Rereading Harry Harrison's "Stars & Stripes" trilogy. What if Prince Albert died a few weeks earlier and England declared war on the USA over the Mason/Slidell incident in 1861?
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I'm just finishing Louis L'Amour's "The Walking Drum." His only non western, historical adventure novel. And I have enjoyed it thoroughly.
I was disappointed to find out that L'Amour had planned to make it into a trilogy, but died without completing it.
Have any of you read it, and if so, and you are fans of historical novels, can you recommend to me any similarly rousing historical adventures?
I'm a big fan of Kenneth Roberts, and have read all of his works.
But I'm really into the whole swashbuckling swords/pirates/hashisians mythos right now. Has anyone else written anything similar?
Louis L'Amour also wrote "Last of the Breed" which is a non-western adventture in cold war era Russia/Siberia, its a good read. Otherwise, the first two books of "The Sacketts" series are more colonist era early America, with a hint of swashbuckling thrown in for fun.
Right now im starting Stephen King's Dark tower series, on the second book "The Drawing of the Three." I have not been in a reading mood recently so its taking me a long time to get through this even though the story is great. Recently I have just wanted to come home and rot my brain with some MW2 or Mass Effect on the 360...
World War Z by Max Brooks
Louis L'Amour also wrote "Last of the Breed" which is a non-western adventture in cold war era Russia/Siberia, its a good read. Otherwise, the first two books of "The Sacketts" series are more colonist era early America, with a hint of swashbuckling thrown in for fun.
Right now im starting Stephen King's Dark tower series, on the second book "The Drawing of the Three." I have not been in a reading mood recently so its taking me a long time to get through this even though the story is great. .
Belgariad by David Eddings...........again.
Just started Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I needed a break from all that serious stuff I've been reading this past year. It's ultimately going to be a 15 book series, averaging about 800 pages each book. Yeah, I'll be busy for a while!
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