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mallamp
Nov 25, 2009

I liked some books by Ken Follett and heard Cornwell was same,so I tried reading the saxon one but it felt like a fantasy book without the autism and I was like gently caress that, why not just go full retard and read about wizards if I'm gonna do this., well I didn't, but didn't continue reading Cornwell either

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mallamp
Nov 25, 2009

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

How can anyone like Ken Follett, though. I mean, poo poo, people complain about fantasy novels being rapey. Pillars of the Earth is the only book I was ever assigned for class that I didn't finish reading; It's like someone took an Edward Rutherford novel and just added a rape scene on every fourth page.

Raping doesn't make other parts less entertaining though, not in fantasy, not in follet. Besides, while I like Pillars of Earth and the sequel a lot, I especially like his newer trilogy which is not rapey, and is 20th Century historical fiction in epic scale, something I haven't seen often. Whereas medieval historical fiction kinda competes against all fantasy novels aswell. If we overlook the fact that fantasy is manchild genre, it's often more entertaining than its realistic cousin

mallamp fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Jan 3, 2016

mallamp
Nov 25, 2009

Arcsquad12 posted:

I was flipping through Netflix and saw that there was a new original series based on The Last Kingdom. Haven't read the book, but has anyone here read it/seen the show? Is it any good?

I haven't read the books so I don't know howe good adaptation it is but I though it was bit worse than Vikings but good if you want to watch something like Vikings

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