[Steppes] help needed...kind of OT

[Russell and Erika Kinder]

Linet,

It's not fiction, but I really like Morris Bishop's The Middle Ages. He 
makes history very interesting.

Some really great historical fiction is from Raphael Sabatini. 
Scaramouche is amazing. Also, Bardely's the Magnificent, Captain Blood, 
The Seahawk, and The Black Swan. This is obviously in the swashbuckling 
category. Really, all the Sabatini stuff is great fun.

A book I picked up more recently is Deus Lo Volt! by Evan S. Connell. 
I've not read anything else by him, but this one is phenomenal. 
Extremely good book about the 3rd Crusade.

Here's the book that pulled me away from LOTR as a teen: Sir Thomas 
Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. More readable than you might think (much 
more). Anyway, it was finished in 1469, so it definitely puts one in 
the period mindset. The version I have has the spelling modernized, but 
the grammar left alone. Look for the one with illustrations by Aubrey 
Beardsley. After I'd read Malory, I picked up almost every Arthurian 
novel I could find.

Look for The Death and Life of Miguel de Cervantes bye Stephen Marlowe.

Finally, I've been impressed most recently by Sharon Kay Penman. The 
Sunne in Splendour covers the War of the Roses, and Falls the Shadow 
covers Simon de Montfort.

Anyway, those are some of the books on our shelves.

HL Guillaume de Troyes


On Sunday, February 27, 2005, at 08:54  PM, Susan Hill wrote:

> I am trying to find something for my son's birthday in the lines of 
> something to read. He will be 15 on Tuesday but reads at a high level. 
> He loves the Lord of the Rings, but I would like to find something a 
> bit more challenging for him along the historical fiction line. Most 
> of the historical fiction I am aware of is written by women so has a 
> slant that is perhaps a bit less masculine than he would enjoy. 
> Explicit sex scenes are to be avoided if possible, but if done 
> tastefully and in appropriate context, his mother wouldnt mind so 
> much. Has anyone got any ideas? He has been reading LOTR over and over 
> for three years now and I'd really like to get him onto something > else.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Linet
>
>
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