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Decline and fall of the roman empire5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() The book itself tends to be ?one damn thing after another? and unless you keep up and concentrate, you quickly loose the thread. Nevertheless, it is something of a tour de force to read the long, and to our modern ears, difficult to follow sentences and Madoc makes sense of what we are hearing. ![]() Neville Jason who reads the intervening passages comes as a relief. When you start listening you think ?oh yes this is the voice of Gibbon? but after a while his sonorous tones get on your nerves ? and he sounds too old. I was quite irritated by Philip Madoc?s voice. I suspect that reviewer Andrew from Dublin has read the whole work and is better placed to judge. To be honest, it?s a bit of a challenge to listen to and I?m certainly not enough of an expert to review the book as such ? but I think this abridgement is OK. ![]() This is an extraordinary book! And although I listened to both parts, it is really during the second part, and especially with the account of the fall of Constantinople, that I was gripped ? and astonished. An excellent way to read Decline and Fall ![]()
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