Enemy of God (A Novel of Arthur: The Warlord Chronicles) |
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Bernard Cornwell
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Pages: 496 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0140232478
Pub: Penguin Books Ltd
Pub date: 1997-07-03
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2654
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2nd part of the greatest Trilogy ever written (0/0 people found this helpful)
Continues on from The Winter King and skillfully handles many well known elements of the Arthurian legends such as Tristan, Lancelot and Guineveire's 'romance' and the Grail in a realistic well thought out way. The narrator of the story, Derfel Cadarn,friend of Arthur is on top form and brings to life a very realistic view of life in 500AD.
The use of the bitches against the war-dogs during one of the battles against the saxons was brilliant and cunning Merlin and Nimue are again on top Form here. If you can get hold of it try listening to Tim-pigott Smiths audio cassette of this trilogy, he reads it wonderfully and why its not been released on CD yet i dont understand.
Highly Recommended
Amazing continuation of a great saga (0/0 people found this helpful)
After the great "Winter King" here is the equally splendid second part of the trilogy. Bernard Cornwell managed to keep exactly the same very high level of storytelling and all day life and nature description. The story never gets boring and, even for people knowing the story of Saxon invasions and having some knowledge of Arthurian mythos, there are surprises in every chapter. Author's (and narrator's) dislike of Christianism is even stronger in this book that in the previous, so religious people can be somehow schocked, but still it is a great read.
the best Arthurian / Dark Age saga so far (1/1 people found this helpful)
This series of books is excellent. Much better than Sharpe (which I really enjoy as well).
The way fact, fiction and legend blend together is almost faultless. It feels 'real' and the research seems good.
The characters are well written, the battles brilliant. I wish I could go into details but I would only spoil the epic plot. Its gritty and heroic and sad all at the same time.
I've read and re-read all three books 3 or 4 times and enjoyed them each tme.
I'm really suprised there hasn't been an adaption for TV or even Film.
brilliant 99% of the time (i'd give it 100% if I there was a 4th book)
Masterful (2/2 people found this helpful)
This trilogy is brilliant. This, the second of three, is as un-put-downable as the first and a great lead into the last which you will be compelled to read!
I'd give this six stars if i could.
Someone is Stirring the Cauldron (5/9 people found this helpful)
Bernard Cornwell is one of that rare breed of authors who are able to write convincingly on a broad range of subjects. Present day thrillers, the Sharpe novels about riflemen in the days of the Duke of Wellington, even an ancient historical novel about Stonehenge and it doesn't come much more ancient than that. His more recent novels have been about the Saxons and very good they are too. But I think that the trilogy he has written about the Arthurian legends are certainly among the best, if not the best of his novels. Having visited the authors website he also believes they are the best books he has written.
The legends of King Arthur hold a magical attraction for many people, myself included and I enjoy reading about them very much. The tales of Arthur and his knights of the round table riding about in full and shining armour are of course a total nonsense and a more or less modern day depiction of Arthur. Suits of armour were not even invented until several hundred years after Arthur's death, if indeed he existed at all. But if he did it would be more around the time in which the Winter King is set.
Mr. Cornwell puts a more realistic slant on the existence of Arthur in or around the sixth century, and the author himself believes that Arthur was some sort of war chief rather than a king.
This is the second book in the trilogy. At the end of the previous book (The Winter King) Arthur has fought the decisive battle that unites the warring British Kingdoms and now he sets out to face the real enemy . . . Merlin has led a dangerous expedition into the West of the land to retrieve a cauldron, one of the treasures of Britain. Merlin believes the ancient treasures of Britain will bring the old gods onto the side of the British against the Saxons and the Christians, whom Merlin hates. However he is not the only one plotting, Arthur's wife Guinevere wants to make magic of her own . . .
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