boooooooooks.

[schmerica]

You guys, I'm looking for book recommendations. What can you point me towards in the way of:

a) your favorite Arthurian-inspired novels
b) your favorite Trojan War-inspired novels
c) good mystery series (= likable hero/heroine with relationships that change and grow from book to book, along with the installments being good books on their own)

Comments

[cislocative.livejournal.com]

They're not Trojan War, exactly, but I figure if you're asking for Classical times- have you read Mary Renault's historical fiction? She's got an EXCELLENT triology about Alexander the Great (Fire from Heaven, the Persian Boy, Funeral Games) and another excellent trio about Theseus and the Minotaur, as well as a couple of singles set in Ancient Greece (The Last of the wine, Apollo's mask) around the time of Socrates.

They're all full of The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name, (of course, since the Greeks practically invented it!) and she's an excellent, excellent writer.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Man, I haven't read anything by Mary Renault at all -- which is kind of weird, when I think about it, because I've heard good things about her stuff for years.