Know any good ones?
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Sword With No Sorcery Novels
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Posts: 4890 01/30/09 11:07:33 Landlord |
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KentGowran.thebigadios |
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Posts: 2074 01/30/09 12:59:35 Fat Bastard |
Maybe the Harold Lamb Cossack novels?
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 01/30/09 13:01:40 Landlord |
I've seen those around. Good? Any Viking stuff you know of?
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KentGowran.thebigadios |
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Posts: 2074 01/30/09 13:05:48 Fat Bastard |
It's been awhile, but I really enjoyed the Lamb novels. Good adventure stuff. Vikings... Well, there's that one Howard novel, that was good.
Can't think of any others off-hand. I think that Cornwall/Cornwell (???) guy wrote some.
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 01/30/09 13:06:27 Landlord |
Howard? Which one? Ama-somethign?
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KentGowran.thebigadios |
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Posts: 2074 01/30/09 13:11:34 Fat Bastard |
I think it was a three word title, but don't recall. I don't think it's in print. And I do believe it was a full-length novel. Shrews would know
the title, I bet.
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Sean A M Lewis |
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Posts: 28 01/30/09 14:42:39 |
Not medieval, but have you read Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield? It is based around the battle of Thermopylae and
serves as a good counterpoint to 300.
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 01/30/09 14:49:27 Landlord |
No, I have not. Thanks.
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 01/30/09 14:52:08 Landlord |
Doesn't have to be medieval. Anytime before the invention of gunpowder. :)
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 01/30/09 15:02:00 Landlord |
Basically stuff where the protag has only his wits and a piece of steel.
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Sean A M Lewis |
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Posts: 28 01/30/09 15:13:21 |
That Joe Abercrombie trilogy has a good amount of buzz surrounding it. Have you checked that out yet? I don't think it has too much sorcery, but I could be
mistaken.
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 01/30/09 15:15:44 Landlord |
Sean A M Lewis wrote: I haven't. Thanks, again! |
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 01/30/09 15:27:18 Landlord |
Ha. Check out this Abercrombie review from Amazon:
"This book has one of the most stupid sentence I have read in a book . Jezal say in page 68 "he couldn't afford to be seen walking.. with a fat girl on his arm. I't could ruin his reputation". As a fat girl I thanks mister Abercrombie ,because I not going to buy the other two books , perhaps if a fat girl like me read his books could ruin his reputation . " |
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Golophin |
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Posts: 114 01/30/09 15:41:43 |
Robert Lows Oathsworn series is excellent Norse adventures set in the era when the pagan era was ending they have a excellent "twilight of the gods"
vibe combined with much rapine and plunder very good fun ( for the reader not for the Oathsworn's unfortunate victims). Bernard Cornwells
"Arthur" trilogy is also excellent revisionist entertainment the narrators account of the one and only meeting of the round table is hilarious.
Last Edited By: Golophin 01/30/09 15:44:12.
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 01/30/09 15:54:50 Landlord |
Excellent! Thanks, man.
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Golophin |
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Posts: 114 01/31/09 06:35:17 |
He he i like your humour there Dave and yes after a couple of glasses of temperanillo i did rely on the word Excellent a lot in describing my two
"picks":)
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 01/31/09 09:05:43 Landlord |
Golophin wrote:I knew there was a reason I used that word. 
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Matthew Fryer |
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Posts: 529 01/31/09 20:30:37 Hellforger |
I love the classic Icelandic sagas.
Njal's saga, Laxdaela saga... they're axe-flinging carnage at times, and they're fucking true. Well, they're prose history, which I find the perfect blend. |
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 01/31/09 20:47:42 Landlord |
I looked for these authors at a local Borders. I found the Pressfield, which I expected, but not the rest.
And I found this too, which is what I'm currently reading: 
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Shrews |
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Posts: 144 02/19/09 08:25:39 |
Dave I'm working on the 2nd draft of the best epic of my life lol.
Unsure which REH book kent refers to. The one ALMARIC one is kinda ok...but his only full length novel was HOUR OF THE DRAGON. However, if ya like Vikings, get his CORMAC MAC ART stuff. Good to that last drop. and Dave, I like the FC so much of teh book above i MUSt get it...that in pb? |
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David Wilbanks |
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Posts: 4890 02/19/09 08:26:51 Landlord |
Yes, sir. It is. :)
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