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Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
maybe this has been posted already? I truly enjoyed reading all of these series. his take on the Grail and Arthur were both amazing, and then the Saxon series was probably the best.

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Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
For the GBS poster arrived in the Book Barn.

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Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
part of the fun is derfel's progression through the series while he's being a Christian narrator writing the books with the mouse lord checking in him. He starts out all pious and at the end is touching his hammer and forgetting to capitalize god and then goes to die as old man hoping to hold his sword.

these books are great but cornwell seems to reuse the exact same phrases to end chapters

"For the Saxons had arrived" blah blah

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Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
same thing with the grail quest books but there he was focused on how strong archers were and "then the arrows flew" blah blah

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Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
How he closed the grail quest was perfect though, that was probably the best ending to any Grail search story that could exist

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Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum

let it mellow posted:

guys I think Uhtred might take bebbanburg (sp?) in the next book

I was right and it owned think the grail series was actually his best. Thomas of hookton owned

let it mellow fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Feb 20, 2017

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Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum

Unctuous Cretin posted:

Maybe he's a descendent of Derfel.


More likely, he saw an awesome name while doing his research and it stuck with him, leading to looking more into it.

actually he's a descendant of uhtred if you believe him

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