07-14-2002, 01:23 PM
Just finished THE EAGLE'S CONQUEST.<br>
Very great fun! I enjoyed it very much and cann't wait to read the first adventure that I haven't found yet in Italy. I found this one in Florence train station and read half of it that very same day!<br>
But I would betray my nature if I did not complain just a tad. Just three things:<br>
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1) I found the description of Claudius very funny but I think Scarrow makes him come accross too much as an idiot. But again maybe this is how the military judge most civilians anyway! Giving Claudius at least some intelligence would have been more effective in underlining the difference of perception of things between 100% military men, 100% non-military men, and those in between that learn to see things in a broad and flexible way, a group that included figures such as Vespesian, at least as history decribes him turning out to be.<br>
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2) I found the presence in the story of a direct blood descendant of Hannibal a little too far fetched. It would have been more credible and effective had the chararcter in question been only an wishful-think indirect descendant. That would have made his nostalgic tendecies a little more out-of-touch with reality and fit better with his behaviour.<br>
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3) The very last sentence of the book... well I'll wait for comments of others.<br>
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Scarrow. My compliments!<br>
With sincere admiration<br>
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Jeff<br>
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p.s. Will Cato and Marcus will end up on the Eastern front one day, fighting Parthians or Jews? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/ugoffredo.showPublicProfile?language=EN>goffredo</A> at: 7/17/02 8:29:21 am<br></i>
Very great fun! I enjoyed it very much and cann't wait to read the first adventure that I haven't found yet in Italy. I found this one in Florence train station and read half of it that very same day!<br>
But I would betray my nature if I did not complain just a tad. Just three things:<br>
<br>
1) I found the description of Claudius very funny but I think Scarrow makes him come accross too much as an idiot. But again maybe this is how the military judge most civilians anyway! Giving Claudius at least some intelligence would have been more effective in underlining the difference of perception of things between 100% military men, 100% non-military men, and those in between that learn to see things in a broad and flexible way, a group that included figures such as Vespesian, at least as history decribes him turning out to be.<br>
<br>
2) I found the presence in the story of a direct blood descendant of Hannibal a little too far fetched. It would have been more credible and effective had the chararcter in question been only an wishful-think indirect descendant. That would have made his nostalgic tendecies a little more out-of-touch with reality and fit better with his behaviour.<br>
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3) The very last sentence of the book... well I'll wait for comments of others.<br>
<br>
Scarrow. My compliments!<br>
With sincere admiration<br>
<br>
Jeff<br>
<br>
p.s. Will Cato and Marcus will end up on the Eastern front one day, fighting Parthians or Jews? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/ugoffredo.showPublicProfile?language=EN>goffredo</A> at: 7/17/02 8:29:21 am<br></i>
Jeffery Wyss
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
