Reviews

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 by Edward Gibbon, Hugh Trevor-Roper

sharkgozoom's review

Just not in a place to get into it it. It looks like it would take me some time to get in to Gibbons writting style and i just cant at the moment but i definitely try again 

flexasaurus's review

challenging informative reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.0

aetius's review

informative slow-paced

3.5

darwin8u's review

5.0

1680+ pages and I am now officially 1/2 done. Love Gibbon's sense of humor, his methodology, his hard bigotry towards the Huns, his soft bigotry towards the Christians, and his ability to find interesting nouns to link with rapine: "idleness, poverty, and rapine"; "rapine and oppression"; "violence and rapine"; "rapine and cruelty"; "rapine and torture"; "rapine and corruption"; "rapine and disregard"; "War, rapine, and freewill offerings" AND that is all just volume one. An important and interesting work, that moves with a quicker pace than its size or age would suggest. Bring on Volumes 4 - 6 and the decline of the HRE!