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Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt

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Four people voted on the usefulness of my original review, and none of them found it helpful. I guess that is reason enough to try to rewrite it. Whether a review is pro or con, it ought to explain enough about why the reviewer made the decisions they made to be useful to the people who read the review.

My main problem with this book was the writer's style. The book read like one long catalog of citations, or an overgrown footnote instead of a book. I recognize that the author wanted to place herself within the context of current theories and demonstrate that she knew what that range consisted of. It would have been more useful to me if she had discussed the theories and her opinions of them. I found the lists of historians useless and frustrating. I kept wanting to get to the meat of the issues, but all I found was pages and pages of these lists.

It occurs to me that what I was reading was a PHD thesis and not a book. I suppose there is a place for published theses, but my bookshelf isn't one of them.