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Conn Iggulden
You can hardly fail to be an author with a name like that really can you? I mention him because his latest book has just come out, and as soon as I get some money for the er, ’sponsored posts’, I’ll be off to Amazon to get it.
Conn’s last series was an epic 4 novel fiction based on the life of Julius Caesar. He’s a brilliant storyteller, and although the page count must have weighed in at over 2000 for the series, I read it in about a week, and could not put it down. It was one of those stories where the pages turn in a blur, and it’s almost like watching a film, although much better! If you enjoyed the ‘Rome’ TV series which showed last year, you’ll love this.
His next series is about Genghis Khan, and is another fictionalised, yet based on the known facts, story. Should be excellent. A short interview with Conn can be found on the BBC.
Read anything good lately?
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January 26th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
I’ve been reading about him lately…can I borrow it?
January 26th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Definitely
January 26th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Yay!
But that red is still nasty through any monitor…
January 27th, 2007 at 12:12 am
Are you my dad? lol! he loves all this stuff, so i will pass this onto him.
I have just re read, No 1 ladies detective agency by Alexander McCall Smith, which is an excellent read, very funny and its set in Botswana.
Before that i re read my Sherlock Holmes Collection, I read every night before i go to sleep, so i get through a lot of books!
January 27th, 2007 at 12:15 am
I’m not that old cheeky!
January 27th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Yay to Sherlock Holmes as well! Have you every watched the TV version with Jeremy Brett, Claire?
January 27th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Off to the bookstore with me - I read an excerpt from the first book, and now there’s an Emporer series with my name on it.
Thanks for the recommendation!
January 27th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Oh yes indeed, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are my favourite though!
January 27th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Heretic!
January 27th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
That’s alright Melissa, you won’t regret it.
You 2 carry on talking amongst yourselves….