Reading Caesar's The Gallic War, there are a couple of rival soldiers called Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus mentioned in it briefly which if you've seen Rome you'll know are two of the lead characters.
Interesting. My mother had to read "The Gallic Wars" book as a kid as part of her Latin classes.
Actually, in the novel I mentioned earlier (Tros of Samothrace)
Julius Caesar is the arch enemy of the titular hero!
Interesting. My mother had to read "The Gallic Wars" book as a kid as part of her Latin classes.
Actually, in the novel I mentioned earlier (Tros of Samothrace)
Julius Caesar is the arch enemy of the titular hero!
Yes the Latin part is on the left and the English on the right, it's a very factual account with no rhetoric and not the most exciting thing really, but the author was more of a soldier and statesman, prefer Tacitus and Suetonius to be honest.
Have you read those in order? The first book in the series, The Various Haunts of Men, had a really (to me) unexpected ending which meant I fell in love with the Simon Serailler books. Looking forward to the new one.
No, this was the first I've read, and barring a cataclysmic event that deprives the world of all other printed material it will also be the last one I will read.
Only my own bloody mindedness and a diversion into a rather more engrossing monograph on ethics in clinical research; the NIHR updated guidance on research passports and the National Dementia Strategy kept me going to the end. In fact, the best thing I can say about it is that it gave me the motivation to finally get on with some necessary reading for work.
I've officially become a Kathy Mallory film, overcoming some misgivings with style. Crime School was brilliant. I originally started reading them because I read she was like Salander in the Millenium series, but I think the more obvious parallels are with everyone's fave noughties icon and sociopath, Dexter Morgan.
The Book of Evidence, by John Banville. I love his writing, so am looking forward to this story of the theft of a painting, and the murder of a witness.
Sunday I started reading Dean Koontz - Life Expectancy and finished it yesterday (Tuesday evening) Then last night I started reading Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts, so far I'm 2 stories in.
Recently started 'Massive' by Mickey Hutton.
I knew nothing about the story or the author. Bought it in a cheap shop for £1. I'm enjoying it so far, quite surreal and funny.
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Ooh, I love Sophie Hannah - is it good?
Interesting. My mother had to read "The Gallic Wars" book as a kid as part of her Latin classes.
Actually, in the novel I mentioned earlier (Tros of Samothrace)
Julius Caesar is the arch enemy of the titular hero!
Just finished it. It was brilliant as usual, however my favourite is still "Hurting Distance" with "Little Face" only slightly behind.
Just started "Evidence" by Jonathon Kellerman.
Yes the Latin part is on the left and the English on the right, it's a very factual account with no rhetoric and not the most exciting thing really, but the author was more of a soldier and statesman, prefer Tacitus and Suetonius to be honest.
No, this was the first I've read, and barring a cataclysmic event that deprives the world of all other printed material it will also be the last one I will read.
Only my own bloody mindedness and a diversion into a rather more engrossing monograph on ethics in clinical research; the NIHR updated guidance on research passports and the National Dementia Strategy kept me going to the end. In fact, the best thing I can say about it is that it gave me the motivation to finally get on with some necessary reading for work.
Just starting The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
The follow up to the excellent "Wolf of the Plains"
Part two of a trilogy concerning the life of Genghis (should really be Chingiz) Khan.
Pretty good so far.
I've officially become a Kathy Mallory film, overcoming some misgivings with style. Crime School was brilliant. I originally started reading them because I read she was like Salander in the Millenium series, but I think the more obvious parallels are with everyone's fave noughties icon and sociopath, Dexter Morgan.
supposedly as good as Patricia Cornwall, its getting there. Hiya Lizzy *waves*
Loved it. I saw the film first actually, that's what took me to be book, and a rarity, they actually completed each other.
At the moment I'm reading Death on Credit by Celine.
I knew nothing about the story or the author. Bought it in a cheap shop for £1. I'm enjoying it so far, quite surreal and funny.