Stardate 60020.1
Erica is reading 'The Winter King' by Bernard Cornwall. It looks interesting, so I might pick it up at the library. I've read almost all of his 'Richard Sharpe' series (although I have yet to watch the BBC movie that I have), and I really liked them. It's a little ironic that we do a Jeopardy game at work, and the final jeopardy question a week ago was about Aurthur. I didn't get it. The clue had references to a story written in 600 AD, and Monty Python starts in 932 AD, so I over-analyzed and missed. The Battle of Baden Hill is on Barbarian Invasion, and it took place in 399 AD, so I had plenty of information to get it right.
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2 comments:
What is this Bernard Cornwall person and what kind of books does he write?
I have been reading Edgar Rice Burroughs "Barsoom" series. I have really been enjoying it.
Actually, it's Bernard Cornwell, and he writes historical fiction. 'The Last Kingdom' is about a Saxon boy captured by the Danes in the mid ninth century. I'm about halfway through it.
He's written about Arthur, and he has a series on the American Civil war. I haven't read these.
I have read almost all the 'Richard Sharpe' series, about an English soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. The BBC made a series out of the books starring Sean Bean. Sean also played the crazy IRA terrorist opposite Harrison Ford in "Patriot Games", and Boramir in "The Fellowship of the Ring".
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