![]() ![]() ![]() Although the books are very good reads off the written page, in Audio, Derek Jacobi further breaths a rich vitality to the tale, his voice conveying young and old, women and men with equal east and no artifice. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?Ī short paragraph about Calpurnia was touching - in Claudius the God.īased on the histories of Suetonius and Tacitus, Robert Graves has given the world two great novels covering the era of first Emperors of Rome. ![]() I frankly enjoyed the whole book - it's like a symphony or a concerto, one has to listen to it all, and both books at that. What comparison can one make? Except to say that despite having been written 70-80 years before, I Caudius (and Claudius the God) reads as easily as any novel by the excellent Mr Robert Harris, or John Grisham or Val McDermid. What other book might you compare I, Claudius to, and why? If you could sum up I, Claudius in three words, what would they be? ![]()
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