ITT comfy historical fiction that will let you forget all the bullshit of everyday life (like a nagging bitch wife) and transport you to another place and time when the life of a man was simpler and filled with wonder and adventure
Two I’ve read that I really enjoyed:>Sinuhe the Egyptian>The Long Ships by Franz BengtssonI have the Assyrian on my list I should really check it out soon.
I really, really, fucking love The Trilogy by Sienkiewicz and translated by Kuniczak. With Fire and Sword along with the Deluge are so good and a must read for anybody who likes historical fiction. The Deluge especially has to be my favorite book of all time, it is so epic in scale and has everything I want out of a story. Pan Zagloba and Kmita have to be some of my favorite fictional characters. However I'm biased because I think winged hussars and cossacks are sick as hell.
>>25215229>nagging bitch wifeSkill issue
Is there anything good set during these time periods?>Alexander's Conquest>Diadochi Wars>Punic Wars>Napoleonic Wars>British Expansion
>>25215584>>The Long Ships by Franz Bengtssonthis was recommended to me, i dont know anything about it i hope it isnt like Bernard Cornwall level>>25215759>Napoleonic warspatrick o'brien books are good>British Expansion kim is a childrens book but its good, the man who would be king. flashman as you put is pretty funny but not read it for years
anyone read The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
>>25216036The Long Ships is widely considered one of the greatest works of historical fiction. It reads like a Norse saga modernized for entertainment purposes. I’ve never read Bernard Cromwell so I don’t really know what you mean by that…if you’re referring to the author’s religious opinion, The Long Ships doesn’t really lean either way. The main character is a Viking that converts to Christianity about halfway through the novel, but it isn’t portrayed as a good or bad thing, he just believed it was the right course of action for him.
>>25216214I meant by Bernard Cornwall its almost like YA fiction, i thought Patrick O'brians master and commander books were going to be like that but actually theyre fantastic and heavy into the naval mechanics as it were, as well as good stories.i'll have to check it out
I thought Burr by Gore Vidal was a fascinating portrait of the revolutionary period, and it led me to read the first book of Daniel Boorstin's The Americans trilogy. I'm hoping I can find a physical copy of the other two eventually.
>>25215229>eduard limonov blackmails alexander dugin into founding a newspaper and party with him>gets betrayed>there's a mesoptamian demon who makes a blood pact with them for glory, unbenkownst to them.
>>25215229salammbo by flaubert
>>25215229> first encounters the great love of his life, his cousin Esharhamat. Both Tiglath and Esarhaddon dream of becoming soldiersi dont get it, is it gay or not? google is too ambiguous
>>25217371Esharhamat is a woman, Esarhaddon is Tiglath's brother from different mother. Basically the King of Assyria has a giant harem called House of Women and he keeps impregnating women who live there so everyone in the book is kinda related. Only gay part is the greek slave who gets rich and immediately starts fucking a 10 year old boy.
>>25217397thank you, I'm not that great with ancient assyrian names>Only gay part is the greek slave who gets rich and immediately starts fucking a 10 year old boy.in greece they call that socialism
>>25215229I've been on a ancient history spree over the last year, and two great authors are Mary Renault and Steven Pressfield. Interestingly Pressfield took on many of the same narratives Renault did before him, e.g. both have an Alexander series, books on the Peloponnesian war, books about Theseus... To recommend one book of each: The Last of the Wine by Renault, and Gates of Fire by Pressfield.Creation by Gore Vidal is also pretty neat.
anyone know any good historical fiction involving witches/witchcraft?
>>25215229That the Galls belonged to the white race in the original part of their essence is beyond doubt. Among them, the warriors were solidly built, with vigorous limbs and a gigantic stature (1), with blue or gray eyes and blond or red hair. They were men of turbulent passions; their extreme greed and love of luxury readily led them to take up arms. They possessed a quick and easy understanding, a naturally keen mind, an insatiable curiosity, great resilience in the face of adversity, and, to top it all off, a formidable fickleness of temper, the result of an organic inability to respect or love anything for long (2).Here we find that severely feudal organization and the incomplete power of an elected chief, as practiced by the early Hindus, the Iranians, the Homeric Greeks, and the Chinese of the most ancient period. The inconsistency of authority and the warrior's touchy pride often paralyze the actions of the law's representative. In the government of the Gauls, as in that of other peoples descended from the same stock, there are no vestiges of that senseless despotism of a bronze or stone table, strong in the abstraction it represents—an aberration so familiar to Semitic republics.Arthur de Gobineau, the Galls
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>>25217192Yo, send me a copy of your book.
