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A review by stephenmeansme
How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
3.0
3.5 stars rounded down for the audiobook narration.
The actual text has some real whammy passages, so I do want to read Seneca more fully: maybe even this specific book in paper form. The problem is that the audiobook narration is quite uninspired. It was hard for me to distinguish between the editorial parts and the Seneca parts, and the narrator used a mostly flat cadence that didn't do Seneca's prose (er, translated epistolary verse?) any favors.
The actual text has some real whammy passages, so I do want to read Seneca more fully: maybe even this specific book in paper form. The problem is that the audiobook narration is quite uninspired. It was hard for me to distinguish between the editorial parts and the Seneca parts, and the narrator used a mostly flat cadence that didn't do Seneca's prose (er, translated epistolary verse?) any favors.