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Imperium - Robert Harris

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  • 07-06-2008 10:29pm
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    Green Hornet
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    Just finished a very good book recently called "Imperium" by Robert Harris. The books main character is Cicero and concerns his early career until the point at which he becomes a consul of Rome.

    Just wondering what other peoples thoughts on the book were?


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    copacetic
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    Green Hornet wrote: »
    Just finished a very good book recently called "Imperium" by Robert Harris. The books main character is Cicero and concerns his early career until the point at which he becomes a consul of Rome.

    Just wondering what other peoples thoughts on the book were?

    I wasn't that impresssed with it, it had interesting bits but I felt it jumped too far between past and future without filling in the gaps.


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    Green Hornet
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    copacetic wrote: »
    I wasn't that impresssed with it, it had interesting bits but I felt it jumped too far between past and future without filling in the gaps.
    I think there may be more books concerning the rest of Cicero's career so I assume they will fill in the gaps.


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    Sconsey
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    Read it a while back, I really enjoyed it....probably because I wasn't expecting much from it.


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    Lizzykins
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    I liked it a lot and enjoyed Pompeii even more. Robert Harris' best book is Fatherland I think. Well worth the read.


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    Chumpski
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    Agree, Fatherland is amazing. Roibert Harris is a brilliant writer. I loved archangel as well and pompeii. Enigma was quite good too. Imperium is actually my least favourite of his books.


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    Dades
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    Lizzykins wrote: »
    I liked it a lot and enjoyed Pompeii even more. Robert Harris' best book is Fatherland I think. Well worth the read.
    + 1.

    The two Roman books were an interesting insight into the times. But Fatherland was the business.


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    Lizzykins
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    What I liked so much about it was that it was not by any means sensationalist in it's treatment of an alternative outcome to the war. It was so low key and that made it all the more disturbing. I wouldn't mind reading it again and I rarely go back to novels a second time.


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    Dades
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    Lizzykins wrote: »
    What I liked so much about it was that it was not by any means sensationalist in it's treatment of an alternative outcome to the war.
    Similar to "The Man in the High Castle", but with a decent plot!


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    oxygen_old
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    Pompeii was a great book, loved it. Dealt with Roman culture more than politics. Rome seemed kinda depressing to live in rather than how it comes across on tilivision. (Im thinking HBO's Rome. Great tv show, slightly unrealistic)


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    buck65
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    Great book
    Read it in Italy so double the fun...


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