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Post by Dallandra on Oct 7, 2003 9:54:20 GMT 2
Which is your favourite historical novel?
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Post by snake0024 on Oct 7, 2003 21:45:51 GMT 2
I liked Aztec and Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings
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Post by Beldaran on Oct 8, 2003 9:03:56 GMT 2
might be , "The Other Boleyn Girl", the story of Ann Boleyn, told through her sister Mary's eyes written by Philippa Gregory
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Post by Silver on Oct 8, 2003 10:46:33 GMT 2
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Great book I loved it
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Post by snake0024 on Oct 10, 2003 3:08:30 GMT 2
I was looking through some of the books which I have, and I found the Other Boleyn Girl, so I might start reading it soon
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Post by Dominus on Oct 25, 2003 9:45:22 GMT 2
D-Day, can't remember who it's by.
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Za'Jiel
Hatchling
Life in the Shadows
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Post by Za'Jiel on Nov 2, 2003 10:26:14 GMT 2
Shogun by James Clawell
Great book if you want to know more about the Japanese Culture before the Meji Era. Altough most of the story is quite clearly 100% fiction, the setting is authentic.
There has also been made a great mini series of the book. 10 parts each 50 minutes long. They were released on dvd some time ago. If you do see it, buy it as long as you like storybased movies.
Bleh posted with wrong login.... Shadow Wolf.
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Post by Eldanuumea on Jan 1, 2004 21:51:03 GMT 2
I want to recommend a novelist who does historical novels centered around the exploits of a vampire.....the Comte Saint-Germaine.
Her name is Chelsae Quinn Yarbro, and her books are excellent. Her vampire moves across the millenia, from era to era, and the way she weaves historical detail into the stories is fascinating.
Her first one is Hotel Transylvania, and it is a bit more like a "typical" horror novel, though still very attentive to accurate historical setting. I've followed Sainte-Germaine from ancient Egypt to Rome to Byzantium, to northern Europe in the Middle Ages, to Merovingian rance....across to the Orient, to India and China.....to Peru, and revolutionary France. Lately her novels are set in pre WW II Germany and Spain, and it is fascinating to watch the National Socialists rise to power while following the vampire's exploits.
I didn't mean to be so longwinded, but I am truly excited about this writer, and few seem to know of her.
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Post by Fooler on Jan 24, 2004 3:33:48 GMT 2
Colleen McCullough - The First Man in Rome series
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Post by snake0024 on Jan 26, 2004 0:06:21 GMT 2
Welcome Fooler  Now if the other Fools were to join here we could discuss how to proceed with AFD without having to worry about the mods reading our PTs |
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Post by Fooler on Jan 28, 2004 8:55:06 GMT 2
I have to echo Nom - how the hell is there a board where your a mod???  |
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Post by Silver on Jan 28, 2004 9:33:23 GMT 2
J.M Auel ~ The Earth's Children... He is a nice mod...doesn't do much harm |
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Post by snake0024 on Jan 29, 2004 14:47:00 GMT 2
They needed another mod, so there was a lottery to see who got the position, and as you can see I won it  ;D |
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Post by Sylenay on Jan 30, 2004 11:28:24 GMT 2
At the moment I'd have to say Outlander novels though I love Stephen Lawhead's Patrick and a book called Spartan by VMM (his name was long and that's all I remember) oh yeah and Mary Stewart's Merlin series |
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Post by Silver on Jan 30, 2004 11:45:24 GMT 2
The Outlander books are really good, you get a nice fealing about how it might be if you could go back in time.
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