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Before indie publishing I can imagine Mr. Harris going to his agent and editor giving a pitch... “I am going to write a story where everyone basically knows the ending, set it Pompeii, with a municipal engineer as the main character and I am going to throw in some hard science geology and volcanology at the beginning of each chapter ... best seller right!”
That said, a fast paced, enjoyable read, particularly if you like geology, volcanologist, the history of Pompeii, Roman aqueducts, and/or mun ...more
That said, a fast paced, enjoyable read, particularly if you like geology, volcanologist, the history of Pompeii, Roman aqueducts, and/or mun ...more
Pompeii is a truly different interpretation of the story of the 79 A.D. eruption of Mt Vesuvius. Instead of typically focusing on the city of Pompeii and its citizens, author Robert Harris makes an unknown Roman aquarius, an engineer appointed to oversee the Aqua Agustus the hero in his novel. Recently sent to Misenum to take over this largest of all aqueducts, Marcus Attilius Primus is not there long before he finds himself in trouble when the aqueduct runs dry and he must find the source of th
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Feb 22, 2020
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Just about everyone participating in the Poll Ballot Tally Challenge is reading Pompeii for Hawaii so I'm not going to put together a very long review. Readers already know a lot about the last days of Pompeii, and that everything and everyone, finally, will be overwhelmed by disaster.
Harris has obviously done a good job of research on volcanoes and aqueducts, and it shows. And it does make the story more interesting to use Pliny's words on the eruption of Vesuvius almost step by step to give th ...more
Harris has obviously done a good job of research on volcanoes and aqueducts, and it shows. And it does make the story more interesting to use Pliny's words on the eruption of Vesuvius almost step by step to give th ...more
Feb 02, 2020
Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos)
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