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Pompous and unenlightening

Revisado: 07-14-07

This audiobook combines a 50,000-foot view of the French Revolution with the worst, most pompous, unbearable narration I've heard yet (made even worse by the melodramatic music soundtrack).

The book teaches the reader astonishingly little about the various actors involved in the revolution or their motivations. Instead it describes the events in terms so overbroad (the peasants did this; the nobility did that) as to reduce this period to a "Risk" game between faceless factions of 18th century French society. Worse, it offers so little real insight that it fulfills virtually none of the best purpose of studying such a bloody period: to avoid repeating it.

I give it a "2" because there certainly are many books on the market that are worse. But as a learning experience, this rates a zero.

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