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Summary: A Perfect Book for History Lovers
Review: The fact that this book is one of the most stunning books that i have ever read kinda crept up on me. It begins simply enough in the time of Herodotus and tells us in flashback the tale of a man who met some of the greatest thinkers of any age: Zoroaster, Buddha and Confucius. Along the way we are given a tremendous insight into the workings of the Greek, Persian, Indian and Chinese Worlds of the 5th Century BC.What most amazed me, however, is that the book gets better and better as it goes on with the different views of reality bouncing off each other. In that dryly-humorous way that is uniquely Vidal's, each page says something to make you stop and think.
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Summary: Buyer Beware!
Review: There is a problem with the most recent production of the soft cover version of this book. I purchased this version from Amazon a couple of months ago and after reading about 100 pages, I could continue no further. After the first hundred or so pages, the pages are bound wrong. They are all out of order. Amazon replaced the book for me with no questions asked, but the replacement they sent me had the same problem. I went to a local book store to purchase it and... THE SAME PROBLEM! So, if you really want this book, and you do not want to go crazy sorting through the entire novel to find the next page, buy the hardcover version...
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