Robert Viking O'Brien Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Robert Viking O'Brien

I just finished @holland_tom's _Dynasty_ and am suffering withdrawal, wishing that he had another book continuing the story on through the Flavians and Nerva–Antonines. #amreading #RomanHistory

Robert Viking O'Brien

#BookRecommendation: @lfspinney's Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World. Reading about the aftereffects of the 1918 flu helped me imagine what the world might be like after #CoronaVirus. #AmReading while I #ShelterInPlace. #StayHomeSaveLives. https://t.co/wdWGQZyd0o

Robert Viking O'Brien

I enjoyed @KMFollett's depiction of the 16th- and 17th-centuries in Column of Fire, so I decided to try his novel of the early middle ages, Evening and the Morning. That was so entertaining that I reread Pillars of the Earth, read World Without End, and am now rereading Column! https://t.co/NKYwO0xFCB

Robert Viking O'Brien

After rereading Stephen Greenblatt's #Hamlet in Purgatory, I still find the Ghost mysterious, but I have a better understanding of the medieval source of much of its mystery. #BookRecommendation for #Bardophiles. https://t.co/KlqEntl9dm

Robert Viking O'Brien

#BookRecommendation for anyone interested in early 20th-century occultism: @GaryLachman's Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World. #AmReading while I #ShelterInPlace. #StayHomeSaveLives; #FlattenTheCurve. https://t.co/IBZ1uCgnTW

Robert Viking O'Brien

I can't imagine a more relevant book of #Shakespeare scholarship than Stephen Greenblatt's Tyrant. Don't miss this one, #Bardophiles. #BookRecommendation, #AmReading. https://t.co/ucg46YGVFn

Robert Viking O'Brien

Re-watching HBO's Rome and rereading @holland_tom's Rubicon has me wishing that #Shakespeare had written a play about Pompey the Great, so that we had linked trilogy of Roman history plays: Pompey, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra. #AmWatching, #AmReading. https://t.co/z0kcZvEchL

Robert Viking O'Brien

@YourSeth Coriolanus chap. in Marjorie Garber's Shakespeare After All is good to start. More complex: Janet Adelman's "Anger's My Meat."

Robert Viking O'Brien

In his terrific Red Rising series, @Pierce_Brown puts the epic in space epic. His war across the solar system keeps reminding me of Milton's war in heaven. #BookRecommendation, #AmReading. https://t.co/11YCXdyqWH

Robert Viking O'Brien

In _The #Vikings: A History_, Robert Ferguson uses sagas and other literary sources, runestones, and archaeology to tell a compelling, complex story. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the early Middle Ages. #AmReading. https://t.co/Ij0kkEVjOo