[ebooktalk] Re: BOUDICA: DREAMING THE EAGLE
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:26:27 +0100
No they're definitely not fantassy, more kind of reconstructed historical
fiction. Boudicca is a very empowered woman who leads her people well.
On 15 Oct 2013, at 19:36, Shell wrote:
> It sounds like an interesting series. I have looked at them before, but had
> thought they were more fantasy books, which I'm not keen on. I might give
> the first one a try and see.
> Shell.
>
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> From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 7:17 PM
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: BOUDICA: DREAMING THE EAGLE
>
> > 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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