Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-19
Books mentioned on What It's Like to Write a King Arthur Tale
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
Lev Grossman's fantasy novel The Bright Sword reimagines the Arthurian legend through a fresh and expansive lens.
Discussed“the latest version of the story is called the bright swword and its author is Lev grman”
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The Magicians
Discussed“The Magicians was not my first book I had two books before then but The Magicians was when I really I found my voice as a writer and really learned my craft”
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory is the classic fifteenth-century compilation of Arthurian romances that definitively shaped the legends of King Arthur, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table.
Discussed“epigraph to your second book The Magician King is from Sir Thomas mallerie's version of this story”
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The Magician King
Discussed“as I was going through my copies of your books last night the magician Trilogy I I did note that the epigraph to your second book The Magician King is from Sir Thomas mallerie's version of this story”
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The Once and Future King
The Once and Future King by T.
Discussed“I realized that I felt like the once in Future King which I loved no less but it felt like a book that belonged to the past”
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The Mists of Avalon
Discussed“I'm not the first to notice this probably Mr of Avalon which is now a somewhat problematic book to talk about”
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The Winter King
The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell is a gritty, historical reimagining of the Arthurian legend told from the perspective of an elderly Derfel Cadarn.
Recommended“the one that states with me is the winter King by Vernard Cornwell amazing book”
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Idylls of the King
Discussed“probably Tennyson idles of the king as the high water mark of that”
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Watchmen
Watchmen is a seminal graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons that deconstructs the superhero genre against the backdrop of an alternate Cold War history.
Discussed“I feel like the great Treatise on this which was a formative reading experience for me is Watchmen by Alan Moore which I read when I was in high school”
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War and Peace
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a monumental literary masterpiece that chronicles Russian society, family life, and the dramatic historical events surrounding the Napoleonic Wars.
Discussed“that scene oddly came out of I I I had been reading War and Peace a book that I had put off reading for a very long time”
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Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel is a meticulously researched historical fiction novel that chronicles the rise of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII.
Discussed“and of course that immediately made me think about Wolf Hall uh a book that we were lucky enough to have you write a little thing about for our recent list of the best books of the 21st century”
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Jonathan Strange and Mr.
Discussed“there is a book that is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year it came out in 2004 and that's a book called Jonathan strange and Mr norl which I know you have talked about in the past”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and I thought somebody it was time somebody took him seriously and told his story and that that that's how the bright sword happened”
“I'm joined this week by Lev grman author of the bright sword a novel of King Arthur”
“and I came back to that in in the bright swword one of the heroes of the book column”
“And I tried to bring some of that to the battle scenes in the bright sword because it must have been a truly amazingly difficult experience being in a battle”
“congratulations on finally reaching the end of a decade of writing the bright sword a novel of King Arthur”