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ellenkushner) wrote2010-04-27 06:23 pm
ellenkushner) wrote2010-04-27 06:23 pm
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Life on the Borders
Has anyone else read George MacDonald Fraser's novel The Candlemass Road?
What an amazing book.
Found it in a used bookstore in Oxford last fall, mistakenly shelved under Children's (oh, my!).
(Yes, I've read his The Steel Bonnets. And Flashman, natch. And all of Dunnett -- this is a pretty different side of that coin, I can tell you! Fraser also wrote the screenplay for Richard Lester's Three Musketeers, a huge influence on me [not to mention Octopussy. which was not]. His ear for language is incredible.)
What an amazing book.
Found it in a used bookstore in Oxford last fall, mistakenly shelved under Children's (oh, my!).
(Yes, I've read his The Steel Bonnets. And Flashman, natch. And all of Dunnett -- this is a pretty different side of that coin, I can tell you! Fraser also wrote the screenplay for Richard Lester's Three Musketeers, a huge influence on me [not to mention Octopussy. which was not]. His ear for language is incredible.)