Friday, May 16, 2014

THE COLOSSEUM - Keith Hopkins & Mary Beard



Very disappointing, it reads like a television script rather than a book.  Its covers the history but is very shallow and its full of slang  i.e they " scarpered" when they saw the animals.  I hate slang when there are perfectly adequate words that are much better to use.

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