Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
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As seen on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday The bestselling book, now with a new preface by the...
David McK (3425 KP) rated Guards! Guards! Discworld Novel 8 in Books
Jul 15, 2023
Reimagining of famous plays/fairytales? Try any in The Witches series.
Primarily murder whodunnits? The Guards.
Of which this is the first.
So this is the one to introduce the reader to Sam Vimes, Nobby Nobbs, Fred Colon and Carrot Ironfoundersson, as well as featuring a prominent role for The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, and which would lead to perhaps the most-revisited characters in the entire Discworld series - I think Pratchett returned to the Watch a further 7 times, for a total of 8 such novels.
Quick google search: yes, 8 times. Only matched by the Wizards of Unseen University.
Anyway, this is the one that sees a secret society summoning a Dragon in the hopes of installing a puppet ruler to the vacant throne of Ankh-Morpork, before things go awry ...
Nine Lives of William Shakespeare
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Acclaimed as the greatest dramatist of all time, William Shakespeare needs little introduction. Or...
Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era
Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith
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The basis for a major documentary, two leading experts sound an urgent call for the radical...
Sport and National Identities: Globalization and Conflict
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While globalization has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of 'the...
The Iphgenia Quartet
Caroline Bird, Lulu Raczka, Suhayla El-Bushra and Chris Thorpe
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Agamemnon must sacrifice his daughter, Clytemnestra must try to stop him, Iphigenia must accept her...
Global Tarantella: Reinventing Southern Italian Folk Music and Dances
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Tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance, is an international phenomenon--seen...
Mount London: Ascents in the Vertical City
Joe Dunthorne, Bradley Garrett, Sarah Butler and Tom Chivers
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Did you know that an invisible mountain is rising above the streets of the capital - and, at over...
The Image of the Black Prince in Georgian and VI - Negotiating the Late Medieval Past
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During the Georgian and Victorian periods, the fourteenth-century hero Edward the Black Prince...
David McK (3425 KP) rated The Winter King in Books
Sep 4, 2020
These are also novels that - despite being the author's own personal favourites of the (many) novels he has written - I have struggled with, never really getting into them or feeling any connection with the story or character in the same way as I do towards Uhtred of Bebbanburg, or to Richard Sharpe.
I don't know whether that's because these are so different than I was originally expecting (the magic and mysticism of the tales, here, are more to do with superstition and ignorance), or whether because it may be fairer to call these a tale of Derfel, who narrates the story in later life in a monastery and how - here- he first came to the service of Arthur, the King that never was.
Maybe also because of the Dark Ages setting, which - obviously, since so little is known of that period (hence the name Dark Ages!) - means that Cornwell can't really bring history to life like he does in most of his other works?