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The Forest Laird - Jack Whyte New book about Scottish patriots
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Posted 30 September 2010 - 12:20 AM
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Posted 02 October 2010 - 01:15 AM
Sad. You're right about his overindulgence in huge tracts of expository text though. I couldn't even get through 'The Eagle' properly, and I have long considered that series one of the very best of all time. To have so much 'blah blah blah' and then all the major stuff happens off-camera at the end, and we still have no idea because it's all third-hand accounts.
Didn't mind the first Templar book, but again the second one stymied me.
Maybe it's all some sort of 'before the legend' type thing like with Ridley Scott's Robin Hood. About as successful in it's execution too, I dare say.
Didn't mind the first Templar book, but again the second one stymied me.
Maybe it's all some sort of 'before the legend' type thing like with Ridley Scott's Robin Hood. About as successful in it's execution too, I dare say.
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"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
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Posted 02 October 2010 - 04:04 AM
Indeed. I think his time is behind us. There is something like 5 years that separate his writing of the The Sorceror: Metamorphosis and Clothar The Frank, and the change is completely visible in his writing between those volumes. It's as if he had some sort of strange epiphany in between and ever since his writing has been subpar. Because the first 6 books of the camulod series are solid, it's only Clothar and Eagle that suffer.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon
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