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who was it at this forum that posted about Kindle for the PC?????

 

I downloaded it I think last weekend.

 

I now have 5 books to read!!!! I am now reading Antonina by Wilkie Collins and No Roads Lead to Rome By Gompertz, one of our very own.

 

 

It was so nice to find all 4 books in the She series of H Rider Haggard. I have never over the many years been able to find book 3 and 4.

 

 

Thank you:)

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who was it at this forum that posted about Kindle for the PC?????

 

Thank you:)

 

...that would be me ;)

 

cheers

viggen

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who was it at this forum that posted about Kindle for the PC?????

 

Thank you:)

 

...that would be me ;)

 

cheers

viggen

 

and it is now 6 books... (or maybe 9, does the 4 book series of She count as one book or four?)

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I just finished - No Roads Lead to Rome.. via Kindle for the PC>

 

I swear it read like a combination of the following movies: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Mouse (from Ladyhawk) conversational way and the Keystone Cops. It was a nice break from reading Antonina by Wilkie Collins, which is a such a serious book and written mid 1800's. (and it was a free Kindle for PC book)..

 

So far I much prefer and actual book with pages you can turn.

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I read Julius Caesar by Nic Fields. it's a very short analysis of Caesar the general rather than Caesar the man/politician (although it does cover that briefly too). Really nice pics by Peter Dennis too.

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I got about a third of the way through 'Caesar: The Life of a Colossus' by Adrian Goldsworthy (see this link).

 

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To be honest, it's quite a dry work, heavy on fact, but light on readability, and I found that i wasn't really enjoying it. I decided to take a break and come back to it later, and so in the meantime I started on Richard Herring's 'How Not To Grow Up'.

 

The irony wasn't lost on me.

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I'm currently skipping between Kyle's Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World, and Wickham's Inheritance of Rome (along with all of my school reading)

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Well as my review probably gives away I recently finished Andrew Riches Arrows of Fury: Empire Volume Two which, like the first volume, I enjoyed. It was a real pleasure to see that some of the initially doubtful historical aspects have been resolved.

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I just got the last book in Fourth Realm Trilogy by John Twelve Hawks.

 

I have reread The Traveler and am now rereading The Dark Road. It has been a few years since I read these books and they still are very thought provoking.

 

The last book in the series is The Golden City... ----- Please please make it have at least some rays of light.

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In the little spare time I have, I have been trying to read Egil's saga, which is an Icelandic Saga from the Viking Age. it is .. interesting. A nice prose epic centering around good ol' Heathen virtues of wealth, fame and family. I may read the other Icelandic saga but at the rate I am going it is going to take months.

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The Great Fire of Rome by Dando-Collins. Hopefully, the review will follow.

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