Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
Once Again for Thucydides
Peter Handke · 1998
74/100
👍 Worth It
A quiet, exquisite minor work from a Nobel laureate — seventeen vignettes that train your eye on ash trees and shoeshine men with the same precision Thucydides brought to war. The Thucydidean frame is genuinely earned, not a gimmick. This is a book for a very specific reader who loves language itself as the subject, and that reader will adore it.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety90
substance70
craft88
originality82
accuracy80
hype72
age-fit75
human-eye76
Penny’s verdict74
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