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Book Review of Pompeii

Pompeii
Pompeii
Author: Robert Harris
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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The long drawn out death agony of Pompeii and Herculaneum - a full day of falling ash, pumice stone, and then the final catastrophe, a cloud of poisonous gas - is brilliantly done. Explosive stuff indeed. Blazingly exciting. This book is new and still has dust cover. I was very careful with it when I read it.