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About 20% in, jolly good reading so far.
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May 15, 2017 12:02
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Ha, about a third of the way in now. Pretty sure I'm going to go straight on to the sequel and then track down the BBC series, this poo poo is great. The Livia character was also inspiration for Tony's mother in The Sopranos, right?
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May 16, 2017 08:49
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Finished and went straight on to the sequel, about a quarter of the way through that now... Herod Agrippa is a hilarious motherfucker.
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May 30, 2017 17:02
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rngd in the womb posted:Just finished this book. The Caligula arc is legitimately absurd. Did anyone else find this book unexpectedly funny at times? I wouldn't say it was unexpectedly funny, as I was pretty familiar with the absurdity and tragi-comedy of early imperial Rome already, but the Claudius narrator/character is indeed a hoot.
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May 31, 2017 12:01
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Also he did an impressive job differentiating between a shitload of characters who mostly had variations of the same name and were mostly related to each other in a big old tangled up ball of gently caress.
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Jun 3, 2017 22:20
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rngd in the womb posted:Oh gently caress! John Hurt as Caligula? SOLD. I just started on this, having on purpose not read much about the adaptation, and it drat well has BRIAN BLESSED [1] as Augustus, too. [1] Can't really use lower-case letters to write that name.
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Sad King Billy posted:I'm reading The First Man In Rome at the moment by Colleen McCulloch, it follows Marius and Sulla in the old Roman Republic. Pretty good so far, the characters are very well drawn. Read that years ago, it is indeed v. good. More decadence and intrigue and backstabbing and desperate battles than you can eat.
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