robert harris

Has anyone read this book? I've been wanting to get it for some time. Now the film (Polanski directed, Harris's screenplay) premiered at Venice Film Festival, I think it's about the time for me to finally read it before watching the film. Here is Harris talking about the book and its...

As with the rest of the series so far - Imperium, Lustrum - Dictator is top notch, with a wonderful and fluid easy style that somehow captures a sense of Ancient Rome without drowning the reader in infodumps. However, I was thrown completely out of the text when Cicero made the narrator, Tiro...

The opening two scenes felt a little slow to me - but since then it's been whizzing along. Never been so enthralled by a story about a water engineer! His use of prose to convey historical detail is masterful - enough to allow a picture, but nothing so detailed as to detract from the pace.

The Fear Index Robert Harris Knopf, Jan 31 2012, $25.95 ISBN: 9780307957931 When the Feds defunded the Texas super collider, Dr. Alex Hoffmann obtains a position as a physicist at CERN in Switzerland. When he suffers a nervous breakdown, he leaves Geneva. Alex takes with him VIXAL-4, an...

Found a copy of this on the discount counter yesterday, and have seen it described here as one of the best books about ancient Rome written in the past few years - in addition to Harris's book Pompeii. So ... I'm assuming that Imperium is pretty darned good. I see that, according to Fantastic...