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I'd really enjoyed Dr. Finkel's Youtube videos about cuneiform studies and related topics, and was eager to pick up this book. And for most of the way
I'd really enjoyed Dr. Finkel's Youtube videos about cuneiform studies and related topics, and was eager to pick up this book. And for most of the way through it was fine -- not brilliant, but I probably would have rated it three stars. Then, in the space of a couple of pages, it went straight to a DNF. The central character is a psychopath: okay. When faced with what appears to be a text he can't translate, which would then challenge his position of power, his response is to start murdering almost everone who saw the stone. Okay. Not somebody I especially enjoy reading about, but I liked the exploration of ancient Mesopotamian society. But then the villain's henchman -- who has vaguely-defined mental disabilities -- gratuitously rapes two women. Not for any plot reason; just because they're there. The story specifies that he rapes the mother once and the daughter twice, and that they might have already been dead when he did this. Which was unpleasant and unnecessary . . . but a few pages later the henchman shows up again with a new rape victim, unquestionably dead, *stuck on him*. I stopped reading right there. And it's going to be difficult for me to watch Finkel's videos after this, because that kind of casual violence against women, for no other reason than to hammer home that These People Are Bad (a murder spree doesn't make that clear enough?), pushing the needle all the way over into necrophilia, makes me regret I ever bought the book.
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