Legions of Rome

Silent Disapproval Robot · August 17, 2012, 06:43:01 PM

I see this is on sale at Amazon right now. I am thinking of picking it up but some of the reader reviews have given me pause. Anyone read it? Worth the $18 for the Kindle version?

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1250004713/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB

Gusington · August 17, 2012, 06:51:22 PM

I have this in my basket right now as well. How bad could it really be? Even crappy pizza is still pizza.

Silent Disapproval Robot · August 17, 2012, 07:00:09 PM

You've obviously never had Korean pizza (cabbage and carrot slices) or Japanese pizza (mayonnaise and sweet corn).

Gusington · August 17, 2012, 07:03:12 PM

^WTF? I typed 'pizza' not 'wet Asian garbage.'

Silent Disapproval Robot · August 17, 2012, 07:07:24 PM

Look on it and despair!

Gusington · August 17, 2012, 07:24:29 PM

^That...THAT...is not pizza.

Greybriar · August 18, 2012, 12:24:27 AM

^ That is gross looking is what that is.

TheCommandTent · August 18, 2012, 07:19:15 AM

^I think I threw up a little in my mouth. :(

MetalDog · August 18, 2012, 08:03:54 AM

Quote from: Gusington on August 17, 2012, 06:51:22 PM
Even crappy pizza is still pizza.

You, sir, have the benefit of living in the pizza capital of the world. Take it from someone who has had to eat chain pizza and awful mom & pop stuff for the last twenty plus years, crappy pizza IS crappy pizza.

Gusington · August 18, 2012, 10:28:30 AM

We can make a deal and I can export some NYC tap water down to you. It's the water that makes NYC pizza and bagels the wonders of humanity that they are. I will never eat chain pizza btw. Ever. But I would think the Mom & pop stuff has got to be decent. No?

MetalDog · August 18, 2012, 01:39:52 PM

Take this for what it is, gas station pizza here is considered not only edible but good. 'nuff said.

Gusington · August 18, 2012, 03:02:55 PM

Pizza at gas stations? That sounds wonderful. Seriously. We don't have that here.

W8taminute · August 18, 2012, 05:37:02 PM

I'll second what MetalDog said about gas station pizza. There are a couple of gas stations in my area that actually have halfway decent pizza if you're on your work lunch break. The only chain pizza I eat is Papa Gino's which is also not too bad. The best pizza I ever had however is Hi Fi Pizza in Cambridge, MA. A small mom and pop shop he still makes his pizza the same way after 25+ years in the business. They guy that works behind the counter is still the same guy for the past 16 years as well. :)

Martok · August 19, 2012, 10:48:54 AM

Quote from: Gusington on August 17, 2012, 06:51:22 PM
Even crappy pizza is still pizza.

Unfortunately, this is not the case.

Like 'phro, I too have had crappy pizza. You might think it's impossible for it to be bad, but trust me...it's possible.

Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 17, 2012, 07:07:24 PM
Look on it and despair!

Oh, the humanity!! :o

besilarius · August 19, 2012, 02:01:33 PM

The story we were told as kids was that pizza was invented (sort of) in Sicily. But it was developed by Greek immigrants in NYC.
When my dad first went to Naples, they tried the pizza, and it was horrible. Bread as thick as your wrist, and the house special was stewed tomatoes on top, with a little drizzle of cheese.
He had enjoyed the pizza in NYC a lot (there was a little spot near the Brooklyn Navy Yard that had great pizza.) and figured it would be tops in Italy.
Supposedly, it was some Greeks who tried pizza and decided they could improve on it.