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Title: am I the only one?
Review: Everyone seems to love this book. I suppose if you're comparing it to Michener, it would be daring. As a historical novel, it is exhaustive. I'd rather read an ethnography, however. The writing is repetitive, unimaginative, and endless. The sex and violence is completely gratuitous; are we really to believe the Aztecs had small trained children performing ritual (and graphically described) sexual acts on people? I'm not a prude, but I felt as though Jennings was taking pleasure in describing some of the most violent and sickening acts by proxy. Clocking in at over 1000 pages, it has lost the battle for my attention.
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