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Rob Burton
is 34% done
I'm no great fan of Neil Oliver either as a presenter or an archeaologist - I think he thinks he's more important than he really is and is given, in my opinion, to stating the bleeding obvious. But the book was 0.99p and I have written my own book (fiction) which included Vikings and I enjoyed doing the research so I thought I'd give it a go. And to be fair to Mr Oliver, I am enjoying the read so far...
— Oct 30, 2019 05:06AM
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Rob Burton
is 68% done
I am persevering with this book as I am interested in the subject matter and the history is fascinating - what I don't get is Oliver's habit of filling in the blanks with conjecture and fanciful notions of what people were thinking and their reasons for doing what they did. He quite plainly notes the Vikings didn't leave a written history and what was written was done centuries after the fact by other people.
— Nov 07, 2019 10:44PM
