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Title: A decent novelization of a brilliant film
Review: Dewey Gram has produced a readable novelization of Ridley Scott's brilliant new film "Gladiator." There are some minor dialogue differences from the film and a few extra scenes, and he doesn't go into the character's motivations as much he might, but he at least does slip in some historical details and the book is a nice substitute for the film until the VHS and DVD versions are available! It would have been useful, incidentally, to include an afterword pointing out the differences between the film's version of history and what really happened. Interested readers are directed to book I of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" which, no surprise, begins with Commodus.
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