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In reply to the discussion: What's the last book you read? How would rate it---5 being great ---1 being it is not a reread. [View all]Aristus
(66,527 posts)50. Chronicle Of The Pharaohs.
Part of a series of "Chronicles Of..." books detailing the reigns of various historical monarchies, the Roman Emperors, the Popes, the Czars, and so on.
I think I have the whole series.
One glaring absence from the series that they need to correct pronto: "Chronicle of the Byzantine Emperors." I would snap that up in a heartbeat.
Chronicle Of The Pharaohs is very interesting. It confirms the assertion that the cheesy Hollywood movie "The Scorpion King" was at least correct in that the shadowy, mysterious, earliest known pharaoh is named "Scorpion".
As important as Pharaoh "King Tut" Tutankhamun is to archeology, the book puts him in his proper historical context as a minor, otherwise obscure ruler.
5/5.
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What's the last book you read? How would rate it---5 being great ---1 being it is not a reread. [View all]
debm55
Mar 24
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TY, Dirvaen. You might want to try the library. You don't have to pay for the books and when you take them back , they
debm55
Mar 24
#5
I finished Octavia Butler's book 1 "Dawn" of her Xeogenisis/Lilith's Brood Trilogy...
electric_blue68
Mar 24
#10
Last one I finished was fiction - Victory City by Salman Rushdie; give it a 4
Backseat Driver
Mar 25
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