I asked this question a few months ago and figure I’d ask every few months because it was great to see the large response and it was nice to get book recommendations to add to my ever expanding pile to read. The book I most recently finished was The Cat Who Walked Through Walls by Heinlein and I’m currently reading The Strong Shall Live which is a series of short stories by Louis L’Amour. I have found a ton of his books at yard sales and they are usually sold for a quarter or 50 cents a piece so I have quite a few and this is the first one I’m reading. Also found the book Lonesome Dove along with L’Amour’s stuff. Anyway, what are yall reading?
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Livy's The War with Hannibal
Reject modern sources, embrace ancient ones.
Definitely one I’d love to read.
Teaser: a Roman consul commanding an army of slaves offers freedom in an imminent battle against the Carthaginians for each man who comes back with the head of a slain enemy.
The slaves are overenthusiastic once battle starts and become too busy trying collect and hold onto lopped of heads while fighting is still continuing. It nearly costs them the battle until the Roman commanders correct the behavior.