Simon Scarrow Books?

[andrewmc]

Anyone ever read any of his books if not you should give them a go they very good. I know they are not around this period of the roman empire but still may interest people.

[PSEUDO ROMANUS]

Thanks for the recommendation!

[Gäiten]

The first serie (about the conquest of Celtic Britannia) is very good and can be recommended anybody to read, however, his latest novel ("Centurion") is, IMHO, bad.

[andrewmc]

The first serie (about the conquest of Celtic Britannia) is very good and can be recommended anybody to read, however, his latest novel ("Centurion") is, IMHO, bad.

That is the series i am reading the invasion of britain, ive got centurion but not read it yet

[Aldgarkalaughskel]

May I recommend this collection of novels I made:
Best novels on Greco-Roman history

[PSEUDO ROMANUS]

May I recommend this collection of novels I made:
Best novels on Greco-Roman history

Gee! What a collection! Thank you for sharing it. I have a lot of books to buy now .

[Pliniux]

I warmly suggest you to read the novels by Valerio Massimo Manfredi; he's very famous here in Italy!!!!

[dougie j]

Hey guys i cannot recommend these books highly enough, i thought Bernard Cornwall was the king of the military novel until i started reading the first of the eagle series,i have now read them 3 or 4 times.
Scarrow really gives you an amazing feeling of how things may have felt during the harsh reality's of ancient life and war.
P.S. Make sure you read them in order guys

[PSEUDO ROMANUS]

I warmly suggest you to read the novels by Valerio Massimo Manfredi; he's very famous here in Italy!!!!

Are his works translated into other languages (English or Spanish)?

[Pliniux]

Of course:

The Last Legion - Valerio Massimo Manfredi
ISBN: 0330447297

Empire of dragons - Valerio Massimo Manfredi
ISBN: 1-4050-5200-7

There are also spanish books! Look here: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerio_Massimo_Manfredi

[Xavier Dragnesi]

I've read up to the fourth book of Scarrow's series about Macro and Cato, and still going. It's a great series!

Valerio Massimo Manfredi is also awesome. His Alexander series is excellent.

[Samuel Adams]

Love Scarrow's work. There's a little Brit slang in there that makes it almost read like most movies on the empire such as "Ah he's just takin the piss with you mate" i.e. Romans=British accents.

However, they are by far my favorite fictional books on the period.

[dougie j]

Love Scarrow's work. There's a little Brit slang in there that makes it almost read like most movies on the empire such as "Ah he's just takin the piss with you mate" i.e. Romans=British accents.

However, they are by far my favorite fictional books on the period.

Good point that mate
Being a Brit i just rolled along with it soaking it up

[Samuel Adams]

Good point that mate
Being a Brit i just rolled along with it soaking it up

Well I for one like the stereotype... Some found it a turn off over at RAT, but they also didn't like "Gates of Fire," which I also found to be a good book on Thermopolye. I think Steven Pressfield was the author, but I can't recall. Anyhow, I for one think that, considering we don't know the slang of the common legionary, it's good to have that in there for association.

[andrewmc]

Good point that mate
Being a Brit i just rolled along with it soaking it up

i agree, i love the bits of brit humour

[PSEUDO ROMANUS]

Being heavily influenced by TV documentaries, series, movies, and books as I am, a Roman whose accent or syntax is not British is not a real Roman .

[Pliniux]

Being heavily influenced by TV documentaries, series, movies, and books as I am, a Roman whose accent or syntax is not British is not a real Roman .

Dear friend, let me dissent!!!! I think that a real Roman should have an Italian/Spanish accent like us!

A Roman speaking with British accent seems to me (Italian) a really strange matter!