Thread: Damn, that's some faint praise
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Old 05-20-2022, 03:50 PM   #9
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Even aside from the arrant sexism, it’s such a tin-eared choice. The gulf between writing history and writing historical fiction is vast; Herodotus or Thucydides or Carlyle might be great; Georgette Heyer or John Jakes, not so much.
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