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A review by stephybara
City of Darkness, City of Light by Marge Piercy
Did not finish book.
The first couple hundred pages of this book were very interesting - the French Revolution from the point of view of the vampire several different players (Robespierre, Danton, sans-culotte women and more) but I've really been struggling to read past page 300.
The one thing this is really bringing home to me is how long the revolution took; in school we just kind of learned "blah blah Bastille, blah blah Tennis Court Oath, and then there was a revolution, lots of people died, let's move on to Napoleon."
May 14 2009: I GIVE UP - if I haven't finished this by now, I'm not going to. (And I feel badly about it, because after 300 pages you'd think I could just finish it, but no.)
The one thing this is really bringing home to me is how long the revolution took; in school we just kind of learned "blah blah Bastille, blah blah Tennis Court Oath, and then there was a revolution, lots of people died, let's move on to Napoleon."
May 14 2009: I GIVE UP - if I haven't finished this by now, I'm not going to. (And I feel badly about it, because after 300 pages you'd think I could just finish it, but no.)