06-09-2012, 06:31 AM
Quote:Gaius Julius Caesar post=314105 Wrote:Guess it's time to read some of Christians books..
However, I will always have a fond spot for Gates of Fire, as it got me back on track.
Definitely, I remember bugging Dithyrambus about them a while ago too until he gave in and read them. As a Classicist, I won't say they're perfect, but they're probably the best (only) novels on the ancient world which actually have a sense of...well evocative of the source culture. Though I disliked the third tyrant novel and the others....well, aren't as good.
Pressfield etc are all right but they often seem "plastic".
Yes, it seemed that the culture of the times was well presented and I just felt transported by Christian's books, though I am a little mad at him for killing my favorite character in book three ( :wink: ) Haven't read the fourth in the series yet (King of the Bosporus).
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
