Fear Our Offal Cries!
Jan. 19th, 2009 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ggreigI’ve just finished reading Between the Rivers, by Harry Turtledove. For more detail, follow the link, but it follows the fortunes of a particular resident of the city of Gibil who, among other achievements, manages to set off a war between his city and the neighbouring one.
Maybe it’s just me but I don’t think, if I were a native of Gibil, that I would be inspired to acts of bravery in the field by the war cry: Forward the Giblut! Forward the Giblut!
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Date: 2009-01-20 09:09 am (UTC)If you fancy trying the Videssos books, it's the Videssos Cycle you want first, the first book of which is The Misplaced Legion.
The other two series step further back in history, and there's a relatively recent standalone book (2005) that I haven't read yet, but which goes back further still to "the beginning".