Mak seems to do very well in writing about the "little picture". Now, whenever you read history books, individuals tend to blend together, as the story focuses on the general current, or the mentality, or just as we know it, the "big picture". I'm sure one day I'll get back to this book and still be amazed by it.Īnother thing is the ability of the writer to describe people. How in the world did the author manage to comprise so much knowledge into such a "succinct" piece of work is a question that I'll probably keep asking for years. Not only do you get a spectacular narrative, which is in and by itself very hard to encounter nowadays, but I bet if you listed out all the trivia in this book, it would take you months to finish it. Don't get me wrong, I've read heftier books, but this one is a class beyond everything out there. It is unbelievable, I kid you not, the sheer quantity of information that you get from these 800 pages. The thing that I want to start out with is the depth in which Mak has gone in order to produce this. It's been about two weeks since I finished the book and I wanted to add a couple of thoughts to the review, because I feel like such a work deserves more praise than I managed in the original lines.
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