Day #17 of the 30 Day Book Challenge
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shadowkatDay 17 of 30 Day Book Challenge
The prompt is A Book That a Friend Recommended
It's actually a series...
The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
The "Lymond Chronicles" is a series of six novels exploring the intricacies of 16th-century history through the exploits of the soldier Francis Crawford of Lymond.
Think the Three Musketeers but by a Modern 20th Century British Female Writer, with a classical Scottish Hero from the 16th Century.
I loved it. My friend Alice Chiu, who I met through the Buffy fandom, talked me into reading them. She also talked me into watching Farscape. I adored both. We lost contact over the years - life took us in different directions, and it became impossible to stay in touch. This is true of life, unfortunately. People on the ATPOBTVS board where I met her, knew her as pumpkinpuss or the travel agent that arranged the NY Meetup.
Through these books I met other Buffy fans. There was a list serve entitled Sunnydale U that was for Dunnett fans of Buffy - it was a scholarly group of academics, over the age of 35, who discussed the series.
It's a series that is begging for a television adaptation but has yet to receive one. I think Dunnett envisioned a young Peter O'Toole in the title role - from Lawrence of Arabia. A lot of Buffy fans wanted James Marsters to play it. Personally I think Tom Hiddleston would have been perfect or the guy who played Jamie Lannister. But that's just me.
The prompt is A Book That a Friend Recommended
It's actually a series...
The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
The "Lymond Chronicles" is a series of six novels exploring the intricacies of 16th-century history through the exploits of the soldier Francis Crawford of Lymond.
Think the Three Musketeers but by a Modern 20th Century British Female Writer, with a classical Scottish Hero from the 16th Century.
I loved it. My friend Alice Chiu, who I met through the Buffy fandom, talked me into reading them. She also talked me into watching Farscape. I adored both. We lost contact over the years - life took us in different directions, and it became impossible to stay in touch. This is true of life, unfortunately. People on the ATPOBTVS board where I met her, knew her as pumpkinpuss or the travel agent that arranged the NY Meetup.
Through these books I met other Buffy fans. There was a list serve entitled Sunnydale U that was for Dunnett fans of Buffy - it was a scholarly group of academics, over the age of 35, who discussed the series.
It's a series that is begging for a television adaptation but has yet to receive one. I think Dunnett envisioned a young Peter O'Toole in the title role - from Lawrence of Arabia. A lot of Buffy fans wanted James Marsters to play it. Personally I think Tom Hiddleston would have been perfect or the guy who played Jamie Lannister. But that's just me.
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Date: 2020-11-15 06:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-16 01:51 am (UTC)Lymond isn't all that old - he's in his early 20s, if that.