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Howard’s 2024 Year in Books
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Howard M. Wiseman
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Alastair's review
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The Last of the Romans (The Last of the Romans #1):
"Imagine a Simon Scarrow or Bernard Cornwell novel...now take away any character development or sensible plot. Add in minor characters who only seem to exist to die bravely defending the brooding (and fairly unlikable) hero, a main character who singl"
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Jane's review
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The Last of the Romans (The Last of the Romans, #1):
"Too much action for me, never a letup; I prefer something a little slower-moving. Ambrosius Aurelius journeys across Gaul overcoming many obstacles and he and his men finally commandeer a ship to sail to Britannia. Ambrosius himself, while a stalwart"
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"I wanted to like this book as I love all things Arthurian, but this didn't do it for me. The characters were two-dimensional, the conflict very much a goodies (Britons) versus baddies (Saxons) with no nuance or subtlety. Nor did I find the political/"
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Carl (Hiatus. IBB in Jan)'s review
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Excalibur (The Arthurian Chronicles #1):
"I enjoyed Excalibur by Peter James. While it bears some resemblance to Bernard Cornwell's writing style, it leans too heavily on action and gore. I appreciated the character development, particularly Arthur's evolution in his early days before becomi"
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A stand-out Arthurian hard-core-historical novel. Two generations after the Roman Empire abandoned Britain (c.410), a certain Riothamus, “King of the Britons”, came to the middle of Gaul (France) with a large army to fight for the Empire against the V ...more |
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| Greg Egan is my favourite SciFi novelist and this is a solid addition to his oeuvre. 4 stars rather than 5 only because it’s not up there with his greatest novels, and what’s the point of a rating system that can’t distinguish very good from great. T ...more | |
“We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.”
― 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'
― 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'
“But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it!—by the same process and electrical assimilation, as I told you, through which I ween the souls of connoisseurs themselves, by long friction and incumbition, have the happiness, at length, to get all be-virtu’d—be-pictured,—be-butterflied, and be-fiddled.”
― Tristram Shandy (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #26]
― Tristram Shandy (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #26]
