14/20

Pretty dry. Strictly architecture.

soooooo boring!!

A bundle of a couple of essays written rather long ago and only slightly corrected for this publication, which is also not exactly new. Some references and parallels are quite interesting, but otherwise just a scholarly book.

Made me never want to read a non-fiction book on Pompeii ever again. This is a translation and something definitely got lost here.



This is an excruciating look at the interior decoration and "use of space" at Pompeii. There's also a lot of bitching about Pompeii's remains not being properly treated. It's Pompeii! It was wiped out by a volcano! Think it may have been damaged already? Talk about shutting the barn door after the horse has not only bolted but ripped the door off its friggin' hinges.



I only gave the book one star for the illustrations, not for the text. This is a book for historians of Pompeii and not for the average reader.