- Paperback: 524 pages
- Publisher: PublishAmerica (February 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1413705626
- ISBN-13: 978-1413705621
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.3 x 3.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 785 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,283,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable reading,
By J Noble (Nashville Tennessee) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Young Julian (Paperback)
I felt the story was entirely plausable. I was staying in Rome at the same time I was reading the book and it had a substantial impact on how I viewed Italy, the Vatican, and to some extent the history of Rome itself. The book influenced my overall perspective on how the Christian Church as we know it today developed along with the support of the Roman State. How Roman politics played a major role in the development of Christianity some 300 years after the death of Christ. The author did a great job of entertaining through history and created a great story. This book easily rates higher than most "Best-Sellers" in that it is very enlightening as well as highly entertaining. So much so that I did not want the story to end.
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Embarassed for the author,
By kimina2 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Young Julian (Paperback)
This is one of the few novel I've read where I've actually felt embarassed for the author. I have never seen a book with so manny spelling errors and typos. It's as if the book was never edited. The book also contains some glaring factual errors. Finally, the book is repetitive and just plain puzzling at times. Here are a few examples. On page 228 Bishop Eusebius says to Julian, "What I would like to know first is whether or not you are a Christian?" Julian's answer has nothing to do with the question. After his answer Eusebius asks, "Are you a Christian?" Julian thinks to himself (the book is in the first person) that this question is interesting and caught him off guard since it came from "a different quarter." Huh? He just asked you the same question. The novel takes place over a number of years, but it is around 350 a.d. The author repeatedly states that Rome had control of Britain for 500 years at this point. That would go back to approximately 150 b.c. Rome didn't even control Gaul at that time. Britain was invaded in 43 a.d. so it should be about 300 years. He then repeatedly states that Hadrian's Wall had been in existence for 400 years! The wall was built in 122 a.d. At the end of Chapter 13 Julian is sent to Egypt to quell a revolt by Constantius. His brother Gallus (who was Caesar in the West) has been killed and a new Caesar has been appointed, Silvianus. Julian's wife refuses to leave Constantinople to follow him anywhere. Then Chapter 14 begins and Julian is in Gaul. He is Caesar. There is no discussion of what took place in Egypt, how he got to Gaul, how he was appointed Caesar, what became of Silvianus, or why his wife is now coming to Gaul when she has to this point refused to go anywhere with him. What annoyed me most about this book was that the author thinks that on every other page he has to have Julian ask a paragraph of retorical questions. In any event, the book, as you can see is poorly written. If you want to read a novel about Julian I suggest Gore Vidal's "Julian" or perhaps Ford's "God's and Legions", which isn't great either but it is much better than this drivel.
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