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Originally Posted by spear
As a curator, I obviously think most of his stuff is hugely off base. It both tickles me and saddens me at the same time that people get so worked up his stuff. But then again I refuse to see "historicaly" based movies because I will end up shouting at the screen stuff like: "that type of weapon didn't exist yet, and couldn't they have hidden the zippers better?"
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Have you ever read
River God by Wilbur Smith?
Some questions asked about that book on fora are like this:
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I recently read Wilbur Smith's book River God. He's apparently a fiction writer, although he claims that this book was based on the scrolls of Taita her slave. These scrolls were allegedly found in her tomb in January of 1988 by Dr. Duraid ibn al Simma of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities. <snip>
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I've been dying to know how much of the book is really true since I read it. Thanks!
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He writes brilliantly (at least, I think so) and he finishes it with a reference to above mentioned.
For me, if a writer writes something about a historic event and people half-believe (or completely believe) what that author has written, even if it's not true, I think that author has done well in that respect.