Any of you guys ever read Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott. What a great book! It's got Robiun hood and Friar Tuck in it for good measure.
Dont' tell me how it ends cause I am only half way through.
It's only my favoritest book EVAR! The bits where he spins off into describing the architecture can be skipped, though. You haven't finished it yet, so I'll avoid gushing about it. :P
I am glad someone else loves this book. It is really great. I tried to finish it friday night after reading your post but I must have been tired because I fell asleep after a few pages. Maybe tonight.
It's been on my shelf for years. This may be the nudge I need to make it the next book I read!
I love Walter Scott.
He was really the first great popular fiction writer in that he made a good living out his novels at a time when most novelists needed patrons or parents to help support their work.
Interestingly, he aspired to be a poet and a man of letters, perhaps because those were the folks who got all the respect in that age, and no doubt, the babes too. So when he began publishing novels he wrote under a pseudonym. He was so popular though that he revealed his identity and was one of the forces that helped novelists become respectable. Also, it took his review of Jane Eyre to get the Brits to see its greatness.
An excellent read for D&D players and pulp fiction fans.
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There was a half-baked TV series a few years back, but (as is unfortunately the case with these things), the TV company tried to add 'Xena & Hercules'-style elements to it, perhaps fearing that a straight-up historical drama wouldn't be popular.
I am sure the 'comedy-dwarf-thief-sidekick' (who looked like the missing member of The Chuckle Brothers) was the same actor as the dwarf in 'Hawk the Slayer'. Can anyone confirm this?
yep, goog story that
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I finally finished it.
The story of Athelsane coming back from the grave was good. My wife calls. Gotta go!
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Any of you guys ever read Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott. What a great book! It's got Robiun hood and Friar Tuck in it for good measure.
Dont' tell me how it ends cause I am only half way through.
Yup! Read it when I was a young chap. I have very good memories of it.
I must mention that Robin Hood is one of my favorite real world heroes of all time and that the Adventures of Robin Hood (the one from the 1930's) is my favorite movie of all time.
The robin hood parts are my favorite parts. Actually, the part where king richard comes upon Friar tuck in the woods was really really great and funny. Friar Tuck stole the show in my opinion.
All in all I thin the book was better in the beginning and middle than the end, but it was a geaet read.
the classic movie Ivanhoe is pretty good too for those more video inclined.
A ripping yarn, embroidered by Victorian Romanicism and all the better for it!
The Templars make for great baddies too- boo, hiss!