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Sure, I'm in. Got just a little bit left of Claudius the God and need something interesting to read next.
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Just started, almost done with part one. Very readable and entertaining so far, got my inner Roman history geek tickled pretty good too.
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Jun 9, 2017 19:37
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History is generally full of batshit stuff like that.
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Jun 15, 2017 09:34
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Finished, was a good and cool read. Now I've got a craving for dried and salted cod and I'm also pretty sure I'll be putting the author's earlier book Cod on my to-read list. (I come from a long line of Norwegian fishermen -- everyone up to my grandfather and uncle made their living hauling fish (a lot of it cod) out of the North Sea. Dried and salted cod was a major export article from the region where I live (still is today, really, it's just the rest of the economy has grown more) and we traded a lot with the continent and got back some little bits of foreign culture -- the "national dish" of the area is an Portuguese-style casserole based on that dried and salted cod, featuring lots of tomatoes and olive oil and hot peppers and stuff that you wouldn't really associate with traditional Norwegian cuisine, but there you have it. Goddamn now I'm hungry.)
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Jun 19, 2017 08:44
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Kurlansky also wrote a similar history of cod, titled "Cod: a Biography of the Fish that Changed the World." I believe I may already have been aware of that, yes. ...seems these days for every book I read, my to-read pile grows by at least one more (#firstworldproblems)...
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Jun 21, 2017 18:32
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Well, as I already mentioned, salted cod is awesome, anyway.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:so everyone is agreed that, in honor of the death of noted author Michael Bond, next months' BotM will be "A Bear Called Paddington" Well, seems to be available on the Kindle and it would hit the "nonhuman perspective" point in the booklord challenge.
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