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What's your favourite period?

Darren

Darren

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To start off this new area, I'll open up the discussions with a general question.

What's your favourite period for historical fiction?
 
Hmm, I like so many it's hard to choose. I just like being in another time and place, I think.
 
The gilded age, late 19th century. I especially enjoy stories about industrialization, labor unions, not to mention anarchist/socialist movements in large U.S. cities.
 
I'm pretty flexible. Ancient Rome, 16th, 17th, and 18th century England/Europe are probably my favorite time periods. I don't really like there to be "modern conveniences" such as any type of motor vehicle, so anything after say 1900ish is not my cuppa. Usually, as I say nothing is written in stone. :)
 
Periods I like:

Everything.
Ancient civilizations.
Middle Ages.
Age of Exploration.
Renaissance/Elizabethan Age.
Colonial Period/Early America.
Civil War/Reconstruction.
Industrial Age.
Victorian Age.
Gilded Age.
 
Asian all the way!

Ancient China and Ancient Japan are my two favorite areas of study and personal reading.

~Josh
 
I love all historical fiction, but the stuff I really enjoy would have to be ones written in the Middle Ages.

I'm so excited about this new bookshelf - historical fiction is one of my favourite genres! :D
 
SFG75 said:
The gilded age, late 19th century. I especially enjoy stories about industrialization, labor unions, not to mention anarchist/socialist movements in large U.S. cities.
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Me too, the progressive era is my favorite historical time period , so naturally I enjoy fiction set in that era the most.

I also enjoy stories set in the era just following WWII.
 
(Oh, thank heavens. If Moto had started this thread, there's no telling where it might have taken us.) ;)

Ahem.

Elizabethan England, among others.
 
I would say any period, Oriental. I know so little of the other side of the world.
Peder
 
I like anything well-written. I do however prick up the ears on depression era and prohibition. Also reconstruction era.

As for world history, I enjoy Tokugawa period in Japan and Meiji--Showa. Also, India from 1899 through approximately 1950's. I'll just shut up!:D

Oh, I forgot Vietnam era ... my childhood!
 
I am pretty flexible when it comes to historical fiction. I like ancient and modern and certainly the history from other countries as well as the UK.
 
I like many periods in history, and adore historical fiction, but my favorites generally reside in the following times:

Ancient Egypt
Ancient Rome
French Revolution
Civil War/Reconstruction
The Crusades
The Inquisition
Organized Crime in 1920's and 1930's
Pirates in general
 
Historical fiction is such a great genre. I've read little of it yet, maybe 4 - 7 books, so I can't say I have a period preference just yet. I'm really drawn to it though and am buying it like crazy these days. I tend to gravitate toward the medieval and Rennaissance periods (good lord how do you spell that?), but that may be due to my, so far, limited reading list on the topic. Primarily I been confined to western europe but I'd like to expand to the far east and the former USSR. I know next to nothing about those regions of the world.

One book recommendation I'd like to throw out there that I have not seen mentioned on the boards is The Darwin Conspiracy - by John Darton. Read it a couple of months ago and really enjoyed it.
 
Renaissance/Elizabethan. I'm reading a book set in Italy during the high renaissance right now, and I can't put it down!
 
Hiya! Been awhile.

I like the Victorian Age best, perhaps, though I am fond of what I like to think of as the "Agatha Christie" period: 1920's-1940's. But also the Medieval Period and the Ancient world.
 
My favourite period is double physics.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

I don't really read a lot of historical fiction, thinking about it. One of the things that puts me off, particularly in Victoriana, is the way writers feel the need to adopt the language and style of the era. That's just pastiche: we don't need that as we have existing books from the 19th century we can turn to. I'd much rather have something like Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry, which is set in 17th century England at the time of the Civil War, but is utterly modern in style and not ponderous or archaic.
 
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