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Historical Heartthrobs: 50 Timeless Crushes—From Cleopatra to Camus by Kelly Murphy, Hallie Fryd
5.0
Coming January 2014 from Zest Books.
Never have I had so much quick-fire knowledge thrown at me about 50 very different (and mostly, by now, dead) people, and still chuckled my way through it. Because it was amusing. And even if the written humour isn't your taste, all the little clip art-like pictures related to the text ought to make even the grumpiest cat smile. Some of them are rather witty indeed.
To get down to the facts, each individual among the 50 heartthrobs get the exactly same treatment: Life Story, The Story of Their Sex Life, Why They Matter, Best Feature and Heat Factor – on a scale from one to five. Additionally, all get a blurb with quotes either by them or about them.
Each little headline is followed by a concise yet thorough re-telling of the individual's life in relation to said headline – it's tidy, it's entertaining and it's rather educational, if not for anything else, then to brush up one's knowledge on various historical figures.
Never have I had so much quick-fire knowledge thrown at me about 50 very different (and mostly, by now, dead) people, and still chuckled my way through it. Because it was amusing. And even if the written humour isn't your taste, all the little clip art-like pictures related to the text ought to make even the grumpiest cat smile. Some of them are rather witty indeed.
To get down to the facts, each individual among the 50 heartthrobs get the exactly same treatment: Life Story, The Story of Their Sex Life, Why They Matter, Best Feature and Heat Factor – on a scale from one to five. Additionally, all get a blurb with quotes either by them or about them.
Each little headline is followed by a concise yet thorough re-telling of the individual's life in relation to said headline – it's tidy, it's entertaining and it's rather educational, if not for anything else, then to brush up one's knowledge on various historical figures.