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<blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 2217310" data-attributes="member: 1057"><p>Somewhat related: I don't know if I'll see this movie (though in general I like Ridley Scott's work, and thought <em>Blackhawk Down</em> was excellent, not to mention <em>Alien</em>, of course), but an excellent historical fiction about the Crusades is Evan S. Connell's <em>Deus Lo Volt!</em></p><p></p><p>It's great, told from the skewed viewpoint of a knight on one of the Crusades, referencing previous Crusades, and chock full of fascinating storytelling. It does a nice job of addressing much of the gray-area concerns surrounding the Crusades by basically saying, "Everybody does terrible things, and everybody insists their terrible things are the right thing to do!"</p><p></p><p>The language is very faithful to accounts from the period, and its like reading a wonderful tapestry, full of color and age and strange visual representations.</p><p></p><p>Highly recommended!</p><p></p><p>We now return to our regular movie discussion.</p><p></p><p>Warrior Poet</p><p></p><p><em>edit: Repaired homonym, retreating to hang head in shame.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warrior Poet, post: 2217310, member: 1057"] Somewhat related: I don't know if I'll see this movie (though in general I like Ridley Scott's work, and thought [I]Blackhawk Down[/I] was excellent, not to mention [I]Alien[/I], of course), but an excellent historical fiction about the Crusades is Evan S. Connell's [I]Deus Lo Volt![/I] It's great, told from the skewed viewpoint of a knight on one of the Crusades, referencing previous Crusades, and chock full of fascinating storytelling. It does a nice job of addressing much of the gray-area concerns surrounding the Crusades by basically saying, "Everybody does terrible things, and everybody insists their terrible things are the right thing to do!" The language is very faithful to accounts from the period, and its like reading a wonderful tapestry, full of color and age and strange visual representations. Highly recommended! We now return to our regular movie discussion. Warrior Poet [I]edit: Repaired homonym, retreating to hang head in shame.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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