The Mark of The Horse Lord by: Rosemary Sutcliff

I extremely enjoyed the book The Mark of The Horse Lord. It is a book that is set back in ancient Rome where men fought to death in the arena for a crowds amusement. The main character was a gladitor which was one of the few to win freedom but quickly is abducted and is basically forced to take part in a revoultion. I reccomend reading this book for 2 reasons. 1 because it actually was quite an enjoyable read and I could see it had some ties to atleast one major movie, "The Gladitor", it had many twists and diffrent stories going on and was a real page turner and a good ending. Reason 2 was that Mark of the Horselord shows what it was like for people back then and how violent and how hard it was to have peace and for everyone to be happy. It goes to show that the peace in the world now was worked for by 1000's of years of violence.

For the main character I would cast Russel Crowe because he has done similar movies to it and has the right look and type of body build. In the book the gladitor has been in the service for many years only becoming smarter at one thing, fighting. Russel Crowe seems like the actor who with training can look like a skilled fighter and skill to act out crucial scenes. Also for the brutal warrior female who falls in love with the main character should be Kate Winslett because I think her acting can range from anything and she seems the kind of person who could do this role. These would be my main choice of actors but there are many more I could see filling the shoes of these roles.

Reading this book was fun but somethings I didn't like and I will tell you if you decide to read this book the problems and boring things about it. Reason 1 for not reading this book is it sometimes can get very wordy, and long. Reason 2 is the writing is from the 50's so it uses diffrent words that people wouldn't use these days so sometimes is hard to decipher.

-WILL WILD