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Is it worth reading?

>> No.11900890
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>>11900884
>title starts with "the"

>> No.11901467

>>11900884
Why don't you read a history book written by an historian?

>> No.11901476

>>11901467
no historian has written about this time specifically, in-depth
(sulla)

>> No.11901480

Judging by the title, no.

>> No.11901485

>>11901467
I wan to have an entertaining experience.....not find shit to fluff out an essay for some drug-addled academic to pretend to read.

>> No.11901491

>>11901476
>no historian has written about the most famous period in Roman history
You do know that if you just googled books about Sulla you would see a few, and if you googled books about late Roman republic you would find dozens.

>> No.11901499

>>11901485
>I wan to have an entertaining experience
Being an actual historian doesn't preclude enjoyable writing. Case in point Gibbons.

>> No.11901605

>>11901476
>no historian has written about this time specifically, in-depth
>(sulla)
Yeah. That sounds about right. No historian has ever written an in-depth book about one of the most important periods in history nor on one of the most important figures in Rome's history.

How the fuck did Mike Duncan ever get so popular? His podcasts are fucking atrocious. He spends weeks prepping up to deliver his dry, unfunny Wikipedia-tier reads, and even then he manages to fuck it up.