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Anonymous Thu Feb 8 11:49:49 2018 No.10661530 [Reply] [Original]

>historical fiction
Why?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 11:51:37 2018 No.10661542 >>10661530 Because King Arthur is more interesting than what actually happened

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 11:51:49 2018 No.10661545 Pillars of the Earth is a pretty engaging novel imo

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 11:58:20 2018 No.10661591 >>10661530 chagrins

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 12:07:54 2018 No.10661651 >>10661530 >not allowed to read anything not released in past 11 years

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 13:13:28 2018 No.10662027 >>10661530 I liked Quo Vadis and found a lot of Sharon Penman's stuff interesting, though the latter more for putting history in context than as literature.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 13:17:23 2018 No.10662054 File: 270 KB, 431x388, 1471491118456.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10661530 make a thread with a dumb premise and vague question >Why?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 8 16:01:07 2018 No.10662998 "War and Peace" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" are historical fiction books. Not every story should be contemporary, that's just boring.