![]() Ganser really enters into the spirit of the project, really bringing these deaths to life, as it were. These are lists of factoids, perhaps?īragg’s style is vivid and conversational, and narrator L. After killing off Caesar, Bragg provides a list of things named after Caesar, and so on. For example, since Beethoven was a Romantic composer, Bragg includes a list of other Romantic composers. Likewise, if there were myths about how someone died (most notably Cleopatra), Bragg makes a point of debunking those.īragg also includes things that aren’t easily classified, and might be considered padding. ![]() If the person’s death had implications or aftermath, like Einstein and the postmortem investigations into his brain, or Curie and her still-radioactive notebooks, Bragg includes those. I can be cooking or washing dishes and still enjoy hearing how many times Julius Caesar got stabbed, and how many of the conspirators failed to land a strike. This sort of content divides easily into units, and, to be frank, can be listened to without the most intense attention. In this book, Bragg discusses sketches the lives of famous people (Madame Curie, Marie Antoinette, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, etc.), and then discusses their deaths, often in lurid detail and descriptive prose. Some kinds of books are better as audiobooks, and I would argue Georgia Bragg’s How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous is one of those books. ![]()
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