, etc) speaking in soap-opera dialogue, and the better descriptions are heavily borrowed from Margaret George's "Memoirs of Cleopatra". The latter is a MUCH better book -longer, but more interesting. If you're in a limbo over which to read, pick the second.
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