Life on the Borders

[ellenkushner]

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.)

Comments

[rozk.livejournal.com]

It's a terrific book - he is a very good influence on a lot of writers. (Many of whom, of course, he would have loathed given that he was a rebarbatively reactionary curmudgeon - but I love the books nonetheless.)

[deliasherman.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I can tell that, especially from Candlemass. It probably made him a somewhat trying dinner companion. But the rebartative curmudgeonliness, anyway, made for great writing.