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New Category -- Roman Period

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Mim
Scribbler
Posts: 7
Joined: February 2016
Currently reading: Sapiens, A Brief History of Himankind
Interest in HF: I love history and putting together the facts of historical periods with fictional characters.
Favourite HF book: As A Driven Leaf
Preferred HF: Roman Period
Location: Jerusalem

New Category -- Roman Period

Post by Mim » Sun April 24th, 2016, 5:14 am

This is my period of special interest, it's the one I wrote my own historical novel about. There seems to be a perpetual interest in this topic -- there's a new version of the movie "Ben-Hur" this year. Now there's an interesting book to discuss --the novel "Ben Hur" (originally the name of a biblical character, by the way) was written by Lewis Wallace, U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, among other roles. A devout Christian, he visited Jerusalem and wrote his novel inspired by what he saw and felt there. How did the early visitors from the West view the land and use it as a backdrop for their literary work is a topic I would like to explore further.

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MLE (Emily Cotton)
Bibliomaniac
Posts: 3566
Joined: August 2008
Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
Location: California Bay Area

Re: New Category -- Roman Period

Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Sun April 24th, 2016, 4:20 pm

I loved the movie Ben Hur as a kid, so when the audio book came up at a discount, I bought it. I confess that the dense, flowery 19th-century style of writing stopped me cold after an hour. It's like Jane Eyre on steroids.
Maybe I'll get the ebook version so I can skip ahead to where the real story starts.

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