Opinion about the Iron Pillar novel I have just finished reading the Taylor Caldwell's book yesterday. I know this has very good reviews at Goodreads.com, but honestly, I did not found it being so good as people say, I love historical novels, but this one is very slow, sometimes boring. Being a classic, I expected something more flowing, vibrant and with more quotes from Cicero, because it's a book about Cicero's life, the Roman empire's laws and his relationship with Julius Caesar, Pompey and Crassus. It seems like the author preferred to give more space and effort to trivial things like the description of some random people, instead, for example, of talking about how the Spartacus rebellion impacted Rome and its laws at the time, the wars which Julius Caesar won and his ascension, the Crassus' dead, the division and eventual fall of the triumvirate. I think all of this had affected the roman life, the politics and the evolution of history in great manner, but until I can see, this was not fully addressed by the author, so at the end, I gave it 3 star of 5.