Has anyone read "Deus Lo Volt: A Chronicle of the Crusades" by Evan Connell? I'm working my way through it. It's unlike any novel I've ever read. I think the author was trying to write his own version of a chronicle (as evident in the subtitle). Well, he succeeds in that it reads like a chronicle, but he fails in that it's virtually plagiarism. I was actually reading a non-fiction work that was citing the Gesta Frankorum and thought "wow, that passage sounds very familiar," and then I had realized I had read it last night in the "novel". This author ripped off the Gesta Frankorum chronicle to the point that it was virtually verbatim.
I really wouldn't recommend it to anyone. You would be better off reading a primary source.
