the guardian has been running a serialisation of 1000 books that should be read. aside from finding out i’d read only 208, it did introduce me to robert graves’ “count belisarius”, which i’d not heard of before. i’ve read ” i claudius” and remember seeing derek jacobi in the tv series in the late 1970s when i was shorter (zac’s age, i think - hard to imagine zac watching this sort of thing now). and i like belisarius, from reading gibbon. the beauty of the net is that i can read the first page, which is just great.
