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Am I gross for liking Glokta?

The Rats in the Walls has to be one of the creepiest things I've ever read.

Sharpe is chased through the wetlands by a bunch of richboy Danish nobles and smashes one of their jaws with a rock. One of the most socio-politically active men I've read about.

Richard Sharpe: Social Worker

I love these reissued covers, but my book OCD is shrieking wildly at the fact that the rest of the books in the series I own aren't in this edition.

Why is Pressfield's Alexander so weird about sex?

Batman's enemies WERE the creepiest.

Junior is just gross.

My first encounter with a fictional Alexander. I also own Mary Renault's Fire From Heaven but I read and really liked Gates of Fire so I'll start with this one.

I need something a bit lighter than the tomes I've been reading. Saw this and it seemed like a good choice.

I don't want this book to end. I'M WORRIED ABOUT THESE PEOPLE!

"Should we split up?" Why do these people even consider this? Come to think of it, Cabin in the Woods had a funny take on what would motivate a group of people in scary situations to split up.

Clavell is really, really good at writing what must go on in a leader like Toranaga's head. As ruthless as he can be, I just have to admire his skill at strategy and manipulation. Wish I could have seen him in action in the invasion of Korea.

Yeah, this book is utterly creepy. 80 pages into the story and I feel the need for a psychic enema.

Well, every book should certainly have a gripping beginning and that was a hell of a weird one.

I love Mariko. "Do you call all Japanese ladies and samurai Jappos and monkeys?" Fuck that guy.

The levity of the dance scene was nice after the intensity of Blackthorne's introduction to Japan.

We get it, Uncle Bernie. You like skinny women. I think I'd die of shock if any Cornwellian love interest wasn't an emaciated black-haired woman.

God, how many dumbass consuls did Rome actually produce? I'm gonna make a list one day.

Not fifty pages in and a samurai cuts off a Jesuit's head. This feels familiar!

Caesar is born: "He was long and consequently weighed somewhat more than he looked to weigh; he was very strong; he was solemn and quiet, not prone to wailing; his hair was so fair it was practically invisible, though on close examination he actually had quite a lot of it; and his eyes from birth were a pale greenish-blue, ringed around with a band of blue so dark it was almost black."

"Gaius Marius laughed himself sore in the sides, then went out to deal with the Germans."

I really wish that politicians talked like Scaurus today. Open hostility, shouting, name-calling...the man is a charmed.

Caepio's pride and stupidity are unbelievable. Over a hundred thousand Roman corpses litter the field because one guy didn't want to share a camp with a Pleb general. You couldn't make this stuff up. If he's not immediately killed for treason I will be disappointed in history.

Sweet, nerdy detail. Who would have thought I would enjoy a multi-page description of a particular Roman apartment building?

A really fascinating view of the Jugurthine war. This really makes it seem like it was just a means for Metellus to stay governor and get richer. Kinda like Caesar and the Gallic wars, I guess.

Wow, Sulla is utterly ruthless.

The scene where the countries come to an agreement on war is amazing.

Managed to pour a full cup of coffee on my copy of this. To the on-hold until I manage another copy.

I almost don't want to face the end of this one.