Book recommendations?
dumbledore11214
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Fri May 9 21:04:40 UTC 2008
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Jayne" <jaynesmith62 at ...>
wrote:
> >Please can I drop in to this discussion?
>
> I would like to recomend a superb book, especially if you love History
> as much as I do
> "King Hereafter" by Dorothy Dunnett (The best historical writer in
> the last hundred years IMHO)
> This is her story of Macbeth and it is fab,
> She has also written 2 fantastic Historical series called The Lymond
> Chronicles and The House of Niccolo.These are based in 14th and
> fifteenth centurys in Europe and Turkey.
>
> Jayne
>
Alla:
Oh Oh The Lymmond Chronicles. I definitely second that recommendation.
I personally find Dunnett's writing style a bit too wordy, but
characters are wonderful.
And Lymmond is another Snape like character in a sense that I like :-)
Thanks Betsy who recommended these books to me originally.
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