Colleen McCullough
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 1072 pages Rating: 4.36 | 6959 Users | 172 Reviews
Identify Books In Pursuance Of Fortune's Favorites (Gospodari Rima #1 (Part 3 of 3))
| Original Title: | Fortune's Favorites |
| ISBN: | 0380710838 (ISBN13: 9780380710836) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Gospodari Rima #1 (Part 3 of 3), Masters of Rome #3 |
| Characters: | Spartacus, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Julius Caesar, Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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They were blessed by the gods at birth with wealth and privilege. In a time of cataclysmic upheaval, a bold new generation of Romans vied for greatness amid the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic. But there was one who towered above them all -- a brilliant and beautiful boy whose ambition was unequaled, whose love was legend and whose glory was Rome's. A boy they would one day call "Caesar."Itemize Appertaining To Books Fortune's Favorites (Gospodari Rima #1 (Part 3 of 3))
| Title | : | Fortune's Favorites (Gospodari Rima #1 (Part 3 of 3)) |
| Author | : | Colleen McCullough |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1072 pages |
| Published | : | 1994 by Avon (first published 1993) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction |
Rating Appertaining To Books Fortune's Favorites (Gospodari Rima #1 (Part 3 of 3))
Ratings: 4.36 From 6959 Users | 172 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books Fortune's Favorites (Gospodari Rima #1 (Part 3 of 3))
one more Masters of Rome reread completing the trilogy about Marius and Sulla and my favorite 3 novels of the series; the second part here after Sulla's retirement is about the new generation, Caesar, Pompey and Crassus and it begins a new chapter in the series in so many ways which as mentioned before is still quite good but lacks the ambiguity of the earlier volumes as everything Caesar does is perfect and to the best, while his enemies are generally incompetent and/or stupid and that startsA bevy of mostly disgusting characters and outcomes march through this 3rd installment of the Rome series of heroic struggles in civil war incidents, in Asia Province and Spain, and other fights with pirates and rebellious slaves, I suppose to contrast with the character of Caesar who begins to fulfill his destiny as the greatest of the Romans. Caesar had an attitude of complete assurance that I found amazing under the circumstances of going on the run, being accused of sexual immorality, being
Story: 7 (Compelling start but plot becomes unfocused by the midpoint)Characters: 10 (Amazing and grotesque and memorable)Accuracy: 10 (Basically perfect if occasionally debatable)Fortunes Favorites is an apt title. The entire book is about the shifting of power and fortune. With Marius dead at the end of the last book Rome is now in the hands of Carbo. And Sulla is on his way home to claim his rightful place by force. Sulla is the first of the favorites clearly, but hes an old man; decayed,
This third volume of McCullough's 'Masters of Rome' series concerns Lucius Cornelius Sulla's rise to Dictator of Rome and his eventual retirement, as well as the budding careers of both Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar. I enjoyed this work more than the second book, but not quite as much as the first. I have to keep reminding myself that it's fiction, because the minute details seem very real.
Amazing. So much information in such an interesting story. If I didn't have 3 library books waiting I'd jump right into the next book in the series.
Before it was Caesar's Rome, it was Gaius Marius' Rome and Lucius Sulla's Rome. Before Caesar become the epicentre of Ancient Rome's history, there were other great generals who held the limelight. And to peek into the past, and to learn and live in a Rome just before Caesar, Colleen McCullough wrote two outstanding books The First Man in Rome and The Grass Crown. The third book in the series, Fortune's Favourites, crosses into the period when Caesar's stock in the Senate begins to increase. But
While there were a lot of interesting events in this book, I didn't find it as satisfying as the previous two in the series, I guess because there wasn't an overarching theme. Colleen McCullough dealt with the rise of Marius and Sulla, and Colleen McCullough was about the fall of Marius and the further rise of Sulla. Sulla continues to dominate the first part of Fortune's Favorites, but overall the book seemed a little disjointed. Caesar and the pirates, Spartacus, Cicero vs. Verres,
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