Reddit reviews Queen Of The Silk Road: An Historical Fiction Novel
We found 2 Reddit comments about Queen Of The Silk Road: An Historical Fiction Novel. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
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Marguerite Yourcenar--author of Memoirs of Hadrian, which is totally awesome, don't be turned off by the inordinate amount of time she spends at the beginning talking about ancient dieting preferences, it feels like she put that there to get vacillating readers to spend their time elsewhere. Her other book, The Abyss, is about a medieval alchemist and is excellent in every imaginable way.
Mary Renault--I've read a bunch of her books about ancient Greece and loved them all. The Persian Boy, probably her most famous character, made it into the otherwise lame Oliver Stone movie about Alexander the Great.
Steven Pressfield is so good I used Gates of Fire to get a kid who said he hated reading to get into the habit of reading books--he came back to me a few weeks later and told me he loved it. One of Pressfield's audiobooks is read by the dude who was the good senator in Gladiator and was quite a fun listen.
These last three are relatively well-known, but there are two lesser-known books you might take a chance on. One is Sea of Lentils, about several perspectives on the discovery of the New World, including the native Indians, an hidalgo on one of Columbus's voyages, a slaver who invents the Triangle Trade, and the dying King of Spain. A shame this perfect (but challenging) book isn't better known.
Then, forgive the horn-tooting, but there's my own book, Queen of the Silk Road, about medieval traders engineering the total destruction of Korea. Only click the link if you want to have your mind blown.