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<p>[QUOTE="Magnus Maximus, post: 5166304, member: 73473"]I'm only about five chapters in so take my opinion with a block of salt, but it is an enjoyable read that does have a lot of "filler" material. Anna goes into details about things that do not interest me sometimes, i.e. genealogies of certain individuals or the titles they have accumulated. That said, she does an excellent job with a narrative history and keeps it interesting and simple. I particular like her call backs to ancient persons(she mentions Scipio Africanus and Hannibal in chapter 1) or to long dead poets(Homer being the only one I can remember now). Anna also purposely uses anachronistic names for ethnic groups; in one chapter she calls a Norman rebel a Celt, while in another she calls the Pechenegs the name of the long extinct Dacians.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Magnus Maximus, post: 5166304, member: 73473"]I'm only about five chapters in so take my opinion with a block of salt, but it is an enjoyable read that does have a lot of "filler" material. Anna goes into details about things that do not interest me sometimes, i.e. genealogies of certain individuals or the titles they have accumulated. That said, she does an excellent job with a narrative history and keeps it interesting and simple. I particular like her call backs to ancient persons(she mentions Scipio Africanus and Hannibal in chapter 1) or to long dead poets(Homer being the only one I can remember now). Anna also purposely uses anachronistic names for ethnic groups; in one chapter she calls a Norman rebel a Celt, while in another she calls the Pechenegs the name of the long extinct Dacians.[/QUOTE]
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