What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
71
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Longest Book
761
pages
Average book length in
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280
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Eric’s
average rating for
2024
4.9
4.9
Highest Rated on Goodreads
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Eric’s first review of the year
it was amazing
Mary Renault’s “Last of the Wine” is a great read in so many ways. An adolescent Greek boy becomes a man as Athens falls to its enemies at the end of the Peloponnesian War. Through travel, Renault developed a passion for Ancient Greece, and she has weaved her story tightly into the actual dramatic events of that time, including in her novel many of the famous philosophers, politicians, soldiers and artists alive back then. But hers is more than a
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Eric’s last review of the year
it was amazing
A year-long voyage from England to the antipodes (Australia colony) aboard an old, barely sea-worthy English warship in the early 19th century could almost be compared to traveling from Earth to Mars today. This is not a trilogy in the vein of Horatio Hornblower, but a journey when traveling around the world was an accomplishment in itself. William Golding describes the voyage in this trilogy, the characters, the sailing of the ship and the sea i
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