GRR Martin meets Bernard Cornwell

[Jonlion]

http://www.bernardcornwell.net/inter...ge-r-r-martin/

No doubt people have already read this but I hadn't seen it so thought I'd post.

Bernard Cornwell remains my all time favourite author - great seeing these guys talk with such mutual respect.

[Mount Suribachi]

Interesting interview, especially the respect they have for each other, especially considering how in many ways Martin is the anti-Cornwall. BC's books are all written to a cookie-cutter template - they're rip-roaring reads, and fun page-turners, but if you've read one, you've read them all. The hero is a dark and moody outsider, he always gets the girl, and at the end he wins an impossible battle using a crazy tactic.

Whereas Martin, no-one is safe, not even Ned Sharpe Stark.

I did love this quote though, made me proper LOL

I’ve found my fans to be terrific. There’s a miniscule handful who want to nitpick over details and once, on my website, I begged one such reader to please find another author to read.

[Werthead]

Interesting interview, especially the respect they have for each other, especially considering how in many ways Martin is the anti-Cornwall. BC's books are all written to a cookie-cutter template - they're rip-roaring reads, and fun page-turners, but if you've read one, you've read them all. The hero is a dark and moody outsider, he always gets the girl, and at the end he wins an impossible battle using a crazy tactic.

Whereas Martin, no-one is safe, not even Ned Sharpe Stark.

I did love this quote though, made me proper LOL

I think a lot of them are similar - especially the Sharpe books and the Saxon series - but others are very different. In particular, his take on Arthur in The Warlord Chronicles is for me the definitive modern version of the legend.

[Mount Suribachi]

Ah, I've only read (most of) the Sharpes and (all of) the Saxons, as well as Azincourt. I have started reading Stephen Lawhead's Pendragon series, so I might give the Warlord series a bash at a later date and see how they compare.

[Jonlion]

Stonehenge is one of Bernard Cornwell's best as well.

I absolutely love all the books and the history you also learn that inspired me to study it more academically.

I own nearly all his books and haven't turned to the Sharpe series for a while, wonder how they will fare with as I am older.

I think Martin is right though, no one comes near Bernard in describing battle scenes from being right in it to the higher macro view of it