Who's reading what??

[kodiakblair]

Picked up Terry Jones's Barbarians and Moffats The Wall for 60p
last week in library sale.

[Macbeth]

Its time to get another dose of the Late Republic of Rome - I am just over a 5th of the way through Ben Kane's "The Forgotten Legion" first book of a trilogy.

He is still setting the scene and introducing the main characters at this stage.

Cheers

[Macbeth]

Took a detour from Rome and finished up reading 'The Skull Beneath The Skin" a history of Africa after the cold war. No happy endings here (and this book was published back in 2001 so it cuts out before a lot of the incidents reach their climax)

I am thinking of buying AK47 Republic and giving that a go, nothing on the horizon there about a new edition and a split in the players ranks.

Still I am nearly at the end of the book (The UN have just gone into Somalia) and might drift back to the Forgotten Legion

Cheers

[Macbeth]

I finished 'Macbeth: A Novel' at the end of last week - it was a novelisation of the Shakespeare play rahter than a dark age reconstruction. A fun read nonetheless.

Now I am halfway through Ben Kane's third book in the Forgotten Legion trilogy "The Road To Rome" and am finding it a bit of a chore

Cheers

[MWright]

Rereading Cornwell's Warlord Saga,( between marking exam papers)

Michael

[Adrian Bryan]

Osprey's Ancient Armies of the Middle East by Terence Wise, and Attila and the Nomad Hords by David Nicolle.

Regards Adrian.

[broadsword]

The George Martin series (you know, that one, that they're all talking about).

Oh and "Basel III framework" stuff. Scintillating stuff after all that boring ASOIF...

[Macbeth]

Originally Posted by Macbeth

With the impending 700th anniversary of Bannockburn there is a plethora of William Wallace/Robert Bruce series starting out

Robert Low of the Oathsworn Series fame has started with the 'Kingdom Series' - I finished book 1 "Kingdom - The Lion Wakes" recently. Which kicks off just after John Balliol revolts against Edward. This is an excellent story and I can barely wait for the next installment 'The Lion at Bay'. This one paints Bruce and Edward I in a warts and all style trying to present them in all their complexity.

Robyn Young who produced the Templar Trilogy has another offering which begins with "Insurrection". This one starts with Robert Bruce as a boy and takes the reader through the whole convoluted process of the succession crisis in Scotland (and has a few flashbacks to the Welsh revolt and the Barons' War). However Young prefers to present heroes and villains - the deaths of Alexander II and the Maid of Norway are presented as murders. The Comyns have few redeeming features whilst the Bruce family are almost too good to be true. Edward Longshanks is presented as truly Machiavellian.

I am about 2/3 of the way through "Insurrection" and it is nonetheless a good story but pales by comparison with Robert Low

Apparently Jack Whyte (who wrote the Skystone Arthurian series) is about to present a Wallace story "The Forest Laird" will be the first book - however if Robert Low's blog is to be believed then he will present Wallace as Robin Hood (and I think the Templars might feature in the story as well) - Low is not particularly complimentary

And indeed the Jack Whyte novel was aquired recently and I am now reading it. It seems that Whyte is also writing a trilogy 'The Bravehearts Chronicles' which will deal with William Wallace, Robert Bruce and James Douglas. The first one 'Rebel' (alternative title 'The Forest Laird') is the Wallace story and has started out reasonably well.

I finished off 'The Road To Rome' last night and don't reccommend it much

Cheers

[Captain Rabbit]

Originally Posted by Macbeth

Took a detour from Rome and finished up reading 'The Skull Beneath The Skin" a history of Africa after the cold war. No happy endings here (and this book was published back in 2001 so it cuts out before a lot of the incidents reach their climax)

I am thinking of buying AK47 Republic and giving that a go, nothing on the horizon there about a new edition and a split in the players ranks.

Still I am nearly at the end of the book (The UN have just gone into Somalia) and might drift back to the Forgotten Legion

Cheers

Try AK 47 great game highly recomended, even optional rules that let you make your own flag and party name.

shouldn't you be painting rather than reading?

[MWright]

More exam papers!!!!