[lbo-talk] What are you reading now?

Robert Wrubel bobwrubel at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 13 17:16:23 PDT 2007


what is it about I Claudius? It just seems like crap to me. Robert Graves book on Travelling in Greece is superb, as is every shorter work I can remember reading, but turn him loose on history and you wind up with lechery. Anthony Burgess' contrapuntal narration of the story of the early apostles and decadent contemporary Romans is much better, as fiction and history. Gibbon is pretty good, too. BobW --- Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:


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> >>> andie nachgeborene
> Robert Graves', I, Claudius
> A book on the Borgias by some 60's Italian historian
> Machiavelli's Prince and the Discoursi on Livy
> (random
> selections as I read along with the Borgias)
> Plan to start a book on the Medici next
> Gary Wills' Venice: the Lion City
> Just finished: Ross King, Brunelleschi's Dome and
> Michelangelo and The Pope's Ceiling (along with the
> very good guide illustrated to Mike & Raphael you
> get
> in the Vatican, for the pix)Plan to start Tony
> Grafton's book on Alberti: Master Builder of the
> Renaissance, just bought this to follow up on the
> Brunelleschi
> May take Graves' Claudius the God as my next train
> reading
> Plan to restart Pynchon's Against the Day, read
> aloud
> with la Espouza
> Various books and papers on class actions for a
> paper
> I'm writing
> Various texts on federal civil procedure for a
> course
> I'm teaching
> Recently finished the new Harry Potter (eh, a real
> disappointment)
> Manera's Borgia series, Blood for the Pope and
> Incest
> and Power (classy or any way well drawn
> semi-historical pornographic comix)
> Some recent Serpieri Druuna books (more classy or
> any
> way well drawn sci fi pornographic comix)
> At my kids' instigation I read through (again Thomas
> Harris Hannibal Lecter books, except for Hannibal
> Rising) ("I'll eat you up, I love you so.")
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> ^^^^^^^^
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> CB: Sounds like you are a voracious reader reading
> about the
> voracious.
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