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Cheers ... Merry Xmas .... book tokens from the girlfriend ... she never knows which books to buy. :D

Yes, Bernard Cornwell's Warlord chronicles - Winter King, Enemy of God & Excalibur are worth a look. They're written with authenticity most definitely in mind rather than the sword & sorcery stuff of legends, that is to say rather than being ''King Arthur'' they're more a story of a possible...

Have you tried Valerio Massimo Manfredi ? I've not read any of his work yet but The Last Legion is waiting on my bookshelf - he's written historical fiction on both Roman & Greek times.

Aha ... thanks Darren,

Hmmm ??? .... as you say it's not on the big read website. All I could find was the listing of no's 1 - 5 & 22 - 200. Anyone got any ideas ?

Hi JD, nice to see another reply. Obviously I don't share your opinion but I wouldn't necessarily describe it as bad. As a film it's watchable enough .... ships, cannons, fighting, wildlife, bit of a twist at the end. For me it didn't reflect O'Brian but I do concede there have been several...

Oh yes, so it was !! Yes phil ... absolutely although this is from http://www.bernardcornwell.net/ ... ''I sent Nathaniel Starbuck on an extended vacation. I fear he is still enjoying that. So will there be more Starbuck books? I hope so, but I don't really know when'' Personally...

5 of the best for me, today anyway. No order Starbuck series ..... Bernard Cornwell Magician series ... Raymond E Feist Robinson Crusoe .... RLS Red Storm Rising .... Clancy Aubrey / Maturin series .... Patrick O'Brian Would have made 6 if I said 'something by Cussler', just can't...

Never liked horror movies myself so always thought the same would apply to King's books but read Desperation a couple of months ago and I'd really recomend it (though obviously I can't say if it gives a good general feel for his work). The Gunslinger is now on my bookshelf and I've an inkling...

Only one sticks in my memory - Cider With Rosie. About the only thing I remember of it is that I'd much rather have been reading Clive Cussler.

Oh dear ... what have they done ??? Without giving anything away the main plot is taken from Far Side Of The World with incidental scenes taken from various other books (the complete series is of 20 books). But given the largely unnecessary ommisions & departures from the plot, an...

Oh Yes !! ... Stops the bookmark falling out

Hi again, thanks. - Yes phil i guess Adventure would describe it fairly well, but I think you'd find O'Brian quite different to the Hornblower & Sharpe, they are much more a serious and thorough portrayal of life in the early 19th C Royal Navy rather than an adventure story. But as I've a...

I got fed up losing bookmarks so started just using the first thing that came to hand - train ticket, phone bill etc but i was forever losing those as well and having to re-read to find my place again. Then i had a brainstorm one day and put an elastic band around the book ... bingo !! ... no...

Anyone both seen and read it ? I'm a big fan of O'Brian and have mixed thoughts about going to see it. The first thing that strikes me from the advertising is the use of 2 book titles (the 1st & 10th books in the series) in the film title. How faithful to O'Brian's exacting historic...

Hello to you all, just sort of stumbled across this site a couple of days ago and though I've not had time to go through it all by a long shot, there certainly is lots of good stuff on here. My personal reading preferences are Cornwell's Sharpe etc, O'Brians' Aubrey & Maturin - just...