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Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:18 PM Original message |
Favorite work of Historical Fiction? |
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southpaw72 (155 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley |
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marigold20 (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 08:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
35. Holy Cow! I though I was the only one. |
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placton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
2. Aubrey Maturin |
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Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Re: humour in A-M series |
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Zero Gravitas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:43 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. "Debauched my Sloth" |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
3. The Leadership Genius of George W. Bush |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
4. shogun &tai pan eom |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
5. The Trinity Broadcast Network and anything out of the Pigmans mouth |
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carolinayellowdog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
6. Kim, hands down |
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Mistress Quickly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
7. the Flashman novels |
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geniph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 06:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
33. If you like George MacDonald Fraser, |
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dae (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 09:55 PM Response to Reply #7 |
39. Hornblower, and Flashman are both great... |
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Gildor Inglorion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
9. "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens |
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Bertha Venation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
10. James Michener |
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livetohike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Michener gets my vote too |
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Mrs. Venation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 05:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
30. Mine, Too, Sweetums |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
11. any of Mary Renault's books about ancient Greek/Macedonian period |
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WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:40 PM Response to Original message |
13. 'Lincoln' by Gore Vidal |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-27-04 12:26 AM Response to Reply #13 |
48. All of Gore Vidal's U.S. history novels: |
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CBHagman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
15. Most recently, "Mr. Timothy" by Louis Bayard |
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Snow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
16. I really like Sherlock Holmes |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
17. Book of Daniel by EL Doctorow |
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dwckabal (854 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
18. Grant Speaks by Everett M. Ehrlich |
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VelmaD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
19. Anything with pirates... |
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SaveElmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
20. The Killer Angels |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
21. just read Quicksilver |
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MasonJar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
22. Gone With the Wind a great classic. I first read it as a child and |
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randr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
23. The Sot-Weed Factor--John Barth |
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Snow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 05:21 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Oh, I'd forgotten that - |
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randr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 08:11 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. Grew up around the Chesapeak |
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SiobhanClancy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
24. The Irish Century series by Morgan Llewellyn |
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The Lone Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
25. A Star Called Henry |
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SiobhanClancy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 05:15 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. That was indeed excellent!(n/t) |
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VOX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
27. Shelby Foote's "Shiloh" |
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Snow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
29. Mark Helprin, "A Soldier in the Great War" |
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Westegg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
31. Yep, "I, Claudius," plus some others: |
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Parrcrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 09:33 PM Response to Reply #31 |
38. Try some of Graves' other works |
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Menshevik (674 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
32. The Winds of War and War and Remembrance |
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Jim__ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-27-04 09:32 AM Response to Reply #32 |
51. I thought "The Winds of War" was great |
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sablescort (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
36. I'd take Michener along with |
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Parrcrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
37. The Name of the Rose |
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WannaJumpMyScooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
40. Amazing, no votes for the Bible... I am impressed, for once. |
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amazona (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 10:35 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. well... |
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amazona (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
41. An Instance of the Fingerpost -- Pears |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-27-04 12:21 AM Response to Reply #41 |
47. An Instance of the Fingerpost--YES! |
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NewHampster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
43. The Persian Boy |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
44. I went to a methodist College |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
45. The Last Full Measure by Jeff M. Shaara |
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Tom Yossarian Joad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-26-04 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
46. Frank Yerby's An Odor of Sanctity |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-27-04 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
49. "At Swim, Two Boys" by Jamie O' Neill |
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kodi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-27-04 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
50. josephine tey's "the daughter of time" about Richard III |
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