Ed West (1) (1978–)
Auteur de Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Ed West, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Séries
Œuvres de Ed West
Saxons vs. Vikings: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages (A Very, Very Short History of England) (2017) 58 exemplaires
1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England (2017) 57 exemplaires
1215 and All That: Magna Carta and King John (A Very, Very Short History of England) (2015) 36 exemplaires
My Kingdom for a Horse: The War of the Roses (A Very, Very Short History of England) (2018) 31 exemplaires
England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases: The Hundred Years' War and Black Death (A Very, Very… (2018) 28 exemplaires
The Path of the Martyrs: Charles Martel, The Battle of Tours and the Birth of Europe (2018) 11 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1978-01-26
- Sexe
- male
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Professions
- journalist
author - Relations
- Kenny, Mary (mother)
West, Richard (father)
West, Patrick (brother)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Membres
- 368
- Popularité
- #65,433
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 48
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 1
The only reason I even attempted to read this book was to see how bad the train wreck was going to be. There will never be a train or train track here ever again. It was bad. It was beyond bad. If I were to go further with this I would be insulting the reader and wasting good words on junk.
First, the writing. Okay, it wasn't writing. It was a bad comedy act in print. Or an editorial hit piece against history. No, just a really bad comedy act trying too hard to be funny. You don't need to treat history as a subject that everyone hates and so the author decides to make it interesting by treating it as if everything was really just a punch line waiting to happen.
Two, well more on the writing, somewhat. History texts deal with, well, I don't know, history. At least, I thought so. I could be wrong. And that involves quoting sources, listing sources in a bibliography, stating facts, and if starting opinions, backing them up with support and quotes. And dealing with actual history, that's a big one. This was a giant book report on books the author read that he combined together and called it a book.
Three, I gave up on this book. It was just horrible. I just wanted to throw it across the room at all the snotty assumptions and lack of citations. It was giving me a headache.
All in all: DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. Save your money or the trip to the library. There are better books out there about this time in English history. Remember: just because you read a history book does not make you a historian.… (plus d'informations)