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Post by emerald on Sept 22, 2021 11:49:41 GMT -5
Check it out.... www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/if-you-love-heroic-fantasy-a-la-george-rr-martin-youll-love-the-last-viking/2021/09/21/81b44a42-1a2b-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.htmlI gotta love Dirda, a Pulitzer Prize winning critic as widely read as anybody writing today, who has stood up for Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and REH. Here he gets way into a fierce narrative history of Harald Hardrada by Don Hollway. And he closes with these lines, "If you love Frans Bengtsson’s picaresque masterpiece, “The Long Ships,” Robert Graves’s intrigue-suffused “I, Claudius,” or heroic fantasy in the mold of Robert E. Howard, George R.R. Martin and Howard Andrew Jones, you owe it to yourself to pick up “The Last Viking.” It’s that exciting, that good." I'm intrigued.
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Post by Von K on Sept 22, 2021 14:12:01 GMT -5
Thanks Emerald. Great to see Howard Andrew Jones being mentioned alongside Martin and REH. Enjoyed Dirda's review. Both Holloway's The Last Viking and Shippey's Laughing Shall I Die look like worthy reads.
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