The Egyptologist
The EgyptologistArthur Phillips

The Egyptologist (2004)

Arthur Phillips

Creators: Disliked
ISBN:
9780812972597
Length:
416 pages

Genres: historical fiction

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This is like you're sitting on public transport, you're on the bus, you're sitting next to someone on the bus and they just won't stop talking to their neighbor. You can hear everything that they're saying. They're speaking obnoxiously loud and you just can do nothing in your power to stop yourself from hearing them speak and you wish for the love of God that they would stop speaking.

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