Any of you ever read the Warlord series by Bernard Cornwell?

Radagast · 03-24-2002, 04:26 AM

The Winter King, Enemy of God and Excalibur: the Novels of Arthur?

I loved them; they capture the period so well. What did anyone else think?

Radagast · 03-27-2002, 11:58 AM

None of you?

Wayfarer · 03-28-2002, 10:28 PM

I've read them.

Derfel is one of my favorite characters. Very cool.

But I did think that some of it was gratuitously coarse.

Radagast · 03-29-2002, 09:23 AM

Perhaps, but it served a purpose. The realism is incredible and the 'coarseness' was part of that.

The Grim Squeaker · 04-07-2002, 11:11 AM

I love those books! they rock! they were a bit gory though!

TwirlingString · 04-15-2002, 09:01 PM

What;s the warlord, I've never heard of them

osszie · 06-27-2002, 12:43 PM

absoutely loved the warlord books............thougt Cornwell gave one of the best interpretations of the merlin i have ever read

Did anyone else think that Derfel..........brilliant as he is.........is Cornwell's interpretation of Sir Bedeviere?

XRogue · 06-27-2002, 05:25 PM

I read them, but I'll have to re read them and get back to you. Good Merlin, tho. That I do remember.

03-24-2002, 04:26 AM	#1
Radagast Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Merry old England Posts: 413	Any of you ever read the Warlord series by Bernard Cornwell? The Winter King, Enemy of God and Excalibur: the Novels of Arthur? I loved them; they capture the period so well. What did anyone else think? __________________ Take up the White Man's burden-- The savage wars of peace-- Fill full the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest (The end for others sought) Watch sloth and heathen folly Bring all your hope to nought. Last edited by Radagast : 08-05-2004 at 11:08 AM.

03-27-2002, 11:58 AM	#2
Radagast Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Merry old England Posts: 413	None of you? __________________ Take up the White Man's burden-- The savage wars of peace-- Fill full the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest (The end for others sought) Watch sloth and heathen folly Bring all your hope to nought. Last edited by Radagast : 08-05-2004 at 11:06 AM.

03-28-2002, 10:28 PM	#3
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	I've read them. Derfel is one of my favorite characters. Very cool. But I did think that some of it was gratuitously coarse. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

03-29-2002, 09:23 AM	#4
Radagast Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Merry old England Posts: 413	Perhaps, but it served a purpose. The realism is incredible and the 'coarseness' was part of that. __________________ Take up the White Man's burden-- The savage wars of peace-- Fill full the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest (The end for others sought) Watch sloth and heathen folly Bring all your hope to nought. Last edited by Radagast : 08-05-2004 at 11:09 AM.

04-15-2002, 09:01 PM	#6
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	What;s the warlord, I've never heard of them __________________ "The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!”

04-07-2002, 11:11 AM	#5
The Grim Squeaker Banned Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Pixie land Posts: 11	I love those books! they rock! they were a bit gory though!

06-27-2002, 12:43 PM	#7
osszie Elven Warrior Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 409	absoutely loved the warlord books............thougt Cornwell gave one of the best interpretations of the merlin i have ever read Did anyone else think that Derfel..........brilliant as he is.........is Cornwell's interpretation of Sir Bedeviere?

06-27-2002, 05:25 PM	#8
XRogue Elven Warrior Join Date: May 2000 Location: D/FW Texas, USA Posts: 345	I read them, but I'll have to re read them and get back to you. Good Merlin, tho. That I do remember. __________________ Farewell wherever you fare, till your Eyries recieve you at the journey's end.

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