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Genghis: Birth of an Empire | 
 enlarge | Author: Conn Iggulden
Publisher: Dell
Category: Book
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Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 9326
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Pages: 560
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0440243904
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780440243908
ASIN: 0440243904
Publication Date: February 26, 2008
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He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin’s young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin endured—and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon.
Through a series of courageous raids against the Tartars, Temujin’s legend grew. And so did the challenges he faced—from the machinations of a Chinese ambassador to the brutal abduction of his young wife, Borte. Blessed with ferocious courage, it was the young warrior’s ability to learn, to imagine, and to judge the hearts of others that propelled him to greater and greater power. Until Temujin was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of a thousand warhorses, to subject unknown nations and even empires to his will.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Outstanding December 13, 2008
An easy read that I couldn't put down. This book has a huge wow factor.
 Bought this as an Unabridged Audio CD December 3, 2008
This is a pretty good action/adventure historical novel. I really was unfamiliar with Mongolia, so I found it educational as well as entertaining. The reader is pretty good (not the absolute best, but they are few and far between).
I understand this is the first of a trilogy, and only follows Genghis into his young man-hood.
I was a little irritated that the reader kept mis-pronouncing his name and Gen-gis, with the hard G's, when it's really Jen-gis. I know this because I have a friend who recently made a trip to Mongolia, and she said the natives there pronounce it correctly as Jen-gis.
Addictive and Spellingbinding November 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Conn Iggulden does a great job of entrenching the reader into the world of a young Genghis Khan.
This is the first time I have read a book from the author, but from the first chapter the book is addictive and difficult to put down.
It's Good But Not Rome... October 23, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The story of the beginnings of Khan and his reign are good, make no mistake...but they lack the mesmerizing factor of Iggluden's earlier works on ROME...the Emporer Series...I feel there was much more for him to write on that subject, after the death of Julius Caesar, and I am disappointed that he chose to drop that vein and move to something so unlike it.
Please...give us more of the Roman sage
Genevieve
My First Historic Fiction Read October 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I usually stick to hard science fiction (not Star Trekkie stuff) and the lady at the book store checkout really pushed this one on me. That being the case, I was very skeptical about diving into it and held it for later. Looking back on it, my normal genre disappointed me while this one swept me off my feet!
I did not find the book boring at all. It was an intense ride through a very traumatic childhood, to say the least. I liked the pace and the author sprinkled descriptiveness here and there to flavor it up without turning it into boring mush.
I understood from the beginning that this was FICTION and that things were changed to add flow, continuity, and drama. That being said, I would not go into trivializing over "adjusted" timelines, facts, and faces. Why waste your time and get all huffy for no reason?
I gave it four stars due to some of the written scenes being overly gory, but I suppose lots of stuff happened that would make anyone cringe. But I was very entertained and that is the most important thing.
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