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Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:30:04 GMT No. 25641897 [Kohl] [Report thread]
Is this a good book about Roman history? I bought it at a train station bookshop to read on a trip.
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Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:35:46 GMT No. 25641922 >>25641930 >>25642590 >>25644439
>woman as the author Should've thought about not purchasing that instead
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:37:16 GMT No. 25641930 >>25641932
>>25641922 There wasn't a big selection
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:37:24 GMT No. 25641931
>Is this a good book about Roman history? No, it is written by Mary Beard.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:37:29 GMT No. 25641932 >>25641935
>>25641930 Also if I recall she is a pretty bad author and is also, quite 'wokist', I think there some exceptions as far as women go and books but very, very few of them should be read to start with unless it's a niche topic
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:37:52 GMT No. 25641935 >>25641953 >>25641976 >>25641986 >>25642600
>>25641932 :sad-Heinrich:
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:41:23 GMT No. 25641953
>>25641935 I have volumes on the history of Washington DC, for example, it's not really something that people write about so kind of a niche topic but it's by a woman. They atleast have a better reputation than Mary Beard.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:43:05 GMT No. 25641959 >>25642605
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It's a well-known fact that women can't write good books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie As Hercule Poirot would agree... [alerta de satire]
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:44:49 GMT No. 25641964
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I like Rubicon by Tom Holland. However I do not read for historical accuracy.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:48:12 GMT No. 25641976
>>25641935 If you want a great classic on Rome, get the abridged version of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. This will introduce you to Rome very well I think and it's quite a chuddy booke.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:50:59 GMT No. 25641986
>>25641935 Or, if you just want to know about the facts in a brief overview you can also get a Very Short Introduction on the Roman Empire by Oxford University Press.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:51:42 GMT No. 25641988 >>25642001
Or, you can just read an article on the Internet or Bernd's ramblings.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:52:58 GMT No. 25641994 SÄGE!
Mary Beard though? Not the greatest choice. God I hate women.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:57:24 GMT No. 25642001
>>25641988 Bernd doesn't post about rome anymore, I assume rome is too lowbrow for nukc
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:58:09 GMT No. 25642003
>wooman
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 05:04:45 GMT No. 25642032
https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/2007/07/index.html Here is a podcast Here is a book he wrote https://www.amazon.com/History-Rome-Republic-1/dp/0692681663
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:12:59 GMT No. 25642586
Looks like a shitty opinionated work. Just read dry academic stuff instead.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:14:23 GMT No. 25642590 SÄGE!
>>25641922
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:15:59 GMT No. 25642600
>>25641935 It's hard finding good books nowadays, sorry. Everything is communist now.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:16:41 GMT No. 25642605 >>25644366
>>25641959 Did you just compare pulp fiction detective novels to a history book, miss?
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:08:40 GMT No. 25644100
It's alright for the general social history of Rome like the Marian reforms, Gracchi reforms, Socii wars, block voting. It lacks the interesting topics like wars and conquest and lacks the detailed explanations of its political machinations.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:48:07 GMT No. 25644366
>>25642605 Nein, Fräulein; I gave one example of a lady who wrote a large number of successful books set in her own universe which is similar to, but not quite like, England. I could also have quoted Mary Renault.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:49:07 GMT No. 25644377 >>25644404
>Mary Nope. It's clearly a shit book.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:53:39 GMT No. 25644404 >>25644435 >>25644454
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>>25644377 Yes. Nobody called Mary could possibly ever write a good book. Yanks: sheesh...
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:59:46 GMT No. 25644435 >>25644708
>>25644404 It's not a good book though. The only reason people talk about it is Hollywood. And even then Hollywood never made a single movie close to the source material. All Frankenstein movies are the product of screenwriters' writing rather than the source. All women books are fanfic-tier.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:00:10 GMT No. 25644439 SÄGE!
>>25641922
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:02:17 GMT No. 25644454
>>25644404 Also, you point at silly fiction books, so naive and incoherent that it can't be called sci-fi even. A book on history you have to have a robust, cold, logical, and sound mind. You have to write more or less objectively even if the conclusions from the facts you talk about go against your beliefs. A woman can never do that.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:42:42 GMT No. 25644705 >>25644842
Most like pop literature, maybe good for some light reading but I wouldn't expect much
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:43:20 GMT No. 25644708
>>25644435 That's your opinion. Mine is that Hollywood trashed it, as it trashes everything it touches. Which is why Hollywood is constantly stealing other peoples' stories to trash them as well.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:44:35 GMT No. 25644714
Also SPQR SPCR SPCNR PCNR POCCNER Russia is third rome
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:02:20 GMT No. 25644836
I really enjoyed it. It actually helped me understand why Rome was successful. Bernds are going to say it's evil because the author is le female but I didn't find anything biased in it. She was actually really skeptical of most previous historians which was good.
Bernd Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:03:39 GMT No. 25644842
>>25644705 t. didn't read the book
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