Anyone recommend any authors or books. My favorite is Bernard Cornwell.

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Read Dodger by Terry Pratchett

I've never read any historical fiction really. Half of today's textbooks could be considered to be though.

A lot of news could be considered historical fiction as well. You can probably add almost every political speech to the list too.

Steven E. Ambrose. His books are all very well written. I have read several of his books.

turns out, reviving this thread was totally worth it. has anyone read tree of smoke by denis johnson? it bout nam. i think it involved a lot more acid than i thought it did. that war f*cked people up. coming home staring at insane asylums because you didn't want to come home in the first place. you wanted to stay in nam till you died. i don't know how the book was researched, but it seemed like he profiled voluntary lifers

denis johnson also wrote from the perspective of a few vietnamese folk and shared their stories, some unrelated to the war but relevant for being vietnamese. also a female canadian ngo/ jesus freak. lifer

if anyone's read it i've got some questions. mostly about the acid

Jack Whyte if you like medieval/King Arthurish tales.

(06-05-2014 05:26 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  Anyone recommend any authors or books. My favorite is Bernard Cornwell.

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Just finished Cornwell's latest: "Fools and Mortals".

It spins a tale around a lesser-known brother of William Shakespeare in order to give a fictional tour of Elizabethan London, just as the Puritans were starting to get a little rowdy. It also gives an interesting spin on the near simultaneous authorship of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Romeo and Juliet", both wedding plays -- one as comedy and the other as tragedy.

It's a little light on the rape and pillage, at which Cornwell is masterful. But it is well-worth a read.