Sean Pidgeon
Auteur van Finding Camlann
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Finding Camlann door Sean Pidgeon
This book was slow going. The academic hunt for King Arthur was for me what kept me reading. The remainder, not so much. The ending was lackluster and disappointing for me. In my opinion the characters are one dimensional and their backstory just doesn’t sit well with the search for Arthur. It’s like the author was trying to mimic the love triangle between Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot, but it just seems to be a hot mess and doesn’t add anything.
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Arkrayder | 5 andere besprekingen | Feb 27, 2022 | Gemarkeerd
Menshevixen | 5 andere besprekingen | Oct 13, 2020 | Finding Camlann is the search by Donald Gladstone, an archaeologist, for the substance behind the Arthurian myth. Working from three different points of view with an aging Welsh scholar and an Oxford linguist, Gladstone's search channels in toward the physical proof of Arthur's final battle and resting place. I loved the interwoven story lines, the search for source material and the piecing together of Arthur's historical presence.
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cfk | 5 andere besprekingen | Apr 24, 2018 | Fine, just. The style is variable, but improves after a fairly rocky start. However, the opening Scrabble game is sadly prophetic of the intellectual challenge of the rest of the novel: the characters miss the blindingly obvious repeatedly, only to have 'insight' fall into their laps or be offered freely by another. It is unclear why the author made his hero an archaeologist, when he behaves as a historian for the sake of the plot (and could have had the same preoccupations as a historian); and the Welsh uprising subplot feels like a superfluous handle to free the heroine from her marriage. All in all, frustratingly unsatisfying without being awful - not least because of occasional flashes that feel utterly authentic, such as Donald's way of navigating cross country based on historical and archaeological features.… (meer)
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imyril | 5 andere besprekingen | Nov 16, 2013 | Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
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