Did I get filtered or is this one weak?
>nyt bestsellertime for kino
For me, it's The King Must Die
I read The Charioteer because it had a statue like this on the cover and it was gay shit
>>24713658This is the only Renault I've read and it was pretty good, especially the phrase "her guilt-tipped breasts" or something like that. Any recs for what to read from her next?
>>24713658The King Must Die had a lot of 1970s-era false assumptions about the order of events between Thera and the fall of the Minoans. (Although that they fell to Greeks still holds up.)It was also fedora about Christians; there's a clear reference to current-year fundamentalist notions of Biblical society in there when someone from south Canaan shows up and preaches against the bull worship.The book is kind of shit overall. "Bull From The Sea" doesn't have these problems.
>>24714836Wasn't it gilt-tipped? Like, they were covered in gold?
>>24714869Based on this extremely specific criticism I take it the weird matriarchal orgies are historically accurate?
>>24714869>when someone from south Canaan shows up and preaches against the bull worship. He charges the bull with a knife and dies, which is hilarious. How can you be mad about that?
Is her Alexander trilogy good? I’ve been considering reading it because I’m on a historical fiction set in antiquity kick, but I’m worried it’ll just be purely about Alexander getting dicked down. I’m okay with a little gay shit, but I’m not interested in a full blown gay romance trilogy.
>>24716296Renault's men are poon hounds and hilariously chauvinistic, no worries
