Tell me what you've read!
I have to look up this novel's author. I chose it because I had just
listened to I, Claudius (obviously); and Claudius hated Tiberius
and his son Caligula (no surprise there), and I wanted another viewpoint.
From what scant bits I remember from Ancient and Medieval History, Tiberius
was no lovebug; and (from slightly more racy sources) neither was Caligula.
I think whoever wrote this wrote this did so in reaction to I, Claudius.
Recorded books incorporated, narrated by George Guidall
September 1996
After Robert Graves appears briefly in Pat Barker's Regeneration,
I remembered him as the author of what I recalled to be one of CLH's favorite
books (turns out she denies this). So when I saw it in audio I seized it.
I began this on the plane going home, but have you noticed how loud planes
are? Instead I watched the country go by beneath me instead, and saw Lake
Michigan for the first time. This book died on the last reel, which was
really frustrating but forced me to find it in paper to see if it was written
as it was narrated. And it was not; Graves did not write Claudius's stutter.
You all who want to debate the meritorious interpretation of books into
audio recordings, go find a private chat room, okay? An hysterical, an historical
book (when I read British I spell British). I have to read his Goodbye
to All That, which is about World War I and so, considering that I ran
into him in a novel about World War I, kind of a tribute to Pat Barker.
A paradox.
August 1996
I began listening to this in June, but it took two months to finish it.
Written for the ear. All the songs and poem well interpreted. Liking The
Two Towers again (mostly because Gandalf returns). It came to me at
just the right time, too, but that story
belongs to its beginning.
June and July 1996
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