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kleinbl00  ·  2999 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 7, 2016

I'm now five books into Will Dutton's opus and the point he makes over and over is that even the most deboucherous and licentious city-states of history were largely composed of ordinary people having ordinary lives and enjoying ordinary things. Rulers that kept things peaceful for half a century get a sentence or two; those that destroyed culture in a few brief years get chapters.





mk  ·  2999 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Alas, added to my list.

kleinbl00  ·  2999 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's a fuckin' matterhorn. I'm doing them as audiobooks and just getting to book 5 is longer than A Song of Ice and Fire.