[Ansteorra] OT: Free Nook Book - The Greatest Knight

[Ysabeau]

Well darn! I just finished reading it and I paid for it.

It is a fairly decent book with nice tidbits of historical accuracy. It is
the story of William Marshall and his rise from a younger son to
someone with a lot of pull in the realm. I think the fighters will enjoy the
fighting scenes. It was an interesting look into the tourney circuit. I
never realized that the "tourney" wasn't just on a field like we do. They
would actually range across the countryside and fighting for a town was
actually fought in a town...at least if the book was accurate.

The writing itself seemed a bit stilted, as if the author was a historian
trying to write a novel which is refreshing because it is usually the other
way around. I don't remember anything jumping out at me as being inaccurate,
just some things that I wanted to look up for more information. The ending
felt kind of rushed, like a lecturer who realized they only 15 minutes left
instead of 30.

I'd give a solid B+ and put it in the same range as The Other Boleyn Girl.

Just my thoughts,
Ysabeau

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Stefan li Rous
<StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>wrote:

> From the Calontir list.
>
> Stefan
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: P J Barber <dolphinlover1988 at GMAIL.COM>
> > Date: February 4, 2011 8:49:38 AM CST
> > To: CALONTIR at listserv.unl.edu
> > Subject: [CALONTIR] OT: Free Nook Book
> > Reply-To: Historical Recreation in the Kingdom of Calontir <
> CALONTIR at listserv.unl.edu>
> >
> > For those of you with Nook ereaders, Barnes and Noble is giving away "The
> Greatest Knight" by Elizabeth Chadwick today.  I have not read the book, but
> the description says "a well researched historical novel."  I already
> downloaded it (it's free!) but do I drop the other 3 books I'm reading and
> read it now, or wait until there is nothing else to do to read it?  Any
> suggestions?
> >
> > Aibhilin
> >
>
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