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Title: Good Content, Poor Form
Review: There is no doubt that Roberts knows his history, and he has performed admirably in reducing the epic content to some 500 pages or so, but nonetheless I found his writing style tedious and cumbersome. Robert's sentences are disjointed and liberally populated with unnecessary commas. I often had to reread a paragraph because of some parenthetical remark that seemed placed specifically to disrupt the reader's flow of logic. I also felt that his history was slightly biased in favor of Britain, inasmuch as they often appeared to be the heroes of world history, but any history is bound to be biased on some level. In the end, I think you could find a better read.
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