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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
On a more serious note, that's a book that's likely to remain on my TBR list forever. It's one of those books that I want to read -- that I feel an educated person should read -- but OMG, the sheer mass of it scares me.
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Penguin do a very good single volume abridged version of it
here.
As you say, it's a book everyone should read, but, on the other hand, many of Gibbons' ideas have been discredited by modern historians. The Penguin abridgement is very well done, and gives a good overview of what the whole thing is about.