That Rome series is the only thing by her that I've read.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 29/01/2015 09:31:36 PM
View original postis so much more spectacular. I know I know. The Thorn Birds (which I love) reached more people through the miniseries.
I think I have a second hand copy of the Thorn Birds somewhere, but never got around to reading it...
View original postFor anyone interested in the Fall of the Roman Republic period or for anyone who enjoys great historical fiction, it is a true pleasure to read the Rome series.
Agreed. For me it pretty much defines my view of that whole period, especially the earlier part which is a bit less often depicted in popular culture - I'm still inclined to view Sulla and Marius the way she depicted them. Caesar, Antony, Augustus - there I guess it's more a mixture of sources.
It's rather didactic that way - focusing almost exclusively on the big historical characters and going out of its way to cover almost everything of historical importance happening over the period, you could say it's more a fictionalized, glamourized retelling of history (the old kind of history, with heroes and villains determining the course of history rather than socio-economic developments) than historical fiction in the normal sense. But that's not a bad thing.
Colleen McCullough has passed away.
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It's a pity that The Thorn Birds gets so much attention when The First Man in Rome series
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That Rome series is the only thing by her that I've read.
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I've read Morgan's Run, it was rather heavy reading for a ten-year old 
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