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Originally Posted by ElspethB
Finally! Now if only they can get Mark Rylance back for the concluding part of the BBC miniseries!
issybird, I'm curious to know what didn't you like about Bring up the Bodies. It's been years, but I recall liking them both very much. |
There were, as I recall since as you say it's been years, three things that I didn't care for in
Bring up the Bodies. I'll spoiler the last.
The first is that I was disappointed since it seemed to me that Mantel dumbed down the second book. A lot of people struggled with Cromwell's internal dialogue in the first book and she made it much more obvious when he was thinking as opposed to speaking in the second. But the convoluted aspect was part of my enjoyment of the first, so I resented that change.
Second was unavoidable, but still. There's not much known about Cromwell's early life, so Mantel was able to exercise a lot of artistic license in fleshing out his story. But once we got to the Catherine of Aragon/Anne Boleyn years, not only is it much better documented, I'm quite familiar with it. So there was a lot less discovery and more just watching the events play out.
But, as I said, doesn't mean I won't be around for the wrap-up!