I find little to object to in Colleen McCullough's police procedural mystery series set in the 1960's Cold War university town of Holloman, CT. CM is an aficionado of the genre, and it shows. Holloman is a pseudonym for New Haven, and Chubbs University is Yale, the school where McCullough taug...
2do libro de esta autora que me tiene cautivado por esta nueva manera de honrar en el estilo de novela negra y de detectives. Una autora famosa por sus libros de época romántica del estilo Jane Austen, según tengo entendido, que da un giro de 360 con este nuevo detective Delmonico del Depto de Po...
I've wanted to read this book for years, but I'm glad I waited till I was at a stage in my life when I might appreciate it the most (though it wasn't deliberate). I didn't know anything about the story before I started except that it's a classic Australian novel, epic in scope, and was made into ...
In Let the Dice FlyMcCullough compellingly manages Julius Caesar's transformation from master politician and Pontifex Maximus into autocratic general. She begins the story five years after the last book in her Masters of Rome series, Caesar's Women, not long into his second term as governor of fo...
Ambitious attempt to explain the ways of the Romans to modern readers. Caesar belongs to one of the oldest patrician families in Rome, the Julians, who are directly descended from the goddess Venus, and this curtails a certain dignitas that he must live up to as he aspires to become the greatest ...
Hacía mucho tiempo que este libro estaba en mi estantería, esperando ser leído, pero con pocas probabilidades de conseguirlo, o eso pensaba yo. Sin embargo, me levanté un día y decidí empezarlo. Sabía que era novela policíaca, pero hacía años que no leía nada o casi nada del género, no obstante, ...
This has been the shelf for years and I finally got around to reading it. The story takes place in the late 1700s after the American Revolution, in Bristol, England, on a slaver/convict transport vessel, and eventually in Norfolk Island by way of Botany Bay, Australia. Colleen McCullough does ama...
I had read the final book in the series - "Antony and Cleopatra" -earlier, so this turned out to be the last book I'd have to read in the 'Masters of Rome'. That turned out be a good thing because while I liked the entire series, this would be among my top two. An excellent choice of title - borr...
If I could have sex with this book, I would.Nothing I write can really do justice to why I love this book so much. I've just finished it for at least the 4th time (most likely the 5th), and the series will probably serve as my comfort read whenever I'm in a book slump. They're great and awesome a...
This is the kind of historical fiction that I love to read. I've always had a passing interest in mythology, but sometimes it can be so dry! "So & So, son of Such & Such, did A, B, C, & D, had son Whatchamacallit with Whatshername who was the daughter of Whosthatguyagain?..." That's one of the re...
I used to think this book was greater than The First Man in Rome, but now that I've re-read it again, I have to say that it's not exactly as good as I thought it was. First Man rose in my estimation on a re-read, this was slightly lowered, so now I think they're pretty much even.The elements that...
Wow... There is so much that I want to say about this book, and I don't know if I will really be able to do it all justice. I think I'm just going to go for my tried and true method and just ask you to tag along with my ramblings... Hopefully it will make sense at the end. :)On the surface, "Tim"...
cover:Who was John Smith? What was the mystery surrounding his past? Why did he elect to live alone in the bush and listen to the silence? These were the questions the outraged members of the Hurlingford clan asked when John Smith came to town and stole the valley out from under their self-import...
The third book in Colleen McCullough's "Masters of Rome" series, after "The First Man in Rome" and "The Grass Crown", begins just a few years after the latter. Sulla gets back to Rome, the beauty of his early days giving way to a toothless self with a hideous wig and an addiction to wine, and tru...
Not many would remember, but in the 70s and 80s, we were being told there was to be a new Ice Age rather than global warming. This novel was published in 1985, and is set in the future – around 2024, by memory, when the climate has become much colder, areas have become uninhabitable, energy use...
Did the weak demand, or did the strong offer themselves unsolicited? Did strength beget weakness, or reinforce it, or negate it? What was strength, what weakness, for that matter?World War II has been over for a matter of months and Ward X of Base Fifteen has gradually emptied until only five pat...