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Can anybody recommend me some historical fiction?

>> No.14046345

Read this series.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/43179-demetrios-askiates

>> No.14046365

>>14046311
Western narratives of Chinese and Soviet "atrocities"

>> No.14046390

The most pseud genre of all time.

Don't waste your time OP.

>> No.14046402

>>14046390
In all honesty a friend is asking me for book recommendations and he specifically asked for historical fiction
Trying to help him out while he sits in his deer stand

>>14046345
Would he have to know a lot about the Eastern Roman Empire for these books to make any sense to him or can they be understood by most?

>>14046365
My friend is also my coworker so I don’t want to cross that line and shit where I eat

>> No.14046426

>>14046402
They can be understood by most. I read them in high school and knew nothing of the Byzantine empire.

>> No.14046429

Gore Vidal’s “American Empire” series.

>> No.14046431 [DELETED] 

>>14046429
You will never pass

>> No.14046434

>>14046365

So, it isn't the case that millions died during the Great Leap Forward and Stalinism, is this what you are saying?

>> No.14046438

Any particular era or setting?

>> No.14046459

>>14046438
I don’t know how deep his history knowledge is or those interest levels honestly but I think a failsafe bet is anything American history

>> No.14046482

>>14046429
This seems like it could be pretty awesome desu but you are a tripfag so like that’s a problem

>> No.14046534

>>14046482
Naw. Don’t let anons tell you what to think. Start chronologically with Burr and see how you like his style.

>> No.14046562

>>14046434
The imperfect management of the Great Leap Forward is regrettable. What's not regrettable is that it literally ended famine in China, once a yearly occurence.

>> No.14046586

>>14046562
based Chinese having to kill millions of their own people to end famines, unlike capitalist countries that just ended the famines

>> No.14046599

>>14046586

I'm anti-communist and hate the CPC but even I can see the problem with this one; what the above guy is intimating with his very diplomatic language is a rather hard utilitarian calculus, with a straight face. The point is that the capitalist mode of social reproduction is superior exactly because it entails freedom. Trade implies a degree of freedom among its actors.

>> No.14046671

>>14046311
jarhead

>> No.14046674

>>14046534
>Don’t let anons tell you what to think.
I don't need another anon to tell me what's gay. Namefags get scrolled past, Everytime

>> No.14046898

>>14046429
The Diary of Butterbooger

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14046915

>>14046674
>NPC groupthink police

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>>14046311

Anne Frank pregnancy erotica

Also, Team Yankee, but that’s technically alternate history

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>>14046534

>> No.14047208

>>14046915
>it completely ignores the fact that it looks gay to an independent observer
>it keeps harping about NPCs after voting for Obama and selfieposting
You're gay, and it's neither rocket science not peer pressure to say so.

>> No.14047284

The Name of the Rose

>> No.14047702 [DELETED] 

>>14046534
You will never pass

>> No.14047769

>>14046534
Genuine question: why do you not post anonymously like the majority here do? I'm curious.

>> No.14047790

>>14046562
Based

>> No.14047812

Butcher's Crossing and Augustus by John Williams

>> No.14047867

>>14047284
>>14047812
These sound very based

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14047875

Idk if you like 19th century novels but this is the very definition of 'historical fiction'

>> No.14048377

>>14047769
Because he is an attention whore tranny

>> No.14048426

I find it surprising that historical fiction is a successful book field. It seems so niche to me, like I'm surprised that that many people would be interested in it. I guess it's pointless to think you can predict all of humanity's liked things. A true exercise in futility to try that. lol History is so abundant in information I find it hard to justify reading altered history. I can't fit in the piece of my day to do it. Any time I would be reading about a modified World War 1 I wouldn't be able to stop considering the scenario where I was actually learning about the real World War 1. It's really too much for me, in practice. All that data. There's never gonna be a compartmentalization in my mind for fake history and real history. I won't do it. lol

>> No.14048431

>>14046311
Arabia Felix

>> No.14048467

>>14048426
I see it the same as people immersing themselves in the lore of other fictional universes. It is just that these alt history ones are much closer to our own.

>> No.14049514

>>14048431
Oh I think he’d like this.
When I was reading it said this was a true story?

>> No.14049556

>>14047875
this was awful. Sabbatini is great

>> No.14049625

>>14049556
>Sabatini
Nice one, anon. Sabatini is indeed great. A lot of Dumas also falls into the historical fiction category, and of course Dumas is a wonderful read, too.

>> No.14049676

>>14046311
Ivanhoe

>> No.14049726

>>14049556
Did you read the History Of The Column Of Infamy?

>> No.14049742

>>14049556
you may not like it, but it's actually the very definition of historical fiction