Artisan of Rome A Tale of the Ancient Republic edition by Kenneth Farmer Literature Fiction eBooks
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The wars between Rome and Carthage were some of the most titanic of that era and the stretch of time between the first and last being more than the lifetime of a man. In the years before the start of that strife, a young man - knowing of nothing beyond the dirt-alley of his childhood - is blown here and yon between far and unknown places, until he finds himself between the two snarling adversaries and forced to make a decision to support either his birth-land or his homeland.
Artisan of Rome A Tale of the Ancient Republic edition by Kenneth Farmer Literature Fiction eBooks
I reviewed the mistitled Founder of Rome book by Mr. Farmer and found it an excellent story, unfortunately marred by incompetent or no editing. The same applies to Artisan of Rome. The author’s custom is to write about an indigent boy with innate abilities who works hard, minds his manners, and eventually rises to the top. Horatio Alger, as pointed out by another reviewer. Nothing wrong with that. This boy starts out as an apprentice and ends up as an expert shipwright in first the Carthaginian then the nascent Roman navy. A lot of things happen to him along the way, some good, some bad, always interesting. But he never makes a misstep along the way, never says the wrong thing to a superior, never has an unworthy thought. He’s too perfect to be human. That said, the story is a good one and holds the reader’s attention. The author has done a lot of research into the ancient history and the ships of the time and deserves credit for that. I’d give the story four stars.Once again, the author has spoiled his good story by careless writing and failure to have it edited. The very first word in the text is wrong: the author’s introductory remarks are a Foreword, not a forward. In that foreword, the author laments not knowing the Punic terms for parts of a ship. Thank goodness. The reader is spared that at least. Throwing Punic, Latin and Greek words into the text serves no useful purpose and irritates the reader, especially when the spelling changes from page to page. Calling a woman a femina, a girl a puella, and a captain a capitaneus (variously spelled and a word that probably did not exist at the time) is ridiculous when you’re writing in English. And the dialogue is in some sort of contrived, pseudo-archaic English. The people in this story would have been speaking colloquial Latin (not Latini) or Greek of their time, so their speech can be rendered as ordinary colloquial English of our time. Invented words like noticement, truthsome, goodsome, the Latin words sinister and dexter for left and right, are unnecessary and do nothing to advance the story. The same with incorrect use of Latin, especially plurals: the plural of negotiator is negotiatores, that of pilum (spear) is pila (pili means hairs), that of as (the coin) is asses. Pater has no accent over the e (Latin had no accents on any of the letters). Cocua is a female cook, cocuus the male. To issue body water is to sweat, for goodness sakes. The truth is that virtually every page has at least one or more obvious errors in the English or Latin, or incomprehensible sentence structure, and I can’t speak for the Greek or Punic words. Please, oh please, get an editor.
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Artisan of Rome A Tale of the Ancient Republic edition by Kenneth Farmer Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
interesting journey of a Roman who had nothing to one who had everything. a joy to follow the adventures.
Please please another book soon. I completely immerse myself in all of Farmers stories and am unable to put them down till I finish and then I'm unhappy because I am finished.
All of Ken Farmer's books provide a useful source of history while weaving an interesting storyline. This was no exception.
Very interesting and easy read with enough information about the era it is also nice beeing about earlier rome than we mostly read about
The author does a bit of a Tom Clancy level of detail in the specifics of Punic construction methods of naval vessels etc., but besides those lengthy encounters, a rather enjoyable tome
An interesting adventure written about a time seldom explored. The author allows the reader to participate in the story by making it accessible and clear, and it is well paced and engaging. One star off for the far too frequent use of some kind of contrived Elizabethan-esqe lingo that is often absurd and distracting - as set dressing a little of that goes a very long way.
On the whole I would recommend this book and will read more of this author.
I'm sure Mr. Farmer wanted this book to be as accurate as possible. However, it is an extremely difficult book to read written the way the people of ancient Rome may have actually spoken. To me, practically all the sentences needed to be
read slowly in order for me to understand what they were really saying. I don't believe I'm stupid, but I found th wording to be so confusing I never finished the book. Thus the one star.
I reviewed the mistitled Founder of Rome book by Mr. Farmer and found it an excellent story, unfortunately marred by incompetent or no editing. The same applies to Artisan of Rome. The author’s custom is to write about an indigent boy with innate abilities who works hard, minds his manners, and eventually rises to the top. Horatio Alger, as pointed out by another reviewer. Nothing wrong with that. This boy starts out as an apprentice and ends up as an expert shipwright in first the Carthaginian then the nascent Roman navy. A lot of things happen to him along the way, some good, some bad, always interesting. But he never makes a misstep along the way, never says the wrong thing to a superior, never has an unworthy thought. He’s too perfect to be human. That said, the story is a good one and holds the reader’s attention. The author has done a lot of research into the ancient history and the ships of the time and deserves credit for that. I’d give the story four stars.
Once again, the author has spoiled his good story by careless writing and failure to have it edited. The very first word in the text is wrong the author’s introductory remarks are a Foreword, not a forward. In that foreword, the author laments not knowing the Punic terms for parts of a ship. Thank goodness. The reader is spared that at least. Throwing Punic, Latin and Greek words into the text serves no useful purpose and irritates the reader, especially when the spelling changes from page to page. Calling a woman a femina, a girl a puella, and a captain a capitaneus (variously spelled and a word that probably did not exist at the time) is ridiculous when you’re writing in English. And the dialogue is in some sort of contrived, pseudo-archaic English. The people in this story would have been speaking colloquial Latin (not Latini) or Greek of their time, so their speech can be rendered as ordinary colloquial English of our time. Invented words like noticement, truthsome, goodsome, the Latin words sinister and dexter for left and right, are unnecessary and do nothing to advance the story. The same with incorrect use of Latin, especially plurals the plural of negotiator is negotiatores, that of pilum (spear) is pila (pili means hairs), that of as (the coin) is asses. Pater has no accent over the e (Latin had no accents on any of the letters). Cocua is a female cook, cocuus the male. To issue body water is to sweat, for goodness sakes. The truth is that virtually every page has at least one or more obvious errors in the English or Latin, or incomprehensible sentence structure, and I can’t speak for the Greek or Punic words. Please, oh please, get an editor.
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