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Col.Schultz posted:The Wolf Hall trilogy from Hilary Mantel does a good job of this genere. I liked it more than when I tried to read Pillars of the Earth. Wolf Hall is indeed great. I also liked A Place of Greater Safety by Mantel.
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Has anyone read Quo Vadis by Sienkiewicz? I remember hearing good things about it, but am unsure if it was something that actually happened or if my brain is just giving up the ghost.
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anilEhilated posted:It's a good read as long as you remember that his main goal was to make a story of pure virtuous Christians and their morally corrupt oppressors to prop up Polish national pride. That makes his treatment of the historic aspects is a bit selective - don't get me wrong, he clearly did a lot of research, but there was a conscious decision to not show stuff like, say, violence between different Christian sects. Yeah, I'm seeing that, what with (I think) are supposed to be references to the Alexemenos graffiti, and the like. But would you say me picking up on an anti-Semitic reading of Chilon Chilonedes is accurate, or just me being very cynical?
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