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vil elske Registrer deg på LibraryThing for å se om du vil like denne boka. Une plongée intéressante dans une période mouvementée de l'histoire de Rome, avec à l'honneur le personnage de Caius Marius et ses victoires militaires. C'est assez fouillé et semble bien documenté, les personnages ont pour la plupart une consistance et un caractère intéressant même si on se perd parfois dans le nombre et la confusion des noms romains à rallonge! Un roman agréable à lire mais un peu trop long, les conflits sociaux de la fin de l'épisode sont un peu confus et pas aussi captivants que le début. (  ) jackie67 | Mar 8, 2009 |  This is historical fiction, set in Ancient Rome, focusing on Gaius Marius "The First Man in Rome" during the period of the Roman Republic (before Julius Caesar and Augustus). McCullough weaves a very complex and detailed Rome with historically accurate terminology and cultural references that require the attention of the reader. Highly recommended for those with an affinity for the period. (  ) santhony | Jan 26, 2009 | I approached this a bit reluctantly after reading a recommendation in Bob Carr;s excellent My Reading Life. We clearly share literary tastes, so I thought I'd give it a go, knowing literally nothing about the history of Rome at all. And was very pleasantly surprised. It's definitely detailed, and would be a ripping yarn if it were made up, so is doubly so because it's (apparently) entirely historically accurate. I've started volume two already, and feel as if the series is getting into it's stride a bit with the introduction of the precocious Julius Caesar, so I'm going to hang in there, enjoy the ride, and learn a bit of history in the process. (  ) grahamtridley | Aug 27, 2008 | A fine imagination at work here, but two things stop it being a great historical novel: the writing is ponderous and slow, dialogue is unrealistic, and the repetitions made my teeth curl. Secondly, McCullough knows her subject but does not wear her learning lightly. It's as if she had a list of 'interesting things I know about Rome' and squeezed them all in, regardless of the brakes this put on the narrative. Overall I enjoyed it, but only just! (  )1  Karen_Wells | Aug 25, 2008 | I love history, particularly ancient history.The First Man in Rome is the first book in a fictional series that chronicles the devolution of Rome from republic to empire. It begins with Gaius Marius and the start of his relationship with the Caesar family. While I found some of the military campaigning to be a bit of a drag (for others there might not be enough of it), I found it very readable and full of well researched details of period life to make me happy. I wish that the series had begun with Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus (and maybe she'll go back and do that someday). It was a time filled with political turmoil all of which was significant in making Rome what it became. (  ) neferset | May 29, 2008 |  ingen anmeldelser | legg inn en anmeldelse
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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 own -- to achieve in the end a bloody and splendid foretold destiny ... and win the most coveted honor the Republic could bestow.
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