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Stonehenge tells you a story set in ancient England circa 2000 B.C. I thought that the characters were very rich as much in personality as in appearance. In other hand, I preferred the other books cause it was presented more battle campaigns and tons of action. I won't tell much more about ... Read review
From the earliest times, human beings have looked at the sun and the moon, and at life and ... more
death, and have imagined gods who control such things, and looked for ways to control those gods. In Stonehenge, Bernard Cornwell, famous for his novels about Ri...
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From the earliest times, human beings have looked at the sun and the moon, and at life and ... more
death, and have imagined gods who control such things, and looked for ways to control those gods. InStonehenge, Bernard Cornwell, famous for his novels about Rif...
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Bernard Cornwell's new novel following the enormous success of his Arthurian trilogy (The ... more
Winter King Enemy of God and Excalibur) is the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that creates the great temple. One summer's day a dying stranger ca...
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One summer's day, a stranger carrying a great wealth in gold comes to Ratharryn. He dies ... more
in the old temple. The people assume that the gold is a gift from the gods. But the mysterious treasure causes great dissension, both without from tribal rivalry, and within.
From the earliest times, human beings have looked at the sun and the moon, and at life and ... more
death, and have imagined gods who control such things, and looked for ways to control those gods... In Stonehenge, Bernard Cornwell, famous for his novels about Rifleman Sharpe's adventures in the Napoleonic wars and for a sequence of brutally realistic Arthurian novels, considers the men and women who built Stonehenge and Avebury. These stone circles are impressive enough today; but all the more so if you imagine shifting stones from Wales to Salisbury Plain by raft and roller, dressing them with burning fat and grindstones, hauling the lintel stones up tiers of platforms. "The oxen were goaded again, and, finger's breadth by finger's breadth, the huge stone eased forward until half of it was poised and then the oxen tugged once more and Saban was shouting at the beasts' drivers to halt the animals because the stone was tipping at last. For a heartbeat, it seemed to balance on the ramp's edge, then its leading half crashed down onto the timbers, then the great boulder slid down the ramp to lodge against the hole's face." It is the story of Saban, made architect against his will; of his brothers Lengar, the aspiring conqueror and Camaban, the cripple-turned-magician. It is the story of Derrewynn, princess-turned-witch, and Aurenna, sacrifice-turned-priestess queen. Stonehenge is an epic tale of people as smart as us, inventing religion and mythology and forcing their wills on the world and each other. --Roz Kaveney
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From the earliest times, human beings have looked at the sun and the moon, and at life and ... more
death, and have imagined gods who control such things, and looked for ways to control those gods. In Stonehenge, Bernard Cornwell, famous for his novels about Rifleman Sharpe's adventures in the Napoleonic wars and for a sequence of brutally realistic Arthurian novels, considers the men and women who built Stonehenge and Avebury. These stone circles are impressive enough today; but all the more so if you imagine shifting stones from Wales to Salisbury Plain by raft and roller, dressing them with burning fat and grindstones, hauling the lintel stones up tiers of platforms. "The oxen were goaded again, and, finger's breadth by finger's breadth, the huge stone eased forward until half of it was poised and then the oxen tugged once more and Saban was shouting at the beasts' drivers to halt the animals because the stone was tipping at last. For a heartbeat, it seemed to balance on the ramp's edge, then its leading half crashed down onto the timbers, then the great boulder slid down the ramp to lodge against the hole's face." It is the story of Saban, made architect against his will; of his brothers Lengar, the aspiring conqueror and Camaban, the cripple-turned-magician. It is the story of Derrewynn, princess-turned-witch, and Aurenna, sacrifice-turned-priestess queen. Stonehenge is an epic tale of people as smart as us, inventing religion and mythology and forcing their wills on the world and each other. --Roz Kaveney
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From the earliest times, human beings have looked at the sun and the moon, and at life and ... more
death, and have imagined gods who control such things, and looked for ways to control those gods... In Stonehenge, Bernard Cornwell, famous for his novels about Rifleman Sharpe's adventures in the Napoleonic wars and for a sequence of brutally realistic Arthurian novels, considers the men and women who built Stonehenge and Avebury. These stone circles are impressive enough today; but all the more so if you imagine shifting stones from Wales to Salisbury Plain by raft and roller, dressing them with burning fat and grindstones, hauling the lintel stones up tiers of platforms. "The oxen were goaded again, and, finger's breadth by finger's breadth, the huge stone eased forward until half of it was poised and then the oxen tugged once more and Saban was shouting at the beasts' drivers to halt the animals because the stone was tipping at last. For a heartbeat, it seemed to balance on the ramp's edge, then its leading half crashed down onto the timbers, then the great boulder slid down the ramp to lodge against the hole's face." It is the story of Saban, made architect against his will; of his brothers Lengar, the aspiring conqueror and Camaban, the cripple-turned-magician. It is the story of Derrewynn, princess-turned-witch, and Aurenna, sacrifice-turned-priestess queen. Stonehenge is an epic tale of people as smart as us, inventing religion and mythology and forcing their wills on the world and each other. --Roz Kaveney
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Advantages: Richly detailed characters; Great environment; Historically genuine crafts and gears. Disadvantages: A few boring episodes.
...its end.
Stonehenge tells you a story set in ancient England circa 2000 B.C. I thought that the characters were very rich as much in personality as in appearance. In other hand, I preferred the other books cause it was presented more battle campaigns and tons of action. I won't tell much more about it, so it wouldn't be spoiled.
Overall, it's not a bad book at all. It have some action, even thought i would ask for more. ... more
As a fan, i really liked Arthur Trilogy and Lords of the North. Cornwell provides well detailed and fast paced narrative, making you sad when the book comes to its end.
Stonehenge tells you a story set in ancient England circa 2000 B.C. I thought that the characters were very rich as much in personality as in appearance. In other hand, I preferred the other books cause it was presented more battle campaigns and tons of action. I won't tell much more about it, so it wouldn't be spoiled.
Overall, it's not a bad book at all. It have some action, even thought i would ask for more. Fans of historical romances would not be disappointed. If anyone is trying to start reading Bernard Cornwell, i suggest starting with this one.
Advantages: Bernard Cornwell. Disadvantages: Not his best novel.
The druid's groves are gone - so much the better. Stonehenge is not - but what the Devel is it? (Lord Byron, Don Juan Canto XI,verse XXV).
A good question, one that has been asked many times before and one that has been answerd many times. Not all of the explanations have been credable, for example, Alien intervention, a gift from the gods and even made by a giant race of men. The best explanation i have heard is the novel Stonehenge by BernardCornwell and published by Harper Collins.
The story starts in the valley of Ratharryn. Thought to be in the south west of england. The cheiftain of Ratharryn has three sons, a promising warrior, a young hunter and a crippled religious fanatic. The story follows the three young men as they embark on their own seperate journeys. The warrior, Lengar, seeks power and wealth. When ...
Advantages: well researched, successfully recreating the life and mindset of the ancients of britain Disadvantages: Disadvantages: story is slow placed and tedious in places
Stonehenge is a historical novel set 2000 years before the birth of Christ, and offers an explain the construction of Stonehenge. The story is centered around three brothers from the tribe of Ratharynn; The hotheaded warrior Lengar, his younger, initially weaker brother Saban, and the crippled and deformed outcast and self-made sorceror Camaban.
Cornwell does a good job of bringing to life a cruel world in which the will of the Gods can be read from every shaft of sunlight, tremble of a branch and flight of a bird, in which the cunning yet unhinged Camaban rises to prominence and seeks to build a vast temple to bring together Slaol, the god of the Sun and Lahanna, the Goddess of the moon to usher ancient man into a new age.
As with the sun god Baal in Wilbur Smith's "The Sunbird", these celestial deities are central characters in ...
Advantages: Easy reading Disadvantages: Long winded
I bought Stonehenge by BernardCornwell last week, whilst in the throes of a hangover. I thought, having read most of the Sharpe books, that it would be an immersing but undemanding yarn to keep me going. It starts off fine with some decent characterisations and interesting twists and turns, but these become buried under a monotonous and long winded mid-book commentary. The characters, once developed, didn?t do anything to endear themselves to me. This was a pity as I found myself wanting to like them, but it was just too hard. Having said that it didn?t take me long to finish the book, so it can?t have been that bad. Worth getting from the library if you?re ill. ...
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EAN
9780006513865
Type
Fiction
Genre
Historical Fiction
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Title
Stonehenge
Author
Bernard Cornwell
ISBN
0006513867
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Bernard Cornwell's new novel following the enormous success of his Arthurian trilogy (The Winter King Enemy of God and Excalibur) is the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that creates the great temple. One summer's day a dying stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement of Ratharryn. The three sons of Ratharryn's chief each perceive the great gift in a different way. The eldest Lengar the warrior harnesses his murderous ambition to be a ruler and take great power for his tribe. Camaban becomes a great visionary and feared wise man and it is his vision that will force the youngest brother Saban to create the great temple on the green hill where the gods will appear on earth. Saban' s love for Aurenna the sun bride whose destiny is to die for the gods finally brings the rivalries of the brothers to a head. But it is also his skills that will build the vast temple a place for the gods certainly but also a place that will confirm for ever the supreme power of the tribe that built it. Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC is first and foremost a great historical novel. Bernard Cornwell is well known and admired for the realism and imagination with which he brings earlier worlds to life. And here he uses all these skills to recreate the world of primitive Britain and to solve the mysteries of who built Stonehenge how and why. 'A circle of chalk a ring of stone and a house of arches to call the far gods home
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