Hey Yea Forums first time here.
Today I went shooping and saw some books that interested me. And so before i bought them I wanted another person's opinion on them. It's about five off them so I'll post the covers off them.
Book Reviews
Liam Ortiz
Kevin Edwards
2nd
Dylan Green
3rd
David Lopez
4th
Joshua Evans
5th
Evan Morgan
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Luis Brooks
I haven't read any of them but i will warn you that crossboarders here will shit on Mary Beard because of some /pol/ twitter nonsense from years ago. It won't be likely that you will find an honest opinion on her books.
Levi Nguyen
How do you know they are wrong if you haven't read her books? Your post is as retarded as any of theirs might be.
Landon Lee
all shitlib nonsense , read guenon who retroactively debunked whitehead
Gavin Edwards
He didn't say that they were.
Brody Myers
If you want to read Roman history just read the primary sources. (Suetonius, Tacitus, Plutarch etc). Beard is a hack, and if you really need to read pop-historians at least go for Goldsworthy or Holland.
I don't know anything about the second book looks like total schlock.
Daniel Miller
I've read it. Its not awful but its not great either. I know its a meme but reading the original texts (translated) is more fun and rewarding than pop-history and requires only a little more effort.
Ryan Rogers
This one is kind of interesting if you have no prior knowledge of geopolitics. If you do, it's simplistic and you probably know everything in it. Haven't read the others.
Ryan Gomez
oh, so she must be good
Luke Lee
>History book written by a female
It belongs in the bin.
Tyler Cooper
i'm a classics student so will only offer view on spqr, it is a pop history book so expect pop history but it is better than most
Noah Sullivan
that book is one simplistic and superficial way to position yourself as a writer
how do i know? i counted
Isaac Peterson
I only feel contempt towards you.
Kill yourself.
Jonathan Cook
great book, read it along side the guys posted heredont know
Nathaniel Rogers
The Thirty Years War by Veronica Wedgwood is good.
James Morgan
I didn't ask for your opinion.
Mason Evans
lmao. i legit struggle to follow this board anymore.
Liam Thompson
Don't bother reading Mary Beard, even by pop history standards it's rather subpar. If you want some decent modern pop history on Rome read something by Peter Brown or Tom Holland, if you want something a little beyond that go with Edward Watts or Ferdinand Addis.
Luis Ross
>reee /pol/ boogeymen
Mary beard is a pseudo intellectual hack who revises history. Maybe you should actually read the book you pleb
Josiah Scott
I haven't read SPQR but I do recommend giving Tony Spawforth's book a try. The author does a great job of connecting the dots--culturally, militarily, politically--between Greece and Rome.
James Torres
It wasn't /pol/ it was Nassim Taleb. And he was right to trash her.
Easton Sanders
post feet
Aiden King
Political Order and Political Decay is better
Daniel Campbell
Only read SPQR, and found it was too smugly (and even irreflexibly) dismissive of primary sources and annoyingly hamfisted