Book Chat

Hey (yeah, 'Hey'...I'm really good at thinking up original ways to start by blog posts).  Anyways, is anyone reading anything good that I need to read too?  I hope so because I'm almost done with what I'm reading now, which sucks because its everything I had ever hoped for in terms of pages, typeface and information.  If anyone is interested in archaeology/history I would totally recommend 'The Battle that Stopped Rome'.  Its about this battle in 9 A.D. (Battle of Teutoburg Forest) on the Roman campaign into Germany.  Turns out, the Roman legions (3 of them!) got ambushed by this dude Arminius (a Germanic 'barbarian') and they got slaughtered really badly..  Like decimated (which isn't even the correct term technically because decimated really means to kill every tenth person...deca being the prefix denoting ten).  The book mostly deals with Roman era accounts from the likes of Tacitus and Cassious Dio but it relies heavily upon modern excavations of the battle site and neighboring villages.  The author is a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota and he really does a great job of tying together all kinds of sources.  Great stuff.  Now that its almost through, I'd totally appreciate any recommendations...either along those lines or otherwise.  <cue 'Reading Rainbow' music>