Ribh's D'Coopage

[drstratton]

Have you tried Helen Hollick. She did an Arthurian triology. She did a lot of research & I enjoyed them. Just don't mention Stephen Lawhead to me. He should never have been allowed to publish such drivel!!!!

I've not heard of either of them...I will have to find her trilogy & stay away from Mr Unmentionable!

 

[Ribh]

I'm not familiar with either of them, but I will definitely check them out too! Thank you!

If you read either of them, let me know what you think. I would be interested...

 

[drstratton]

Seems Jaffar wasn't sneezing as much this evening, thank God, and BLU gets a bath tomorrow.

That's good news!

 

[drstratton]

I will be hunting Easter eggs first thing in the morning. (They changed their nests to somewhere else) It's only two acres to search!

I'm so glad that my free range pen is only 110x50'! We have 5 acres & we used to let our Banty's roam, I never knew when a mama & her babies would pop up! Good luck finding the nests!

 

[Ribh]

I've not heard of either of them...I will have to find her trilogy & stay away from Mr Unmentionable!

Lots of people loved him but he infuriates me. He muddles up his history, his timelines, & he never seemed able to decide if he was medieval Arthur, Pre~Roman, Arthur, or Post~ Roman Arthur. If you are going to reference real people ~ & both Talisien & Anurien were real poets & you can still read some of their poems in translation, then the very least you need to do is get your time periods right & not assume your readership is dumb & has no idea!

 

[drstratton]

Jonathan Moeller.

Thank you!

 

[drstratton]

I didn't enjoy them nearly so much when she went all SciFi on me. I felt the early books were rather good but the later ones bogged down.

I have to agree with that, I loved the earlier books, but I still enjoyed the later books...there's quite a bit of sci-fi in me...I'm also a blend!

 

[drstratton]

If you read either of them, let me know what you think. I would be interested...

I will definitely do that!

 

[Ribh]

I have to agree with that, I loved the earlier books, but I still enjoyed the later books...there's quite a bit of sci-fi in me...I'm also a blend!

I'm not a SciFi blend but you may throw in large dollops of accurate history if you like. I should have done archaeology not literature ~ but then all I ever wanted to dig up was Skara Brae.

 

[drstratton]

Lots of people loved him but he infuriates me. He muddles up his history, his timelines, & he never seemed able to decide if he was medieval Arthur, Pre~Roman, Arthur, or Post~ Roman Arthur. If you are going to reference real people ~ & both Talisien & Anurien were real poets & you can still read some of their poems in translation, then the very least you need to do is get your time periods right & not assume your readership is dumb & has no idea!

I can see where that would be very irritating, for a history buff! I'm one of the less informed! History didn't interest me when I was younger...I enjoy it much more now!