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Corkobo, have you read and do you like Mary Renault? She writes about the time/place you seem to favor. Sadly I don't think they are available in ebook.
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I have read only one book, "The Last of the Wine". I liked it a lot even though the tone and the "spirit" of the story are a bit more sad, more melancholy than what I usually enjoy (I don't know the right words to express this, I guess I would call her book thoughtful and pensive). Then again, the main events of the time the book is set in are not conducive to heroic optimism. Thank you for reminding me of this, I will look for her other other books now. |
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I'm currently reading Sharon Kay Penman's 'When Christ and the Saints Slept'. Follows the tumultuous times of life in England after Henry I with Stephen and Maude fighting over the throne. A pretty good read. There are more in the series after this one that I'll be exploring.
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It's a Viking adventure trilogy. I have Blood Eye (first book in the Raven trilogy) in paperback which I've read about a year ago. It's more of a historical action adventure series. I really enjoyed it. The books starts off slow but don't be discouraged by that when you start reading, because the story gets really good after a couple of chapters. It contains explicit violence but despite that a real page turner. I'll be getting Sons of Thunder (book two) soon |
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Irving Stone wrote several biographical novels like Lust for Life, about Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy, about Michelangelo. Hopefully ebook versions will be published.
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Thanks for this recommendation (to both of you). I have recently finished the first installment and liked it very much (after I got into it). The complexity of the story reminded me of Dumas a little bit. The tone is completely different, there are some really funny scenes in there, too.
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Another good historical fiction series I've read is Noah Gordon's The Physician. Follows up with Shaman. I haven't read the third in the series yet, but the first two were very good.
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Nobody mentioned Henryk Sienkiewicz with The Trilogy.
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Another vote for Ken Follett. Pillars of the Earth is one of my all time favorite books, although the sequel World Without End didn't do as much for me.
Currently reading and enjoying very much, his Fall of Giants, which tells about the life prior and during world war one. Plenty of historical talk while still being a fictional story. I believe he had 8 historians to check out facts on the book before it was released - I for one am learning tons about the WWI time period which I almost didn't know anything about before! |
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