What are you currently reading?

[William_Montgomery]

'Arthur' by Giles Kristian


The only problem is, no matter how many books I read about Arthur, no matter how vivid the mental image conjured up by the author is, I can only ever see Graham Chapman.

 

[Falstaff]

I've taken a break from fact-heavy Roman history novels, and been re-reading the True Blood fantasy novels, lighter bedtime reading and makes me laugh.

 

[Pattree]

I think I understand.
I enjoy cosmology and philosophy but I’m not a natural academic and find both subjects heavy going at any informative level. I read chick-lit to ease the pressure on the brain.

 

[grainweevil]

Needed something amusing, so "Diary of a Provincial Lady."

 

[Tengu]

I think I understand.
I enjoy cosmology and philosophy but I’m not a natural academic and find both subjects heavy going at any informative level. I read chick-lit to ease the pressure on the brain.

Haha

I enjoy the hard stuff but to stretch my brain I read chick lit.

 

[Pattree]

Some of it is well written and tells a well constructed story - some of it!

 

[Minotaur]

'Arthur' by Giles Kristian
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The only problem is, no matter how many books I read about Arthur, no matter how vivid the mental image conjured up by the author is, I can only ever see Graham Chapman.

Harry Harrison and Bernard Cornwell books are interesting. I really liked how Cornwell created him and then they ruined it in the TV show along with a lot of other stuff.

 

[Minotaur]

Haha

I enjoy the hard stuff but to stretch my brain I read chick lit.

Knowing it only between me and you, I love me some Nora Roberts and JD Robb.

 

[Bhod]

Holidaying in the sun at the moment so brought some what I call "Chewing gum" for the mind with me for reading around the pool, ie Assassin's Creed Renaissance and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood - Oliver Bowden, also brought something a little more historic with me for a book at bedtime in Patrick Leigh Fermor's Abducting a General : The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete, rather apt since I am currently in Rethymno

 

[oldtimer]

You would like "Ill met by moonlight" by Bill Stanley Moss, Paddy Leigh Fermor's lieutenant. It is the version of the Kreipe operation on which the film of the same name starring Dirk Bogarde was made.

When I was in Crete in 1966 before mass tourism, I met some of the locals who had been with the partisans. The English were welcomed, Germans were not

 

[Bhod]

I'll add it to my reading list, thank you.

 

[Pattree]

'Arthur' by Giles Kristian
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The only problem is, no matter how many books I read about Arthur, no matter how vivid the mental image conjured up by the author is, I can only ever see Graham Chapman.

Just been to a talk by Mark Olly about his version of The Life of Arthur. He refers to himself as an historian but if ever a man deserves a Booker prize for fiction it’s him. We were taken on a tour of North Wales where every rock, pool or mound was given an Arthurian label. Priceless.

 

[Chris]

Just been to a talk by Mark Olly about his version of The Life of Arthur. He refers to himself as an historian but if ever a man deserves a Booker prize for fiction it’s him. We were taken on a tour of North Wales where every rock, pool or mound was given an Arthurian label. Priceless.

How silly. Everyone knows that King Arthur lived in Tintagel. Probably due to Granny Wobbly’s Fudge Pantry.

 

[TeeDee]

How silly. Everyone knows that King Arthur lived in Tintagel. Probably due to Granny Wobbly’s Fudge Pantry.

The Wales thing is probably just a Grand Tour.

Can't take Arthur away from Cornwall.. They'd not feel special without the myth