[ebooktalk] Re: BOUDICA: DREAMING THE EAGLE
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:17:15 +0100
I've been meaning to ask for a while whether anyone else had read these books
Steve. I did so some years ago and really loved them. I found that having
been taken into her world I went along with how things were, including the
dreamers. After all, as you say, none of us know much about the Celtic society
of Briton in those days.
On 15 Oct 2013, at 12:19, Steven Bingham wrote:
> HI again
>
> I have just finished this Manda Scott historical novel. I am not sure if
> historical is quite the right term. Yes, the history of the Claudian invasion
> is correct but as most of the story is told from the native British point of
> view there are no known facts to go on. Scott has imagined a very interesting
> society although I admit to having doubts about the ‘dreamers’ and their
> supposed powers. This aspect almost brings the book into the realm of
> phantasy literature.
>
> I enjoyed the book and will certainly be reading Dreaming the Hound and
> Dreaming the Bull. They are all very long books. The only facts known about
> boudica are those related by Taticus (excuse the spelling) about the revolt
> in 60 AD. Those are rather sketchy and hardly sufficient to write nearly
> 2,000 pages of biography around.
>
> Steve
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