I got back a week ago from a business trip to Romania. On the trip i finished up one Colleen McCullough book (First Man in Rome) and read through another (Thorn Birds).
Neither of these are profound or are Nobel Prize threats. The plots lines and characters do not have the strongest credibility. Colleen is not putting a mirror to real life.
Nevertheless, the books are great to read. Very entertaining
(and not totally unrealistic . . . not talking
a Hollywood script). They are extremely well researched and do a great job of transporting you to Ancient Rome and early 20th cent. Australia. A great way to learn.
And a great way to refresh your being. On my trip I felt that I was half putting around Transylvania, half floating through the Outback. Which, on the return, was a great perspective-rattler and dropped me back home renewed and refreshed.
Thanks to the genius of writers who make this sort of thing happen.
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