- Hardcover: 528 pages
- Publisher: Forge; First Edition First Printing edition (21 Oct 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312869290
- ISBN-13: 978-0312869298
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,390,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Of the scores of novels based on Arthurian legend, Whyte's 'Camulod' series is distinctive, particularly in the rendering of its leading players and the residual Roman influences that survived in Britain during the Dark Ages."--"The ""Washington"" Post" on "Camulod Chronicles"""
"Whyte has done an excellent job of constructing a viable pre-Arthurian world. His fifth-century Europe is evocative, earthy, and well researched."--"Romantic Times "on" Camulod Chronicles"
"As Whyte waves off the fog of fantasy and legend surrounding the Arthurian story, he renders characters and events real and plausible."--"Booklist "on "Camulod Chronicles"
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"Whyte shows why Camulod was such a wonder, demonstrating time and again how persistence, knowledge and empathy can help push back the darkness of ignorance to build a shining future."--"Publishers Weekly "on" Camulod Chronicles"
"Whyte's story has an undeniable power that goes beyond the borrowed resonances of the mythic tales he's reworking."--"Fantasy & Science Fiction "on "Camulod Chronicles"
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"A rousing historical adventure, full of hand-to hand combat, hidden treasures, and last-minute escapes, a refreshing change from the many quasi--historical, politically correct Arthurians out there."--"Locus "on" The Skystone"
"It's one of the most interesting historical novels that I've ever read and I've read plenty."--Marion Zimmer Bradley on "The Skystone"
--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
"Whyte has done an excellent job of constructing a viable pre-Arthurian world. His fifth-century Europe is evocative, earthy, and well researched."--"Romantic Times "on" Camulod Chronicles"
"As Whyte waves off the fog of fantasy and legend surrounding the Arthurian story, he renders characters and events real and plausible."--"Booklist "on "Camulod Chronicles"
""
"Whyte shows why Camulod was such a wonder, demonstrating time and again how persistence, knowledge and empathy can help push back the darkness of ignorance to build a shining future."--"Publishers Weekly "on" Camulod Chronicles"
"Whyte's story has an undeniable power that goes beyond the borrowed resonances of the mythic tales he's reworking."--"Fantasy & Science Fiction "on "Camulod Chronicles"
""
"A rousing historical adventure, full of hand-to hand combat, hidden treasures, and last-minute escapes, a refreshing change from the many quasi--historical, politically correct Arthurians out there."--"Locus "on" The Skystone"
"It's one of the most interesting historical novels that I've ever read and I've read plenty."--Marion Zimmer Bradley on "The Skystone"
--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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Jack Whyte has written a lyrical epic, retelling the myths behind the boy who would become the Man Who Would Be King--Arthur Pendragon. He has shown us, as Diana Gabaldon said, "the bone beneath the flesh of legend." In his last book in this series, we witnessed the young king pull the sword from the stone and begin his journey to greatness. Now we reach the tale itself-how the most shining court in history was made.
Clothar is a young man of promise. He has been sent from the wreckage of Gaul to one of the few schools remaining, where logic and rhetoric are taught along with battle techniques that will allow him to survive in the cruel new world where the veneer of civilization is held together by barbarism. He is sent by his mentor on a journey to aid another young man: Arthur Pendragon. He is a man who wants to replace barbarism with law, and keep those who work only for destruction at bay. He is seen, as the last great hope for all that is good.
Clothar is drawn to this man, and together they build a dream too perfect to last--and, with a special woman, they share a love that will nearly destroy them all...
The name of Clothar may be unknown to modern readers, for tales change in the telling through centuries. But any reader will surely know this heroic young man as well as they know the man who became his king. Hundreds of years later, chronicles call Clothar, the Lance Thrower, by a much more common name.
That of Lancelot.
Clothar is a young man of promise. He has been sent from the wreckage of Gaul to one of the few schools remaining, where logic and rhetoric are taught along with battle techniques that will allow him to survive in the cruel new world where the veneer of civilization is held together by barbarism. He is sent by his mentor on a journey to aid another young man: Arthur Pendragon. He is a man who wants to replace barbarism with law, and keep those who work only for destruction at bay. He is seen, as the last great hope for all that is good.
Clothar is drawn to this man, and together they build a dream too perfect to last--and, with a special woman, they share a love that will nearly destroy them all...
The name of Clothar may be unknown to modern readers, for tales change in the telling through centuries. But any reader will surely know this heroic young man as well as they know the man who became his king. Hundreds of years later, chronicles call Clothar, the Lance Thrower, by a much more common name.
That of Lancelot.
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I CANNOT RECALL much about my early childhood, but I have always been grateful, nevertheless, that I survived it, and that the memories of it that remain with me are happy ones, steeped in the eternal sunlight of long, bygone summer days and unaffected by the truths I learned later. Read the first page
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I CANNOT RECALL much about my early childhood, but I have always been grateful, nevertheless, that I survived it, and that the memories of it that remain with me are happy ones, steeped in the eternal sunlight of long, bygone summer days and unaffected by the truths I learned later. Read the first page
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As with all Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, (Dream of Eagles) in canada, The story of "The Lance Thrower" is portrayed in the first person Narative. First Through Publius Varrus in books 1-2 then by Merlyn Britanicus in 3-6. The book Uther, is a seperate book outside the series but very much tied into the story line of the series. In "The Lance Thrower" the new narator is Clothar. We are told before the story begins in a historical reference that modern France was devided into an ethnic split of Franks. Whyte takes the famed friend of Arthur Lancelot and renames him Clothar in this book. The tale is told through his eyes.
As I am not finnished with the book yet I still have a hundred pages or so to go, I cannot tell you anything leading to the ending of the book, nor would I. However I will prepare you that, Clothar leads an excitting young life before his obvious life in Britain. Much like his earlier books, Whyte's historical novel is filled with action, and a fluent story that ties well into the epic tales of king arthur.
As I have enjoyed all of his previous books, especially from a historical perspective, I must say "The lance thrower is a great novel added to the series thus far.
I have rated "The Lance thrower" 4 out of 5 solely because it is in comparison to his other novels which to me are between the 4 and 5 range.
As I am not finnished with the book yet I still have a hundred pages or so to go, I cannot tell you anything leading to the ending of the book, nor would I. However I will prepare you that, Clothar leads an excitting young life before his obvious life in Britain. Much like his earlier books, Whyte's historical novel is filled with action, and a fluent story that ties well into the epic tales of king arthur.
As I have enjoyed all of his previous books, especially from a historical perspective, I must say "The lance thrower is a great novel added to the series thus far.
I have rated "The Lance thrower" 4 out of 5 solely because it is in comparison to his other novels which to me are between the 4 and 5 range.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the eighth of Nine books in The Camulod Chronicles, so I am getting close to the end, and will be so sad when that happens! Each and every book in this series has been fascinating, exciting, adventurous and so very well written. This book introduces us to Lancelot,the whole book tells us his story weaving him seamlessley into the history of the Arthurian legend. The research done for this series must have been phenominal but it has paid off. I can't praise them highly enough, I LOVE THEM.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
An interesting book, but could do with more action and less background detail. Does give some fascinating insights into 5th century Europe.
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