The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Epic Book Gains
Aired: 2015-06-24
Duration: 04:03


=== Glorious Book Gains (02:47) ===

[00:00:10]  Greetings my glorious true friends.
[00:00:13]  Today I want to show you my book gains I've made.
[00:00:16]  One of the best feels in the world.
[00:00:18]  Get into the bookshoopa, browse around, find new glorious books.
[00:00:22]  Now obviously I usually know what I'm after but it's always fun to see you know new books which have been coming in etc.
[00:00:30]  Just before I begin, I'm still this book, so almost finished with this.
[00:00:36]  Third book in the King Arthur trilogy by MK Hume.
[00:00:40]  Can really recommend it.
[00:00:41]  I thought about making a separate book recommendation regarding this but I'm making it now instead.
[00:00:47]  Very solid books.
[00:00:49]  Gives that a semi-grimdark feel to it and a good connection with the Britain that was a bit more Roman-esque in its influence.
[00:01:00]  So none of that high fancy stuff.
[00:01:04]  So since I was in the late Roman era culture stack I thought read this and great books.
[00:01:10]  Definitely can recommend them.
[00:01:11]  And then secondly I thought about switching to a Greek like a Hellenic culture stack in the coming days.
[00:01:18]  So I choose the fourth installment of this series.
[00:01:23]  The first book is called Killer of Men regarding a Greek hero that goes around killing people basically.
[00:01:32]  Really solid books.
[00:01:33]  They fight against the Persians but the book is really nuanced so that the Persians are they are the enemy but they aren't all cruel like in 300.
[00:01:42]  Now obviously I like 300, I love the film but it's a bit black and white for my taste.
[00:01:47]  So this portrays the persons much better.
[00:01:51]  And obviously it's Christian Cameron that also wrote Alexander God of War.
[00:01:55]  Thirdly a new series by our main man Harry Sidebottom obviously a historian that wrote another very solid series about an angle guy called Marcus Ballista who fought for the Romans.
[00:02:11]  So that series is really good and since it was so good I insta-bought this, like the first installment of a new series.
[00:02:19]  So I look forward to that very much and I have high hopes.
[00:02:22]  Next we have a The Curse of Babylon.
[00:02:25]  Now this was actually on special offer.
[00:02:27]  You got like the fourth book for free so I choose this because I read the first of those books so I'm actually gonna have to read one, two, three books before I delve into this but I have that on on hold per se.
[00:02:40]  And it's also in the late Roman era.
[00:02:44]  615 AD Fucking massive.
[00:02:49]  Admire my shoulders there.
[00:02:52]  And the beard of glory grants me wisdom.

=== Reading in the Sun (01:05) ===

[00:02:57]  And obviously how about some glorious book games in the Horus Heresy.
[00:03:08]  So yeah, two books after each other.
[00:03:10]  I read Legion a few weeks back.
[00:03:13]  Really solid book.
[00:03:14]  Can definitely recommend that as well.
[00:03:16]  So I'm gonna read those.
[00:03:18]  I don't know when, but they're quite fast to read.
[00:03:21]  They're not that thick and very interesting so they tend to get read out quite easily.
[00:03:28]  So yeah, that's my little book gains for this month.
[00:03:34]  I hope you have gotten some inspiration to read a bit more yourself.
[00:03:38]  And obviously, as I might have mentioned before, I read either in the sun, best fucking thing in the world, or before I go to sleep.
[00:03:45]  So it's more of a routine, it's not like I sit and read all day, it's basically just half an hour before bed or as long as the sun is up if I'm not doing anything else.
[00:03:56]  It's like sunbathing with a book.
[00:04:00]  Anywho, am I?
[00:04:01]  I'm the lion of wisdom.
[00:04:02]  X-Rayxo.