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Books 56-58
Jul. 3rd, 2009 05:57 am56) Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Reread): Elizabeth really wanted to keep playing in the library last Saturday, so I grabbed this off of the shelf in the children's section. Just as good as I remember - highly readable and as strong a piece of Juvenile SF as one could ever hope for. Rereading it just makes me more pissed about the movie version.
57) Three Days to Never (Reread): More Tim Powers in my "it's not my birthday yet so I don't have new books" doldrums. Not as good as Declare, but still very good.
58) The Histories: Using my drive time to listen to Tacitus' history of Rome's year of four emperors. I'm sure I missed some things by the nature of audio books and the sheer amount of ground covered, but it was still fascinating. While the actual history was interesting. getting Tacitus' take on the nature of the Roman empire, bias as he was by his own position in it, will no doubt be an invaluable gaming reference. His brief history of the Jewish people - to get you up to speed before discussing the pacification of Jerusalem - relied on information gathered by the worlds longest game of "telephone", which throws somne doubt on the rest of his research.
57) Three Days to Never (Reread): More Tim Powers in my "it's not my birthday yet so I don't have new books" doldrums. Not as good as Declare, but still very good.
58) The Histories: Using my drive time to listen to Tacitus' history of Rome's year of four emperors. I'm sure I missed some things by the nature of audio books and the sheer amount of ground covered, but it was still fascinating. While the actual history was interesting. getting Tacitus' take on the nature of the Roman empire, bias as he was by his own position in it, will no doubt be an invaluable gaming reference. His brief history of the Jewish people - to get you up to speed before discussing the pacification of Jerusalem - relied on information gathered by the worlds longest game of "telephone", which throws somne doubt on the rest of his research.
