New Books
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez
The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt
Just picked these up from two authors I very much like, though sadly, Everitt’s Hadrian also sits in my antilibrary waiting to be read. My normally manic reading pace took a major hit this past year due to my being ridiculously overscheduled and admittedly, underdisciplined, but I am hoping to cure that this fall. Despite an academic foundation in US-Soviet diplomatic history and economic history, I find myself frequently gravitating to classical antiquity these days. Everitt’s biography Cicero was a masterpiece that overshadowed his sequel, Augustus. What I would like to see Anthony Everitt do, were I able to give him advice, is to write a biography of the indomitiable Cato the Younger, whom Everitt blamed most of all for the death of the Roman Republic.
I rarely have time for fiction anymore, but Daniel Suarez is on my very short list of authors next to Stephen Pressfield and William Gibson. Shlok did a nice review of Kill Decision here at ZP and at his own blog. As qa result I am kicking Kill Decision to the top of my book pile.
August 27th, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Cicero has been in my to-read pile for about two years now. Based on your thoughts, I’m kicking it to the top…