I have my eye on "Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry", a newly published history by Adrian Goldsworthy whose books I'm not familiar with. Are you at all familiar and able to recommend his books in general? It'd be quite a big undertaking so I'm a little reticent otherwise.
Couldn't say. But--forgive the pedantry--you mean "hesitant," not "reticent." Some dictionaries have surrendered and now allowed "reluctant" as a definition of "reticent," but properly it means unwilling to speak.
You know, it felt wrong and I did hesitate but then I looked it up quickly online where there was a tertiary definition "reluctant". No problem, and thanks anyway. Maybe I should just chance it with the book.
I picked up a copy and I've been delighted at the sequel so far.
I hope you appreciate the tragic nobility and pathos of Auguste the Bonapartist penguin.
No other flightless bird knows woe like he.
I'm reading my copy at the moment, wonderful fun.
An unrelated question, Dr. Hart:
I have my eye on "Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry", a newly published history by Adrian Goldsworthy whose books I'm not familiar with. Are you at all familiar and able to recommend his books in general? It'd be quite a big undertaking so I'm a little reticent otherwise.
Couldn't say. But--forgive the pedantry--you mean "hesitant," not "reticent." Some dictionaries have surrendered and now allowed "reluctant" as a definition of "reticent," but properly it means unwilling to speak.
You know, it felt wrong and I did hesitate but then I looked it up quickly online where there was a tertiary definition "reluctant". No problem, and thanks anyway. Maybe I should just chance it with the book.
No chance of an audiobook for us digital peasants?
Well, not for a while st least.
Ordered my copy!
Ah, but only one?
Excited to read it!
How could one not be? It’s so gripping.