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catsandteabooks 's review for:
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
by Paul Kriwaczek
I enjoyed this book immensely, knowing relatively little about the period. One of my favourite parts of this book was how comparisons were drawn between the past and the modern era and the way the author showed how the past drew into the present.
While this book took me a reasonable time to get into (and I didn't read on Saturday because I was very busy), once I was around two chapters in I could not put it down. I read the first 100 pages or so on the metro and after that was hooked and kept going back to it.
If you are interested in history, I would definitely recommend this book, however I would recommend not believing every word as true, given the amount of speculation needed to look at this time. As a general outline of the time period, however, this book is a fascinating read.
While this book took me a reasonable time to get into (and I didn't read on Saturday because I was very busy), once I was around two chapters in I could not put it down. I read the first 100 pages or so on the metro and after that was hooked and kept going back to it.
If you are interested in history, I would definitely recommend this book, however I would recommend not believing every word as true, given the amount of speculation needed to look at this time. As a general outline of the time period, however, this book is a fascinating read.