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What have you read in 2009? Post your list here and update it as you go along! (One thread per member, please.)
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Post by Kveto from Prague » Tue September 1st, 2009, 7:58 am

booke of days by steven rivelle

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Tue September 22nd, 2009, 7:33 pm

"the bad popes" by e r chamberlin (re-read)

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Post by SonjaMarie » Tue September 22nd, 2009, 8:25 pm

[quote=""keny from prague""]"the bad popes" by e r chamberlin (re-read)[/quote]

I read that, it's a good and interesting book.

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Fri October 9th, 2009, 7:29 am

[quote=""SonjaMarie""]I read that, it's a good and interesting book.

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yeah, should be lots of potential for fiction in there.

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Fri October 9th, 2009, 7:30 am

"Jungle girl" by e r burroughs

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Post by annis » Fri October 9th, 2009, 5:44 pm

Keny, have you read Richard Condon's book "A Trembling Upon Rome"? It's a novel about the Great Schism, fairly satirical in tone, (the Papacy as Mafia) but you might find it interesting.
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Papal history without pomp, circumstance, or spirituality--as chilly novelist Condon (Prizzi's Honor, etc.) details the largely factual 1390-1415 story of Baldassare Cossa, a soldier/pimp/entrepreneur who became mercenary Pope John XXIII. . . and the fatalistic, much-betrayed pawn of rising banker Cosimo di Medici. The off-and-on narrator here is Franco Ellera, Jewish slave to the Cossas, a pirate family of Naples.

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Fri October 9th, 2009, 6:24 pm

[quote=""annis""]Keny, have you read Richard Condon's book "A Trembling Upon Rome"? It's a novel about the Great Schism, fairly satirical in tone, (the Papacy as Mafia) but you might find it interesting.
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Papal history without pomp, circumstance, or spirituality--as chilly novelist Condon (Prizzi's Honor, etc.) details the largely factual 1390-1415 story of Baldassare Cossa, a soldier/pimp/entrepreneur who became mercenary Pope John XXIII. . . and the fatalistic, much-betrayed pawn of rising banker Cosimo di Medici. The off-and-on narrator here is Franco Ellera, Jewish slave to the Cossas, a pirate family of Naples.[/quote]

hey, Annis. yes, i read that one several years ago and liked it (other than the poor portrayal of Jan Hus). My favourite part was when he tried to make the Jewish Ellera a bishop and couldnt understand why it wasnt possible.

I found it make Cossa a sympathetic character, which was nice.

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Fri November 6th, 2009, 10:00 pm

"the golden slave" by poul anderson

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Post by Kveto from Prague » Tue November 10th, 2009, 10:09 am

"treasures of tartary" robert e howard

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Post by annis » Tue November 10th, 2009, 6:56 pm

What did you make of "Golden Slave", Keny? I'm not convinced that it's one of Poul Anderson's better efforts, but it's certainly an interesting hypothesis for the origin of the Norse æsir gods.

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