You should read this book if you really liked Wolf Hall but thought, man, that should have been longer and more complex. This book is a trip though. It’s a 750 page novel about the French Revolution, told from a kind of both eagle-eye perspective and from a really getting into the muck and blood, kind of perspective. Told through long vignettes, long scenes of dialog, court-room records, historical transcripts, omniscient narration, first-person narration, and other weird snippets, and with a very wry tone, this novel […]