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Title: Not very good.
Review: I enjoyed Harris' "Fatherland", but I'm afraid I can't recommend "Pompeii". The plot was linear and predictable and the one-dimensional characters were just not very interesting. For a historical novel I expected more insights into Roman thought and culture, but those aspects of the book were pretty superficial.It's not a horrible book, but it's just fluff. Fuff with a touch of history, but fluff nonetheless. I expected better.
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