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Lords Of The North (2007)About book:NOOOO!!!!! 6 months wait for the next book. This was GREAT!,Book three in the Saxon Chronicles is the best book by Bernard Cornwell that I have read. I had read his 'Grail Quest Trilogy' before coming to this series, which I thought was a trilogy, but now know could go on much longer (it will be at least 4 books and I certainly hope for more).' I enjoyed this very much, although I wonder just how wise it is to drive suburban streets while listening to graphic descriptions of people hitting each other with sharp swords. Having listened to the previous book in this series, it was very interesting to hear differences in the styles of the two readers - having become used to Tom Sellwood's more restrained style for The Pale Horseman, it took me a little time to get used to Richard Armitage's more vigorous narration for this book (ah, but he has a lovely voice.) Annoyingly, my local library doesn't have the audio version of the last book in this series (read by yet another person), so I shall have to resort to the old fashioned method of reading for myself. The third book in this series of Saxons and Danes is more of the same: A chunk of the life of Uhtred of Bebbanburg, who is not real, bouncing about in the 9th century of the land that is today, and has been for over a thousand years, the united England.
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El or la cuaderno. He encounters people who were real with some frequency, like the future King Alfred the Great, who is for now just King Alfred of Wessex. As he goes about searching for a way to recover the earldom that is his birthright, he is once again caught up in a key part of the plan to ultimately unify England. In this case, up in Northumbria, he tries to rally allies to his banner and rid himself of enemies, serving Alfred wittingly and unwittingly.Uhtred is surrounded as usual by a colorful cast of characters, if not especially deep or dynamic, as he goes to settle these old scores with the likes of Kjartan the Cruel and Sven One-Eye - a man who is known as One-Eye because Uhtred caught him doing something very bad to an earl's daughter years ago and that was the punishment. His task is to take a seemingly-impregnable fortress, which if you think is going to discourage him, you don't know him very well.He is not an especially nice guy, nor are any of the characters of the time, including the pious like Alfred, who, as you might expect, can carry out all kinds of unpleasant stuff as long as he can justify it as being for spreading his chosen religion or punishing some pagan heretic. It's a ruthless world, one that brings to mind Thomas Hobbes from centuries later, discussing why man needs some kind of political community: Because in the state of nature, man is in 'continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, nasty, poor, brutish, and short.' It is all of those things in this lawless English frontier time, not much better for either Saxon or Dane.The series is a fun read - adventures spanning large parts of the known world at the time. I'm sure Cornwell fudges a bit on the history here and there, which he even admits in the postscript to each book, but hell, it was over 1100 years ago, so who's really to say that he's all that wrong anyway?
Cornwell does it again. I keep thinking after reading so many of his books of the same genre I should be feeling guilty like I'm reading Star Trek or romance novels or something.
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But they're just so damn good.Not every one is great, and none of them have lived up to the Warlord trilogy but this series is pretty spectacular and the narrator's voice is perfect for the story. Hearing it is like visiting an old friend. I thought that this would be the last book of Utred because in the middle somewhere he started talking as if he was an old man telling you of his story and that in the end he would end up being in the present day as an old man. But then that went away (which is kinda lame if you think about it. Almost like he forgot to take that part out) and we're left with an afterword that promises more adventure with our favorite Saxon cum Dane.I'm not sure I'll ever get sick of this format of revenge, heroics, gritty, realistic battle sequences, and a slight touch of the possibly mystical all on top of a well researched historical background.