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Men of Bronze

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Robert E Howard. If you like him, you will like Scott Oden. After reading the book I thought about it for days, told everyone I know who, and even contacted Oden thanking him for writing such a good book.

Men of Bronze follows Barca the Phonenician, a man filled with rage, as he and his Medjay guard the eastern Egyptian boarder for Persians and Greeks.

Pros- reads like a cross between Howard and Steven Pressfield. ALOT of action.
Cons- no sequel, I want more.

Like it?

check out Odens other books. Memnon, Lion of Cairo, and the (forthcoming, 2011) Serpent of Hellas.

and/or Steven Pressfield, Michael Curtis Ford, and Nicholas Nicastro.

If you like the Dungeon&Dragons books then you will probably like this.If your taste runs more to Bernard Cornwell you probably want to give it a miss.

This is a somewhat sad story about soldiers who are fighting a war they know they can't win, but they keep fighting anyway. The best thing about the book was it's characters, for example Barca, Calisthenes and Phanes (technically the "bad guy", but I liked him anyway). They're really well drawn, you like them, want to know what happens to them, and can relate to them. Their thoughts and feelings about what they're doing could be applied to soldiers of any place and time period. I really enjoyed this book. At times the dialogue sounds a bit like a B action movie, but that's the only criticism I have. I look forward to more from Scott Oden in the future.