I’ve already written a massive review about this book, so I’ll spare you. Suffice to say the book pretty well rocked, and the movie was one of the most horrible pieces of crap I’ve ever seen in my life. The comic is a pretty accurate detail of what it was like to read the book, I really did hate Anne Boleyn with such venom for about 450 pages that I could barely sit still, but Gregory does a pretty good job of turning her around towards the end so that you can feel for her as she gets trapped in her own web.
On the same topic, I recently finished Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminisit Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII. It was interesting, but I didn’t feel it was a very in depth (or feminist) account of these women, I also didn’t love the author’s writing style and often found it a bit confusing, so I’ve moved on to The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir, which is a giant in-depth biography. I’m about 100 pages in and so far find it incredibly informative and well-written.
It’s funny, I probably would have read and enjoyed a book like this in school had it been assigned to me, but I certainly never would have read it in my free time of my own volition, and here I am not only reading it, but actively hunting down other good biographies I’ve heard of. Strange how people grow up and change.
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I know what you mean. As a kid, I read Grapes of Wrath and Count of Monte Cristo for fun. But I’m not sure I’d be excited to read them now. Robinson Crusoe, while very trying at times to get through, I’ve re-read that a few times. Just can’t beat the stranded island story.
Too bad you’re not into WWII stories. Those are much more exciting than a bunch of women running around in fancy dresses seducing men or power.
I’ll start running now to get a head start. Lord knows you’ll be hunting me down for that comment.
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TK42ONE: “I’ll start running now to get a head start. Lord knows you’ll be hunting me down for that comment.”
Never were truer words ever spoken.
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Don’t worry, Kelly. I slipped a homing tracer underneath his car earlier last week. He won’t get far.
That said, have not read the book or seen the movie. But it has Natalie Portman in it. So maybe I should…
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But I heard she doesn’t even get nekkid, so what’s the point?
And who says I drove my car today?
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Great observation TK42one. I think we know how that story ends anyway.
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Paul: Thank you Paul. Natalie does not come out too well in Boleyn…she’s kind of a shrieking mess. Scarlett fares better, if only because he character is more subdued.
TK42ONE: Scarlett gets more naked than Natalie, but it’s all very PG-13 and thus who cares?
TK42ONE & Mike: You guys are SO predictable. Would it kill you all to be just slightly less predictable?
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