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I have found the holy grail...

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Sir William:
Yea, his father stole it from mine and when I went to go get it well...lets just say overall- that one didn't turn out well at all.  For me.  LOL ;)

Great set of books, no?  You've read Azincourt yet?

Sir Patrick:
Oh yeah!  Cornwell's my favorite.  I've read all his stuff (except his modern-day spy thrillers).

Sir William:
I've read a few of the Sharpe's Regiment series years ago and didn't catch on that it was the same author til I was halfway through Vagabond.  I never actually knew who wrote the Sharpe's books but once I saw the listing (was flipping thru his biblio) it was like a lightbulb.

He's one of my favorite authors for medieval historical fiction, Chadwick is another.  Follett's Pillars of the Earth and World Without End have to be two of the finest medieval HF works I've ever read.

Sir Patrick:
Follett is awesome.  I've been wanting the check out Chadwick based on one of your earlier postings.

Sir William:
I'm currently re-reading 'For the Kings Favor' (also published as 'The Time of Singing' abroad), about Roger Bigod II, Earl of Norfolk.  His life's story has a lot of parallels to the Marshal's, in fact, they were contemporaries- and the Marshal does appear in the book a few times. 

I just read her duology on the Marshal and I have to say she takes the dry factual entries of the likes of Crouch among others and makes it palatable for just about anyone with an interest in things medieval.  I read both books at least three times so far.  Good reading...I imagine I'll make it through all of her books at some point, or a good number of them at least.

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