I hope you enjoy Saylor's books. I've been reading them since I was in secondary school and stumbled upon the first two in my school library, and I love them to bits (although I actually need to catch up on some of the newer books in the series).
One word of warning: his main character, while still recognisably Roman in most of his attitudes, does have a more modern mentality, I assume to make him more relatable to modern readers. And as the series progresses it becomes more and more obvious that Saylor is using it as a proxy to work through his fury at US domestic and foreign policy during the George W. Bush presidency (thinking back on it now, it feels almost quaint to be furious about things that Bush did — I can remember feeling so at the time, for the way it affected Australian politics and the state of the world, but it feels like the anger of a different person). The contemporary politics bleeding in doesn't bother me, but I wanted to warn you just in case.
I really hope you enjoy the series — isn't it great to have a new, massive series to get stuck into?
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I hope you enjoy Saylor's books. I've been reading them since I was in secondary school and stumbled upon the first two in my school library, and I love them to bits (although I actually need to catch up on some of the newer books in the series).
One word of warning: his main character, while still recognisably Roman in most of his attitudes, does have a more modern mentality, I assume to make him more relatable to modern readers. And as the series progresses it becomes more and more obvious that Saylor is using it as a proxy to work through his fury at US domestic and foreign policy during the George W. Bush presidency (thinking back on it now, it feels almost quaint to be furious about things that Bush did — I can remember feeling so at the time, for the way it affected Australian politics and the state of the world, but it feels like the anger of a different person). The contemporary politics bleeding in doesn't bother me, but I wanted to warn you just in case.
I really hope you enjoy the series — isn't it great to have a new, massive series to get stuck into?