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Title: A waste of time
Review: To be avoided unless you expect to live forever. Mr. Conrad piles up references from all the books he has (supposedly) read, namedropping furiously along the way. There is however no central idea, no real understanding of the perod he is writing about, he just rants on and on. Also the prose is stuck in a quagmire of cliches, very pretentious stuff - to clever by half, some would say, but not clever at all in my mind. You won't get anywhere with this volume of 750 pages.
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