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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2676684, member: 56859&quot;]Hmm.&nbsp; Well I don&#039;t know about a Doug-quality book report but I do like Nero and imagine that he wasn&#039;t the monster many believe.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve lost track of which contemporary and modern biographies I&#039;ve read, but the net result was my feeling that he was an artist at heart, perhaps not really good enough to be a professional musician/poet/actor (and of course he had the whole emperor thing going <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />), but that he was more of a hanger-on who tried to be an artist.&nbsp; Kinda like the rich guy guitar player who hangs out with musicians in the recording studio, financing various projects so they&#039;ll tolerate his presence and maybe allow him to contribute a track or two <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wasn&#039;t aware of the book but just did the Amazon one-click thing.&nbsp; Maybe I&#039;ll start it this weekend <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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