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Lustrum Book Review

” Lustrum ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. Rome, 63 BC . In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic’s greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy. The stories of these real historical figures – their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seductions, their brilliance and their crimes — are all interleaved to form this epic novel. Its narrator is Tiro, a slave who serves as confidential secretary to the wily, humane, complex Cicero. He knows all his master’s secrets — a dangerous position to be in.

Brief Summary Lustrum by Robert Harris

Harris’s craftsmanship and polish have slipped a bit since Imperium. The vocabulary and the sentences are slightly less interesting. There was less effort made in pruning down the large character list (the end of the book has a dramatis personae, but I only realized it was there after I had finished the book, so it did me no good). There was too much expository dialogue and too few scenes, like when Cicero is snubbed returning from Sicily, that let the reader infer emotions for himself. Overall, Lustrum gives an impression of being a second draft, whereas Imperium was a fourth or fifth draft. But the book, despite not being one of Harris’s most polished, is still far better than what’s typically published.What Harris still does particularly well, even better than in Imperium I thought, was to link the politics of ancient Rome to modern politics, to show how universal are human foibles.