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Original Title:	Fortune's Favorites
ISBN:	0380710838 (ISBN13: 9780380710836)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Gospodari Rima #1 (Part 3 of 3), Masters of Rome #3
Characters:	Spartacus, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Julius Caesar, Marcus Tullius Cicero

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They were blessed by the gods at birth with wealth and privilege. In a time of cataclysmic upheaval, a bold new generation of Romans vied for greatness amid the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic. But there was one who towered above them all -- a brilliant and beautiful boy whose ambition was unequaled, whose love was legend and whose glory was Rome's. A boy they would one day call "Caesar."

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Title	:	Fortune's Favorites (Gospodari Rima #1 (Part 3 of 3))
Author	:	Colleen McCullough
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1072 pages
Published	:	1994 by Avon (first published 1993)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

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Picking this up for my June read in my year-long Tome Topple challenge.***Like the first two installments in her Masters of Rome series, McCullough's writing and research is impeccable, but sadly, fortune didn't totally favour me on this one. I felt a little bit bogged down by everything, a little bit removed and disinterested from the plot, and, if I'm honest, a little bit bored at various times throughout the novel.I struggled right from the start - 200 odd pages of military manoeuvres and

This third volume of McCullough's 'Masters of Rome' series concerns Lucius Cornelius Sulla's rise to Dictator of Rome and his eventual retirement, as well as the budding careers of both Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar. I enjoyed this work more than the second book, but not quite as much as the first. I have to keep reminding myself that it's fiction, because the minute details seem very real.

Before it was Caesar's Rome, it was Gaius Marius' Rome and Lucius Sulla's Rome. Before Caesar become the epicentre of Ancient Rome's history, there were other great generals who held the limelight. And to peek into the past, and to learn and live in a Rome just before Caesar, Colleen McCullough wrote two outstanding books The First Man in Rome and The Grass Crown. The third book in the series, Fortune's Favourites, crosses into the period when Caesar's stock in the Senate begins to increase. But

A bevy of mostly disgusting characters and outcomes march through this 3rd installment of the Rome series of heroic struggles in civil war incidents, in Asia Province and Spain, and other fights with pirates and rebellious slaves, I suppose to contrast with the character of Caesar who begins to fulfill his destiny as the greatest of the Romans. Caesar had an attitude of complete assurance that I found amazing under the circumstances of going on the run, being accused of sexual immorality, being

one more Masters of Rome reread completing the trilogy about Marius and Sulla and my favorite 3 novels of the series; the second part here after Sulla's retirement is about the new generation, Caesar, Pompey and Crassus and it begins a new chapter in the series in so many ways which as mentioned before is still quite good but lacks the ambiguity of the earlier volumes as everything Caesar does is perfect and to the best, while his enemies are generally incompetent and/or stupid and that starts

In my opinion, this third in the series about the fall of the Roman Republic is the best so far. There are fewer wars in far-flung provinces to witness and a greater concentration on the foibles of the major characters with reasons given for these weaknesses. Perhaps I will manage to complete the seven book series after all.

It taught me to be subtle as well as powerful, it taught me to hide my light when showing it might have snuffed it out, it taught me that time is a more valuable ally than money or mentors, it taught me the patience my mother used to think I would never ownand it taught me that nothing is wasted! I am still learning - A boy they would one day call "Caesar."Wonderful book, seriously ;)And now to Caesar's Women (Masters of Rome, #4) :)