I just ordered 6 volumes of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon. Was it a good choice?

I just ordered 6 volumes of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon. Was it a good choice?

Yes, but beware of the memes

It's a good narrative of the Roman Empire, but beware the following
>Opinions of Christfags
>Opinions of Byzantium
>Hatred of anything not Anglo

Will I not like it then?

So much cringe.

It's ok I'm a byzantine

The audiobook version is 127 hours.

That's how long it takes at a reasonable pace. You will never finish.

as of right now, it is better literature than History. dont expect modern experts to agree with him.
I love him, in the same way that I also like the works of Henri Pirenne, whose thesis isnt accepted by modern specialists, and in the same way I like the Conquests of Peru and Mexico by Prescott.

Read it but dont take it as a gospel, it is a book from the XVIII century. It isnt an up to date scientific book.

Why do you think the modern sjw made up we wuz kangz history would be better?

I love his phrases.

>those who refuse the sword must renounce the sceptre.

Do you think Historians who work in Oxford, Cambridge or Harvard think Cleopatra was black?

Yes they are pushing for it. It is a Jewish agenda. They control everything.

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You know Gibbon was a product of the enlightenment right? A lot of these modern shitlib historians are actually better on some of these subjects, especially the middle ages, because they no longer feel threatened by a dying christianity and focus instead on shit like video games and comic books.

Many modern works may be more accurate than Gibbons, but they still quote him.

It's a long shitpost basically.

>one of the most seminal histories ever written in the English Language
>a long shitpost

sounds about right

One excludes the other?

You mistake my post for sarcasm. I was being sincere.

If you read for three hours a day, it'll take a month and a half. Man up.

Fantastic prose but in terms of historicity it's dated. Also it's long as fuck, might be all you read this year.

It's a good choice, just be careful of his rhetorical bullshit. Make sure that you have his annotations, because they're like 50% of what make the Decline and Fall so fun to read.

t. """dark enlightenment""" retard who makes up spoopy stories about contemporary academia in order to feel better about flunking high-school

I am Greek

T. Assmad tumblrite who can't handle being mocked for believing stupid shit

It makes for great reading
but not for good history anymore.

You know the only reason why there's three KANGS threads a day is solely for /pol/tards to point and laugh at the niggers, right? Not even other blacks take "hoteps" seriously. You are one gullible motherfucker if you believed the memes enough not to persue higher education (though I'm pretty sure you were too retarded anyway).

Good literary work, bad historiography.

You're shouting at shadows, mate. Literally no one here has even implied they're an SJW and the only reason you're accusing them of being such is because they don't like an outdated, 19th Century history on Rome.

You identity politics faggots are insufferable.