i think 'bringing up the bodies' was really good but i always like the parts in stories where the hero has everything going p smoothly and is coming out on top and you can feel the sympathetic flush of success
― Lamp, Tuesday, July 24, 2012 11:10 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol when more and gardiner where simultaneously marginalized i was so happy for him
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
i had a few physical correspondences that i couldn't shake
cromwell: al swearingenanne: sasha greyhenry: tim tebow (older)
― goole, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
lmao oh no
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i know
― goole, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
ahhhhhhh hahahahaha
― max, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
new one seem to be written in a somewhat simpler lighter mode, maybe to reflect cromwells ascension, or maybe by accident, or maybe im imagining it, anyway im gonna miss this guy when there are no more books left
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
my only complaint is it wasnt nearly as long as wolf hall
― lag∞n, Sunday, 5 August 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
well maybe and the third one doesnt exist yet
― lag∞n, Sunday, 5 August 2012 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
i need a new book for traveling this weekend, is this it? is the writing really great?
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, 13 August 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 05:07 (twelve years ago) link
haha when i finished 'bringing up the bodies' i immediately read the wikipedia summaries of any character i vaguely cared about
― Lamp, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
hah I have purposely not spolierized myself which is p lol for a historical novel
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
ok i'm about 1/4 through this and i'm all in.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 24 August 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
damn I really want to read this now
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 August 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
mantel profile http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/15/121015fa_fact_macfarquhar?currentPage=all
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 06:51 (eleven years ago) link
Remarkable profile. Unusually bold style for the New Yorker.
― Get wolves (DL), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:03 (eleven years ago) link
and another booker prize
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
I'm actually reading APoGS with a book on the french revolution in the other hand, to clarify as i go. ― Jesu swept (ledge), Wednesday, June 6, 2012 4:10 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
doing the same w/wolf hall & wikipedia
this book is brilliant
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Sunday, 21 October 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
paperback of sequel not due till april 2013 wtf /gettingaheadofmyself
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Sunday, 21 October 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
i've had this on my 'list:read/sublist:probably won't read' for a while but based on the enthusiasm here i'm gonna bump it up.
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 21 October 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
is it historical fiction like the da vinci code or like the holocaust?
its a prequel to the davinci code
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 21 October 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
Oh FINE, I'll read this. (Also bumping to top of list based mostly on max's enthusiasm if I'm being completely honest.) Usually I don't like historical fiction because it always ends badly, because no one ever writes about all the nameless people of history who DIDN'T make terrible personal choices and therefore didn't make a bad end in a dark alley (or a tower courtyard). But OKAY, JEEZ.
― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Sunday, 21 October 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
can i read Bring Up The Bodies without reading Wolf Hall first?
― nostormo, Friday, 9 November 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
you prob could, it does a bunch of recapping, but really its just the 2nd part of the same book, it picks up right where wolf hall left off and everything, recommend starting at the beginning
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 November 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
but i understand that it's much better than Wold Hall and i don't have the patience to read 1000 pages now..
― nostormo, Friday, 9 November 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
lol who said that, crazy talk
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 November 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
i think maybe i liked wolf hall a lil better but really they are v v similar
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 November 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
reviews..xpost
thanks for the tip anyway..
― nostormo, Friday, 9 November 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
from my vantage point of being halfway thru the first book after picking it up yesterday i would say that "better" is relative to the point of irrelevance. this is excellent.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 9 November 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
James wood liked wolf hall better
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 November 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
im reading ' a place of greater safety ' now -- her french revolution one and
yall
it
is
so
good
― max, Thursday, 31 January 2013 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
i dont want to read history anymore i just want to read hilary mantels historical novels. i want hilary mantel on the 30 yrs war
― max, Thursday, 31 January 2013 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
hilary mantel on the unification of italy
hilary mantels lenin
― max, Thursday, 31 January 2013 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
Gotta read these books
― Gukbe, Thursday, 31 January 2013 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
If someone wants to convince me what makes them so great in two sentences I might be inspired.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 31 January 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
i can't imagine that anyone who is interested at all by the premise would fail to enjoy the wolf hall books
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 31 January 2013 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
Too many years reading academic history books has made this kind of thing hard to get into, but I love the period.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 31 January 2013 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
its a better written version of a massive fantasy epic except the people are all real and the only magic is mastery of political intrigues
― future crimes (Lamp), Thursday, 31 January 2013 08:21 (eleven years ago) link
Well done!
― Gukbe, Thursday, 31 January 2013 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
lamp hardcore otm. i was hoping no one else had noticed. i have a developing idea for kind of ripping off the style of these books but applied to a different historical era and disguised in a more fantastical setting.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 31 January 2013 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
tom crom, space pirate
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 31 January 2013 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
not really but that might actually be better
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 31 January 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
"better written" is of course u+k
― ledge, Thursday, 31 January 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
lamp super otm
Wolf Hall rly rly reminded me of Dorothy Dunnet's Niccolo series (which is just historical fiction, no dragons or w/e), like i knew WH was more ~literary~ and shit and the Niccolo books happen like a century earlier, but the scenes in my mind all had a really similar feel to them.
― bantz a make her dance (c sharp major), Thursday, 31 January 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
to which end i prefer A Place Of Greater Safety because Camille Desmoulins
― bantz a make her dance (c sharp major), Thursday, 31 January 2013 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
so dreamy
um i mean because it feels more distinct, more its own book and its own world.
― bantz a make her dance (c sharp major), Thursday, 31 January 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies
i read this earlier this week and was really blown away, its maybe a little ott here and there but altogether a really wonderful essay/lecture whatever
anyway i was... interested to see this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280780/Kate-Middleton-plastic-princess-designed-breed-Author-Hilary-Mantel-attacks-Duchess-Cambridge.html
this morning. linked to by matt drudge of all people
― max, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
s2 sorry
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
theyre reshooting the ending after the first one screened badly with the focus group
― mark s, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
tc goes to space
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
in the last page of Mirror he kind of does!the audiobook read by Ben Miles is great. i've never been one for those but I gave it a shot and now I think I'm spoiled on any other, it's a tremendous performance.
― goole, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 18:59 (six months ago) link
this past week i read “Memoirs Of My Former Self” - the posthumous collection of Mantel’s essays, reviews & lecturesReally great collection, lots of variety in her essays (she even reviewed movies back in the late 80’s!) there’s a really beautiful essay from 2007 she wrote about visiting Rafe Sadler’s house in Hampstead, and how she wasn’t overcome by any feelings one way or another until she saw the handmade Tudor bricks in the cellar, one with the outline of blade of grass caught in it, and another with a dog’s pawprint, and she was suddenly reduced to tears by the shock of the past. <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 10 September 2024 01:28 (one week ago) link
Thanks for tip; bought immediately. :)
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 14 September 2024 21:55 (one week ago) link