Just completed Robert Harris’s worldwide bestseller, ‘Pompeii’. I don’t think I’ve ever got through a 400 page novel so fast. Whether that it was the thrill of the tale, or a desire to avoid getting buried by the eruption, it’s hard to say.
This is a great story and readily captures the immediate build-up to the cataclysm we all know about. It’s not hard to see how the self-serving, careless attitude of some of Harris’s characters mirrors some of the idiocies displayed today around impending disaster. This is not a hard read, despite the Roman names and the odd bit of Latin, nor a new book, but thoroughly recommended.
Pompeii (Penguin Random House 2003)
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