# What to read along with Latro *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 21 Jan 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan Rabin *21 Jan 2003, 07:55* I've read the Latro books twice. The second time was after I read Herodotus. That helped a lot with the history and geography, besides being a lot of fun in itself. -- Dan Rabin --- ### Josh Geller *21 Jan 2003, 08:03 · follows Dan Rabin* > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Dan Rabin wrote: > I've read the Latro books twice. The second time was after I read > Herodotus. That helped a lot with the history and geography, besides > being a lot of fun in itself. Herodotos is great. Herodotos and Bernal Diaz del Castillo are perennially tied for being my favorite book. I reread them both at least once a year. . ---