What were his first choice of books?
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He's German and moved to Latinamerica in the 50s.
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Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis and some other book about Rome that I don't remember.
What were his first choice of books?
He's German and moved to Latinamerica in the 50s.
Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis and some other book about Rome that I don't remember.
Aren't those in the public domain? He doesn't need piracy for that! Was the other one Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii?
He'll also like Robert Graves's I, Claudius and Claudius the God; Steven Saylor's detective novels based on Cicero speeches, and maybe some of Colleen McCullough's First Men of Rome series before it gets too Caesar-can-do-no-wrong. Maybe Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian.
For Viking stories - The Long Ships, by Frans Bengtsson.
Oh, for sure, they're all 19th century books. He can probably get everything he's interested in reading from Project Gutenberg or something.
No, it wasn't The Last Days of Pompeii, it ended with am Rom I think.
I'll pass on those recommendations lol. When I was a kid he had us reading the viking stories in the car on the way to school so we would practice our German, I thought they were cool stories tbh. I had forgotten all about them until I read Jared Diamond's Collapse book recently.