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Rating 3/5
As a book written by someone who lived around 2000 years ago, this book felt so much alive and as if being told from not such a long time ago. The power of good text writing (and excellent translation!) is quite satisfying, right! :) Although when starting I felt that the book sounds like a wikipedia page, somehow it develops into my liking. I guess, the incredible characters of the emperors are simply entertaining and you can't help to wonder what will happen to every and each of them. It's interesting how Suetonius keeps on injecting premonitions as part of signs of someone might become an emperor and how their downfall may be. I bet that plenty of gossips must have been included in the text, but they must have been partly true, but even if you consider that some might be less true than the gossips are, your head keeps on spinning thinking what kind of lowness of life these people actually did (especially Caligula and Nero) to cause such spring of gossips!
Anyways, what I kept on thinking was also how these poor Roman people at that time having to live a life while dealing with the awful emperors. Especially when the emperors are horrible people who decided to use the entire country's saving for their parties and debauchery acts, and then forced the common people to give them money to do more of their parties! Horrible, horrible!
Still, a satisfying read about the life of Roman emperors. And aren't we're grateful that the house of Caesar was finally rooted out of the empire (job well done, finished by a Caesarian as well, Crazy Nero -__-).
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