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Onceuponalife

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9. Caesar by Colleen McCullough
Mon May 14, 2012, 12:40 AM
May 2012

Just finished Bones of the Dragon by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman and I loved it. The only other thing I'd read of theirs was the first Dragonlance trilogy but Bones is much better. It's basically about men and gods battling ogres and THEIR gods. OK, that sounds WAY more simplistic than it is lol. A very good fantasy story that also involves weird druids and their fae overlords. Just found out that this will be a six book series, which is good news.

Now about 100 pages into Caesar, my first Colleen McCullough book. This seems to be part of a series about the historic Roman general, circa 50-70, B.C. Pretty engrossing so far but, oy! those long, difficult names!

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