Im currently reading the traveller by John Twelve Hawks
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Im currently reading the traveller by John Twelve Hawks
I'm just about to finish Rubicon by Tom Holland.
ranges of books on hypnotize thing, suddenly got interested.
Walter Goffart's Rome's Fall and After. And about fifty other things. Damn thesis paper.
Cheers.
Im currentely reading Thundering Zeus by Frank.L.Holt
Just finished:
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That is "The Roman Art of War" in English
And now started with
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no longer available in German, therefore in English
Right now? "Motor Trend."
I assume you mean book-wise though. The Camulod Chronicles, by Jack Whyte. The First book in the series is Skystone. Also reading The Roman Army at War, by Adrian Goldsworthy.
Yesterday I finished "Rubicon" by Tom Holland (which was great by the way) and I have just started "The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece" by Victor Davis Hanson.
I'll just quote myself elsewhere:
Those are ones from cover to cover. Also a lot of articles, and various books and articles for an essay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geoffrey S
subtle knife by phillip pullman. nothin to do with antiquity in the SLIGHTEST :clown:
I'm in the middle of "The Fall of the Roman Empire" by Peter Heather
Alexander by Robin Lane Fox
This:laugh4: . The Gotrek and Felix novels by William King plus several hundred other books.
I'm reading "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young" by Lt Gen. Harold Moore, and I am reading "Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor" by Stephen Dando-Collins. I recomend all of Stephen Dando-Collins' books on different legions. They area all pretty good.
just finished Asimov's "Foundation" series, now reading "The First Casualty" by Ben Elton, good stuff!
i read some of 'we were soldiers once' but it was too heavy for me to be honest. it seems to be a very good run-down of the battles the company took part in, but it never really gripped me enough to keep me coming back.
I liked First Casualty. I'm sure Ben Elton has a thing for WWI.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rhipsaspis
Currently reading, well a few things, including Livy again (book 4 currently) because I decided to make a note of who Livy says are Consul/Tribunes and see if any other sources match. Alright, in all likelihood Livy is working off flawed sources and everyone else is copying Livy, but you never know.
The main book I'm reading now, because it is Halloween, is Dracula.:vampire:
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These... :book2:
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His grandfathers where on opposite sides during WWI (British and German). He dedicated the book to them :book:Quote:
Originally Posted by Maeran
I read that a couple of years ago, and I've never been more bored by a book in all my life.Quote:
Originally Posted by mjmehrer07
For some reason I also watched the film, and that was equally as cack. I hate Vietnam films, you'd never know they actually lost that war!!
I blame Mel Gibson!!
Does anyone have a recommendation on some books about the Diadochi?
I'm currently reading Micheal Grant's "From Alexander to Cleopatra: The Hellenistic World" Great read so far.(I'm at the Ptolemies) But don't expect a strait through chronological telling of the era.Quote:
Originally Posted by horst nordfink
He instead starts with an intro chapter that pretty much sums up the time period rather frankly,(I skipped it since I knew the general story.)and then goes into more detail about the actual life-styles of the Hellenistic peoples with the rest of the book.
It may feel alittle outdated re-search wise for some of our more "enlightened" members but for the rest of us it's a good summary of the successors. Especially considering how hard it is to find books about that period elsewhere.:2thumbsup:
I'm also reading "A Peace to End All Peace" and wrapping up Bernard Cornwall's "The Last Kingdom".
Novel? A brilliant one is Funeral Games by Mary Renault, focusing on the time directly after the death of Alexander. Her books about Alexander are also near the top of my all-time favourites, her depiction of him and the period is the most vivid and memorable I've read. Great books.Quote:
Originally Posted by horst nordfink
I like we were soldiers thus far because it doesn't portray the American soldier as a stoned train wreck of a human being, like every other Vietnam war move or novel.
"Winds of War" by Wouk and I just finished Tolstoy's "War and Peace".
finishing Apache Nightmare: The Battle at Cibecue Creek. Charles Collins, University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. Its for work. Partly about the only recorded munity in US Army history.
Xenophon's Anabasis for me....1/4 of the way through...read the book maybe 3 total times in my life, greatness incarnate in my opinion :book:
even if Xenophon refers to himself in the 3rd person...
Just have finished:
"Shadowplay" by Tad Williams
Waited two years for it and one week after amazon finally sent it to me I have to wait another two or three years until he has finished the next book of the Triology...gah
currently i'm reading:
"The World without us" by Alan Weisman
"From Sarmarkhand to Sardis" by Susan Sherwin-White & Amelie Kuhrt
"Wers Glaubt wird Selig" by Dieter Nuhr
Those are standing on my bookshelve waiting to be read next:
"My America" by Bill Bryson
"The Sword of Karthago" by Gisbert Haefs
im currently sludging my way thru Plato's dialogs.....:study:
I've gone all HA atm. Shadows of the Desert (persian warfare, incl. Parthians) and some book about Warriors of the Steppe (a bit general really "The Alans had armoured horse, but for the steppe it was a dead end"). It dioes seem a fair introduction for a beginner, but to much detail is washed aside in favour of grand adjectives like devastating and invincible.
Next is The Mongol Way of War by Tim May (not the Australian Cricket administrator). Thank goodness for a well stocked local library.
I won't be reading The Fall of Constantinople, which describes on the dust jacket how Constatiniple in 1450 was "impregnable..having only fallen to seige twice...". Thats like being a virgin after only your second bonk.
On the tram to work I'm reading Kim and next is Arrian's Alexander (more NAMBLA).
He seems to know his stuff. I read The Classical Age and found it very impressive, even if the old queer is rather obsessed with the NAMBLA side of things. I'm certainly no expert but the few areas I had read a bit about for my degree he handled with aplomb, there's no false notes in his reduction of broad history to a single volume.Quote:
Originally Posted by agua
At All Costs, David Weber. Brain candy. Total brain candy. DELICIOUS brain candy.
As I must finish my studies, I can not afford to read something realy nice,.. I am at my EU economy exam (about 5 books - do I have 3 only) and Financial Markets .. also the 'Economics and Geopolitics of Europe and Euroasia':book:
The Greek World After Alexander, 323-30 B.C. by Graham Shipley. 568 pages total, I am 1/4 of the way through. Excellent read so far :book:
I've just finished reading this
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quite a good read, really
next, I'll read "The Utopia" by Sir Thomas More
and, once I get a hand on it, I'll read "La Horde du Contrevent" (yeah, it's in French, dunno if it's translated in English)
of course, I'll suspend any activities if a new "disc world" is released !
atlas shrugged
"Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years" by Goethe. 30 pages left but I can't take it anymore. Somebody shoot me please! It's about a group of german refugees/colonists preparing for a journey to America... it's a strange book.:wall:
For my class, Intro to Classical Literature im reading;
Euripides Tragedies (Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus)
Ovids art of love
The Odyssey
The Aeneid.
In my own time however i am reading through the Troy series by David Gemmel, the final book just came out, but i forgot about it (I always re read the preceding books when a new one is coming out), so i bought the last book but im only half through the first again lol :P
"Roman Generals" by Adrian Goldsworthy
Currently reading The Lord of The Rings 50th anniversary 1 volume edition. Always meant to read Tolkien's work and just never got around to it. Now i'm finally doing it and enjoying it i might add.
The first to tell the thruth in this threat ;-))))
Our Oriental Heriatage by Will Durant....it's somewhat outdated (for example, he believes 100,000 slaves constructed the pyramids for 20 years, a notion that has changed in recent years), but still a very good read IMO.
I've actually read the entire series in high school, but returned to it a decade later, as early history is most fascinating to me. :yes:
On an unrelated note, Dragons of Summer Flame (Dragonlance) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman is also a fantastic book.
Currently reading "Celtic overpowered!" thread. It has multiple authors and its focus is mainly on the impact of the Aedui vs. Arverni war on the Celtic society. The story loses it's direction a few times, and the grammar is simply appalling, but it does have it's moments. It's kind of a powder keg story, with the reader expecting it to burst at any moment, which makes it quite thrilling. Also there's a lynchian moment at the end where time keeps standing still.
The series continues and new chapters are written as we speak. Thankfully one of the authors mentioned that he's working on a summary of his chapters to lazy people like me. I'm waiting for the movie, but it's still a while away.
Has 'Making Money' been released in France?Quote:
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Analects of Confuicius (yah :book: ), Romance of the three Kingdoms (4 volume English translation) and some stuff for grad school.:jumping:
Orwell: Animal farm (need it for school)
This man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vojtech_Zamarovský wrote very good books about ancient history but I do not believe that they were translated to other language than Slovak and Czech.
Thundering Zeus - F. Holt (EXCELLENT)
History of the Ptolemaic Empire
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I love em both. They're as easy to read as an adventure novel.
Right now I'm reading Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Simon Baker, producer of the BBC show with the same name.
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The last book I read was Rubicon by Tom Holland.
Normally I struggle getting through any sort of non-fiction prose, but I haven't had as smooth a read as Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford since James Burke and Robert Ornstein's The Axemaker's Gift. Weatherford's take on Temujin is firmly in the Ahead-of-his-Time Ingenious Ruler-camp, so I imagine it won't appeal to every history buff.
In fiction I'm balancing between The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk and Nova Swing by M John Harrison, a sci-fi novel.
And of course, an armful of newspapers as always. As a journalism student I recommend the International Herald Tribune, mostly for having such a wonderful online edition. The Guardian UK comes at a close second.
:laugh4: Yeah,thats a great thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thaatu