Got this from the Betts Books sale.
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I don't think I have posted these before. These are all of my Gibbins books. All signed except Atlantis, which I am happy about anyway since there were only 1,500 hardbacks printed of which 500 went to libraries.
I'll give a quick review in case my awesome photography piques anyones interest in the books.
He is an archaeologist by trade and you can tell that in the writing, meaning that you can tell he writes a lot of journal articles and the like. The history involved and the theories posited by the characters are well researched and plausible. However, he can get very wordy, which can bog down the story. The book that suffered the most because of this was The Tiger Warrior. It just died out at the end. Why do I keep reading them you ask? I love the history behind them, and having an anthropology/archaeology background myself, I find it very interesting and feel like I learn something from every book.
Also, he uses the word "murmur" in some form so much, that at times I want to throw the book at the wall (luckily I am reading on an iPad so I can keep myself from throwing a $400 piece of electronics at the wall).Last edited by Joe315; 07-17-2013, 02:54 AM.
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