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iphigenie72 's review for:
Quo Vadis?
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
An historical drama that dwells into an epoch I know dimly. Sure, I knew about the burning of Rome and the persecution of Christians and the majority of the world changing events included in this story, but the author gives it a tone of reality; in fact, it took a strong stomach to read through the different persecutions (I do have a vivid imagination).
The characters do lack something, the story is so sweeping that they fall on the way side. I mean, as fascinating and interesting as the narrative is, the people inhabiting it are not fully realized, they didn't seem real to me excepting St. Peter who I was a little in awe of even though I'm an atheist.
This is worth being read and a lot of people must have thought that when it was first published since it did win the Nobel of Literature.
The characters do lack something, the story is so sweeping that they fall on the way side. I mean, as fascinating and interesting as the narrative is, the people inhabiting it are not fully realized, they didn't seem real to me excepting St. Peter who I was a little in awe of even though I'm an atheist.
This is worth being read and a lot of people must have thought that when it was first published since it did win the Nobel of Literature.