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Title: A good book encrypted here
Review: There is a good novel encrypted in this massive, messy book, had the author pared it down by ridding it of the unnecessary book-within-a-book-within-letters-within-more-letters structure and by purging the melodramatic cliches. A few examples of the later, cited by Paul, one of the several first-person narrators: "...made my blood run cold," "I felt the blood drain out of my head," "I felt the blood draining from my heart," my body ached profoundly," "It had cost me a terrible pang," and "A chill ran down my..." There are too many chills running, crawling, and snaking across Paul's various body parts to mention. There is a good plot and interesting historical research here, but for me these were ruined by the author's excesses. I found myself speed-reading through most of The Historian.
