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Right now I’m reading an account of King Mithridates. It’s called The Last King by Michael Curtis Ford. I picked it up at Wal-Mart because I was desperate for reading material, and now I’m wondering how accurate this information actually is. It seems to gloss over a great deal of detail, which is perhaps for the best. If it’s a choice between omission and falsification, I’d vote for omission. Unfortunately, some of the story elements are a bit hard to accept as fact. It’s a fun read, but I’ll have to do some digging after I’ve finished the book.

I enjoyed The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone. It’s not entirely accurate, but it was a very good fictional account of Michelangelo Buonarroti’s life. That one’s on my bookshelf to stay.

I also liked Red Branch by Morgan Llywelyn, a retelling of the life of Cuchulain. I never got around to reading Lion of Ireland, but I’ve heard it’s one of her best books.

Anyone have any recommendations?

Edit: I enjoy books which accurately portray the life of a given period as much as fictional biographies of historical figures. The best example might be Alaska by James A. Michener. It was a struggle to finish that book because it covered so much time and so many small details of daily life, and many of the characters & subplots were purely fictional. I did pick up quite a bit of information, though - even if it took me two months to do it.