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kain_kusanagi on 15 January 2012

Read "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner. It's the best historical book about the industry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_doom

http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Culture/dp/0812972155/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326658333&sr=8-1

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badgenome on 15 January 2012

bugrimmar said:

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If you haven't already read it, Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield sounds right up your alley.

what's it about?

oh and i already read the caesar series of iggulden too.

It's a great fictional account of the Battle of Thermopylae. Probably my all time favorite book.

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c03n3nj0 on 15 January 2012

badgenome said:

bugrimmar said:

badgenome said:

If you haven't already read it, Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield sounds right up your alley.

what's it about?

oh and i already read the caesar series of iggulden too.

It's a great fictional account of the Battle of Thermopylae. Probably my all time favorite book.

I just looked that up on Amazon. Holy shit. I'm sold.

OT: I actually don't have many historical novels to recommend. I know Killer of Angels (on the civil war, very emotional) is supposed to be great.

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think-man on 15 January 2012

Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever, great read.

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Mendicate Bias on 15 January 2012

If you weren't just looking for historical novels I would have plenty of amazing reads I could point you towards. But since you specified the only book I can recommend is Pride of Carthage.

It's a retelling of Hannibals attack on Rome and is greatly done. The author also has another series called Acacia, and while it is fantasy he weaves in historical conflicts and modern geopolitical and philosophical dilemmas beautifully into the story.

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DeadNotSleeping on 15 January 2012

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
by Harriet Ann Jacobs, published 1861.
If you have a Kindle, this is free to download.

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Last_Dream on 15 January 2012

I can recommend Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa.... and also Romance of The Three Kingdom by Lua Guanzhong....

Both of it is a great book..... and I think it's already translated in many languages.....

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badgenome on 15 January 2012

c03n3nj0 said:

badgenome said:

bugrimmar said:

badgenome said:

If you haven't already read it, Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield sounds right up your alley.

what's it about?

oh and i already read the caesar series of iggulden too.

It's a great fictional account of the Battle of Thermopylae. Probably my all time favorite book.

I just looked that up on Amazon. Holy shit. I'm sold.

You won't regret it! It makes 300 seem like some Stephanie Meyer bullshit by comparison.

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2000cc on 16 January 2012

Try
'The Historian' by Elizabeth Kostova
'Baudolino' By Umberto Eco

Both historically based fiction & really good

Otherwise
'Brave new world' by Aldous Huxley (very similar to FF13's dystopian future concept & eerily prophetic to the current age in places)
'Never let me go' by Kazuo Ishiguro

For 'Dystopian future' social commentries

All are highly recommended

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SnakeDrake on 16 January 2012

I didn't read that book so did you learn anything new on Genghis Khan. I watched a lot of movies and documentaries about him. And if you want to know more about books. I'm sorry that's out of my flied. I mean I haven't even started reading the hunger game my brother brought.

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