Lunch at home with Angelique.

Going to bed with Alexander the Great in a while. This version, by Nigel Cawthorne, actually depicts his adventures and conquests as fraught with assassinations, executions, abductions, torturing, and extrajudicial killings. It is amazing--and very sad--that history conveniently forgets everyone who was stepped on, stolen from, suffered, and died, and not only remembers the strategist who caused all of it but also calls him a hero.

I would rather that kings are peacefully left to their own kingdoms rather than have "heroes" wrest everything they have from them.

As a matter of fact the only pleasantly titillating passages in this book are those that deal with sexual exploits.