Discussion questions:
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What new books are you reading?
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Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?
Question of the week:
Who is your favorite author or authors?
Parenti’s Assassination of Julius Caesar.
Have been relistening Mike Duncan’s History of Rome a while ago and while it’s an excellent story he’s telling, it’s a bit strange how he sticks to the story told by ancient story tellers. Of great men driving history by their ambition, quest for honor, etc, etc. Just kept asking myself “what was the actual driving force here? What were the class antagonisms? Man I wish someone wrote a materialist history of this”.
Turns out the goat himself did. So refreshing to read history analyzed like this, critiquing the childish, idealist, individualist version we’re constantly told by mainstream historians and school books.
Also felt good to get some validation for the instinctual dislike I always had for the likes of Cicero, Cato, etc and the interest I had for the Gracci, Caesar and many of the famous tribunes.
Ah, interesting.
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Oh, that last one is one that I’ve had my sights on for a while.
For anyone still on the fence: a slumlord and a real estate developer get hacked to bits with a broadsword and not one moment of the book ever acts like this is a bad thing, really, because didn’t they have it coming?
this does sound compelling
Other threads include:
What video games are you playing? What have you finished recently? What do you plan to play? - Video Game General Discussion Thread #15
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/395127
And
What movies are you watching? What do you plan to watch? What have you watched recently? - Film/Cinema/TV Show/Streaming Show General Discussion Thread #15
