Lionheart by Ben Kane. The first in a trilogy of novels about King Richard who fought the French in Aquitane and then went on a crusade to The Holy Land to fight Saladin for Jerusalem. I've read all his novels and this is the first time he's written about something not to do with The Romans and it's a bloody good read so far.
Luckily only discovered the series a couple of months ago so the wait won't be agonizing for me! Heard part 3 is coming this summer with a bit of luck.
There's a few interviews on YT by this geezer giving you some good incite. Why wasn't we taught at school American Corporations financed the Germans? It just doesn't make sense. Antony C Sutton The Best Enemies Money Can Buy (Very good) Wallstreet And The Rise Of Hitler (Very good) America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones. (Very good) Guess who armed and transferred western technology to Russia?
Finished the three Tales of Dunk and Egg novella's from GRRM. Very enjoyable and expand on the world building and lore of GoT. Would definitely recommend them to anyone who enjoys the show and novels. Gonna start Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club later. Heard good things about it.
I genuinely found them to be better than the actual main books. On another note, David Mitchell has actually finally written a history book - Unruly. Definitely getting it ASAP.
Halfway through the short story 'The fall of the house of usher', before I watch Flanagan's TV adaption. Poe is rather brilliant. I can't belive I have kept myself away from his works till now.
So did i all 31 of them and i never get bored of reading them with Legend his first novel being my favourite.
Piranesi - "Fantasy" novel by Susannah Clarke. One of the best books I've read for years (I get through 2 or 3 a month). Whilst failing to match, same feeling or depth as Life of Pi or Gabriel Garcia Marquez at his best. Well written and easy flowing read if you ignore the chapter titles. "..The novel is set in a parallel universe made up of an infinite number of halls and vestibules, which triggers a gradual loss of memory and identity in newcomers. The story is told through the research notes of the eponymous narrator, who reconstructs the story of his own arrival as he explores this world. Piranesi won the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction..."
Piranesi sounds excellent. Will definitely check it out. In a similar vein, I just finished Circe by Madeline Miller. Very good take a relatively minor character from Greek classics. I loved it.
found myself getting into the halloween spirit and started my first dean koontz book, The Taking. i do enjoy a bit of alien invasion fiction--movies, games, etc--especially when it's less Independence Day and more like Signs. (games like They Are Here and the Greyhill Incident are right up my alley, for instance). back to the book, though. so far so good, though having never read anything by koontz before, i've been a little annoyed by his writing, but mostly because it feels like he uses a thesaurus for nearly every word in a sentence, landing on the biggest one he can find. again, it's been good so far, though, and his genre-specific elements regarding what an invasion would be like stand out a bit. update: what a disappointing, anti-climactic ending. i wasn't expecting some sort of explosion-laden battle or anything, but there was no real build-up or tension. just over and then a few pages to briefly describe the aftermath.
finally got around to reading Go Set a Watchman, the sequel to to Kill a mockingbird finding it a bit harder to read than the first book, but i did that one for GCSE so maybe i took more interest in it then
Firefly: the magnificent nine. The second book of eight in a series based on the firefly TV show. The first book in the series, big damn hero, was enough to scratch the itch, but you definitely lose something in translation compared to watching the show. So far each book basically reads like an episode of the TV show; unique little plot that offers a glimpse of a character's back story and fleshes them out a bit more. Sort of makes it a second season of the show in a way. Alas, what could have been.
