A Search for the King

I actually rlly enjoyed this! Yes, it’s not as delightful and fluent as his later novels but for a 25 year-old this is pretty good. Also top marks for including all my favourite things: dragons, poetry loving giants, riding bareback on unicorns, vampires, uncool werewolves, medieval rap battles, and......more

I can imagine Vidal, suffering the New York Times anathema, wondering if maybe he should turn to genre fiction. A Search for the King is an early attempt at the historical fiction with which Vidal developed such stunning expertise, and I found the references to dragons, unicorns, and Robin Hood oddl......more

Colección Grandes Éxitos de la Novela Histórica ÍNDICE Nota……………………………………………………………… 9 I. La captura (Otoño de 1192)………………………… 11 II. La búsqueda (Invierno de 1192-1193)………… 65 III. El regreso (Primavera de 1193)………………… 167 IV. La batalla (28 de marzo de 1194)……………… 213......more

Vidal takes the legends surrounding Richard the Lionheart and crafts a story that mixes the gritty reality of violence with the freedom of a wandering man and the magic found in out-of-the-way places. He makes Richard’s troubadour the protagonist and takes him through the fractious world of European......more

I have read several novels by Gore Vidal, and found them all to be enjoyable, especially those in the series that deals with the history of the USA. “A Search for the King” began promisingly, but began to drag on. The story deals with the kidnapping of Richard the Lion-Heart on his return from the Th......more