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The First Man in Rome
The First Man in Rome | Colleen McCullough
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With extraordinary narrative power, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough sweeps the reader into a whirlpool of pageantry and passion, bringing to vivid life the most glorious epoch in human history. When the world cowered before the legions of Rome, two extraordinary men dreamed of personal glory: the military genius and wealthy rural "upstart" Marius, and Sulla, penniless and debauched but of aristocratic birth. Men of exceptional vision, courage, cunning, and ruthless ambition, separately they faced the insurmountable opposition of powerful, vindictive foes. Yet allied they could answer the treachery of rivals, lovers, enemy generals, and senatorial vipers with intricate and merciless machinations of their ownto achieve in the end a bloody and splendid foretold destiny . . . and win the most coveted honor the Republic could bestow.
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Not quite book related, but here‘s my daughter today at the Roman Forum, which is where parts of the first chapter of the book is taking place

TheBookHippie How very exciting !!! 2y
TheBookgeekFrau Fun!!! 2y
marleed Oh cool! 2y
Texreader @TheBookHippie @TheBookgeekFrau @marleed I am loving her photos!! I can‘t wait to see her photos when she goes to Pompeii next week! And I promise to post lots of photos when I get there. I‘m so excited. 2y
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When I chose to read this ebook I knew that somewhere I had the enormous chunkster. And thank heavens I do. The glossary in the ebook was so lengthy that it was practically useless. So this will serve as my reference guide because it‘s just too heavy to read and hopefully I‘ll have enough figured out before I need to go to Rome without it.

azulaco I adore this series. The first two are on my list of all-time favorite books. My husband and I read them to pieces. 2y
Texreader @azulaco Oh! That is so great to hear! 2y
azulaco Depending on which printing you have, there are some inaccuracies in the glossary. Also, I thought it was weird that in the listing of nicknames, my editions said that no one knew where the nickname Sulla came from. Uh, really? They make sulla honey in Italy. Look up a picture of the bright red sulla flower, red like Sulla‘s hair. NO ONE ever twigged to this? I doubt it. That has to be a weakness in her pre-Google era research. 2y
Texreader @azulaco I love all your comments! I may be fact checking with you! 👍🏻 I‘ll have to look for that red honey when I‘m in Italy in a few weeks (edited) 2y
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Today was daughter‘s 1st full day in Rome to start her studies there & she took this photo today of Circus Maximus

“Circus Maximus The old circus built by King Tarquinius Priscus before the Republic began. It filled the whole of the Vallis Murcia, between the Palatine and Aventine mounts. It held somewhere between 100,000 and 150,000 people, even in Republican times; during the Republic, only Roman citizens were admitted.”

Larkken It‘s so green! It‘s always fun to see classical ruins all green and lush when usually people are there in august and everything is baked out and brown 😆 hope your daughter enjoys the trip! 2y
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The first of what I suspect will be many maps. Ok so here we are at 30 BC! Fun!!

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I‘m almost certainly biting off more than I can chew with this #chunkster (at 1127 pages) but I‘m going to give it a try. This is my next ebook which will serve two purposes:
I‘ll still be reading it when I fly to Rome (how perfect, right?) in early June, so it fills my Italy obsession at the moment. And it works for #Australia #foodandlit in June because the author is Australian. @Catsandbooks @Amiable

Amiable I read this years ago —too many years of Latin classes in high school and college! I remember liking it, if that helps. 😀 2y
CatLass007 The Audible version is abridged. Abridging books is a sin against the natural order of things.😩 2y
Itchyfeetreader With the fear of adding to your chunkster problems if you are an Italy kick I recommend both the tagged book and it‘s second part called the splendour before the dark 2y
marleed I listened to this in my car commute to and from work years ago on audiotape! It was the book that got me hooked on audio format as an option. I kept a notepad in my car so I could jot down all the names ending in ‘ius‘! I must have renewed my loan 4-5 times because my commute was 20-30 minutes depending on traffic and there was no speeding up of a cassette tape! (edited) 2y
Catsandbooks Good luck with that chunkster! 2y
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rwmg
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Richly immersive account of Marius's first six consulships in the last decade of the 2nd century BC as Rome deals with the Jugurthine war and the looming threat of a German invasion.

marleed Oh boy it‘s been a long time. This was my first book when I discovered my library carried audio cassettes. I listened only in my car on my work commute. Good thing I had the option to renew. I kept a pen and notebook in my car so I could keep track of the characters- most names ending in its! 3y
rwmg @marleed 😂 I was reading it with my online reading group, and that was a comment everyone made, wishing the Romans had been a bit more imaginative with their naming practices. 3y
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Having no personal commitment to either of the new consuls, Gaius Julius Caesar and his sons simply tacked themselves onto the procession which started nearest to their own house, the procession of the senior consul, Marcus Minucius Rufus.

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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Stuck in Quarantine.. Since we can't leave the house for another week ill started this one I've been holding off because of the size. I love Historical Fiction, hope I won't be disappointed

rwmg Excellent book introducing an excellent series 4y
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3 of 20 #20Series20Days

I read this series while in undergrad. It's all politics and wars and family drama. I loved it.

Andrew65 Another series I keep meaning to read! 4y
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toofondofbooks
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What I was reading 6 years ago. If you are into Roman history I highly recommend McCullough's Masters of Rome series. It is excellent.

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Tove_Reads
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I feel intimidated by this book. Anyone want to read it with me? Pretty please 🙏🏼

arubabookwoman Do you like historical fiction? Did you like the Thorn Birds? If yes you will probably like this. I loved this when I read it years ago, and used to rush home from work to read it. I read the whole series. The Roman names do take some effort to get used to though. 6y
Tove_Reads @arubabookwoman Yes, I loved Thornbirds. I‘ve also read Tim and The Touch. 6y
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toofondofbooks
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Hubby gave me this folded book a few Christmases ago (the book is a copy of Jane Eyre) I ❤ it and it was fun to do also.

DrexEdit You have Colleen McCullough's Rome books on your shelf and are reading SPQR. You must have a mild obsession with Roman history like I do. 7y
toofondofbooks @DrexEdit very much so! 7y
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The only good news this week! My books from awesomebooks arrived. Will open after work whit a glass of red in my hand. I really needed this mail! 15 📚 💝💝💝

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MayJasper
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I read this book many years ago. I loved it. That's the main thing I remember.
#acityinthetitle #uncannyoctober @RealLifeReading

RealLifeReading Well that's always a good thing to remember! 7y
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Even though she wrote the Thorn Birds I had no idea Colleen McCullough was one of the #australianauthors. Learned something new again! #feistyfeb

ApoptyGina69 I've owned this for years and haven't read it yet. 8y
RealLifeReading 🙌🙌 8y
Texreader @RealLifeReading Thank you for your monthly challenges! I so enjoy them (most of the time). Sometimes I'm at a bit of a loss. But I've enjoyed learning new things. 8y
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Jane
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I read a review of this that mentioned the author's "dated prose style". I figured that meant "no sentence fragments" and immediately ordered a used copy.

I'm enjoying it quite a bit (I was right about the sentence fragments), but a Kindle version would be nice. It's heavy!

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