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I'm reading through The Winter King and I'm quite enjoying it. I like how Derfel presents his accounts to Igraine and then quickly explains how things really happened, but who wants to read boring history bullshit? He's certainly self aware but I still think it was a nice touch.
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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?
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Earwicker posted:I never read the Sharpe books but I did watch a bunch of the tv show with Sean Bean. It's good. But I have a question because the tv show starts out as a somewhat grounded, realistic depiction of the Napoleonic wars but then starts getting into some weird supernatural territory a little bit, a few episodes in. Specifically I remember a bunch of nonsense about some "Aztec gold" and this creepy Aztec warlord who was trying to hypnotize one of Sharpe's girlfriends by meowing at her. It was a weird scene. That episode has nothing at all to do with the novel Sharpe's Gold, and is pretty easily the worst episode of the entire series. It is just so ridiculous and stupid. Thankfully it's the only episode that's like that, and while there are a few other TV series only episodes not based off of books, they're still pretty good.
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Juaguocio posted:It's especially bizarre because Sharpe's Gold is a good story that could have easily been adapted for TV. Sharpe's Rifles was specifically written by Cornwell to provide an introductory episode for the television series before throwing the audience into Talavera and Badajoz. So yes, it does do a good introductoin.
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Cornwell is in a strange spot where his novels are all extensively researched and authentic while remaining fun popcorn reads.
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