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Open your mind

Review from The Assassination of Julius Caesar →

a brilliant, staggering expose of what Parenyi he refers to as “gentleman’s history,” or history told by the victors, the powerful, the owners of capital. He sheds a light on the facts of Caesar’s assassination, and how it was entirely tied to his efforts to improve the lives of the poor, the working class, the..

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Class Perspective

Review from The Assassination of Julius Caesar →

I really enjoyed this books take on the History of Caesar. It didn’t occur to me to view him from a materialist /class perspective, since we are so inundated with the perspective of him as a tyrant and the conspirators as defenders of the republic, where it seems more like they killed him out of..

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Great Story! Questionable Narrator

Review from Awaken Online: Catharsis →

I enjoyed this story but the Narrator’s character voices are just painful. unless I missed something, the main character is around 18 years old. For some reason, the Narrator chose to use a prepubescent boys voice. that being said, I decided to finish the book and I enjoyed the story.