A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom

Interesting concept. I wish there had been less ‘characters' though. Some chapters were immersive if short while others were dull and a little tedious.

I picked up A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom based on a list of books to read if you loved Cloud Cuckoo Land and while I can see why it made the list, the millennia spanning ideas, it lacked the intimacy and personal nature of CCL.

A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks does a similar concept with more fluidity and less chaff