I'm SO glad you talked about Jack Whyte! I discovered "Skystone" when I worked in Vancouver circa 1996, and it just grabbed me! He really did a great job working within the post-Roman era and expanding the narrative to let the reader really get an epic saga!
I just finished the Powder Mage Trilogy and I have no idea what to read next! :( I really love dark fantasy and Arthurian legends though. I'm looking for a solid new series I can sink my teeth in to. You have provided many incredible options. Thank you so much for uploading this video!
I've never seen anyone so concerned about whether the covers matched. I don't see how it could possibly matter, especially if the story is good. Just seems very materialistic and shallow.
Never heard of that last one. Sadly I’m not too well read on Arthurian stuff, but one of my favorites I have read was Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff.
before viewing: I'm hoping this will help me decide from amongst: Sir Thomas Mallory Sidney Lanier's adaptation of Mallory Roger Lancelyn Green Andrew Lang or some other version
It is incredible that you have been able to keep all the books you have read since high school and maybe before. Very cool. I forgot I read the Mary Stewart series decades ago. They were really good. Also I am sure you read Lois L'Amours book on King Author.
Loved the video Brian. Out of these King Arthur books, I've just read The Once and Future King, and The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. I greatly enjoyed them both.
Morte D'Arthur, I believe, was written in Middle English. So the versions you and I have read are likely 17th-18th century translations into early Modern English.
Looking at Wikipedia ( which yeah not the most reliable source) Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, ungrammatical[1] Middle French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table-along with their respective folklore. In order to tell a "complete" story of Arthur from his conception to his death, Malory compiled, rearranged, interpreted and modified material from various French and English sources. Today, this is one of the best-known works of Arthurian literature. Many authors since the 19th-century revival of the legend have used Malory as their principal source. ( Wiki) As Elizabeth Bryan wrote of Malory's contribution to Arthurian legend in her introduction to a modern edition of Le Morte d'Arthur, "Malory did not invent the stories in this collection; he translated and compiled them. Malory in fact translated Arthurian stories that already existed in 13th-century French prose (the so-called Old French Vulgate romances) and compiled them together with Middle English sources (the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur) to create this text." ( Wiki) So yeah your correct, seem to be a translation and reworking of the original story with many sources.
The Bernard Cornwell Warlord Chronicles is masterful. One of my favorite books series ever.
I'm SO glad you talked about Jack Whyte! I discovered "Skystone" when I worked in Vancouver circa 1996, and it just grabbed me! He really did a great job working within the post-Roman era and expanding the narrative to let the reader really get an epic saga!
Those Jack Whyte books really captivated me as a young man. One of the few series I’ve reread.
I loved the Pendragon Cycle. One of the best series of any kind I've read.
Lancelot and Camelot by Giles Kristian is also dope version of King Arthur tales.
The Mary Stewart series actually has a 5th book entitled The Prince and the Pilgrim…
Just ordered it. Thanks.
I just finished the Powder Mage Trilogy and I have no idea what to read next! :( I really love dark fantasy and Arthurian legends though. I'm looking for a solid new series I can sink my teeth in to. You have provided many incredible options. Thank you so much for uploading this video!
Ahh i need to read those stephen r lawhead books 😮👍
Thank you for sharing. You did miss Chretian de Troy with Knight of the Kart, and more King Arthur tales translated from French.
This is awesome! I was just looking up the best Arthur books to read
I've never seen anyone so concerned about whether the covers matched. I don't see how it could possibly matter, especially if the story is good. Just seems very materialistic and shallow.
Sean Bane 🤔 i heard he was born in the darkness, moulded by it. He was already a man grown by the time he saw the sun and by then it was... BLINDING
The question now is: should I start with Pendragon cycle or with Jack Whyte’s books? :)
Never heard of that last one. Sadly I’m not too well read on Arthurian stuff, but one of my favorites I have read was Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff.
Literally finished Sword at Sunset just yesterday. It’s a gem of a book. I think I had something in my eye at the end.
The Singing Sword? Better hide it before Yosemite Sam catches you. :) Wonder if anyone will get the reference?
before viewing:
I'm hoping this will help me decide from amongst:
Sir Thomas Mallory
Sidney Lanier's adaptation of Mallory
Roger Lancelyn Green
Andrew Lang
or some other version
Not what I was expecting, but entertaining and informative. I like that you include cover art and design in your reviews.
Arthur was from the North , check out " Arthur of the Gododdin " , be well , Mike
Where did u buy the books ?
Hello! Brian I just wanted to know when is third book in the Five Warrior Angels coming out?
Next year
It is incredible that you have been able to keep all the books you have read since high school and maybe before. Very cool. I forgot I read the Mary Stewart series decades ago. They were really good. Also I am sure you read Lois L'Amours book on King Author.
I just picked up your copy of The Forgetting Moon from the Monroe Library, and I gotta say, amazing work so far man
Monroe Utah??
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS Yeah, my mom grew up here and we just came back a few years ago
The first King Arthur book I ever read was Merlin's Mirror by Andre Norton. It is worth reading.
The second King Arthur book I have read is Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger. This is my favorite version of the story.
I have the Howard Pyle "Robin Hood" - excellent stuff.
I never noticed you great tattoo on your right bicep! Very nice. Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve.
Hey could you review chronicles of an imperial officer by Marc Alen edelheit great fantasy series based off of the Roman empire
Loved the video Brian. Out of these King Arthur books, I've just read The Once and Future King, and The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. I greatly enjoyed them both.
Morte D'Arthur, I believe, was written in Middle English. So the versions you and I have read are likely 17th-18th century translations into early Modern English.
Looking at Wikipedia ( which yeah not the most reliable source)
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, ungrammatical[1] Middle French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table-along with their respective folklore. In order to tell a "complete" story of Arthur from his conception to his death, Malory compiled, rearranged, interpreted and modified material from various French and English sources. Today, this is one of the best-known works of Arthurian literature. Many authors since the 19th-century revival of the legend have used Malory as their principal source.
( Wiki)
As Elizabeth Bryan wrote of Malory's contribution to Arthurian legend in her introduction to a modern edition of Le Morte d'Arthur, "Malory did not invent the stories in this collection; he translated and compiled them. Malory in fact translated Arthurian stories that already existed in 13th-century French prose (the so-called Old French Vulgate romances) and compiled them together with Middle English sources (the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur) to create this text."
( Wiki)
So yeah your correct, seem to be a translation and reworking of the original story with many sources.
Brian, I respect you and all, but I could never read Marion Zimmer Bradley. Because of the “controversy.”