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Review Date: 3/8/2008
Helpful Score: 1
This is a classic in every sense of the word. A group of schoolboys in ancient Rome sets out to solve a series of mysteries -- and evading serious trouble while doing so. Well-written, exciting, funny, and sneakily informative about imperial Rome.
Review Date: 4/4/2008
Helpful Score: 1
Fascinating snapshot of the last days of the Raj in India, told through a series of letters from an English-educated Indian to a sympathetic British colonel's wife he met once. No proponent of revolution or of Ghandi, the writer, a judge, acknowledges India's debt to the Empire, while musing on the universality of selfish narrow-minded people and honoring the exceptional individuals he worked with. Touching and readable.
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