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Recommendation request: Medieval Adventures (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by oktux@beehaw.org to c/fiction

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Looking for book recommendations.

Something exciting and lighthearted, set in the Middle Ages or Renaissance, in the vein of The Princess Bride, Robin Hood, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,, or the movie A Knight's Tale.

What are your favorites? Thanks!

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[–] Deadlytosty@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I dont know if this really fits what you are looking for, but we had a Dutch writer called Thea Beckman who wrote the book Crusade in jeans (kruistocht in spijkerbroek). No clue if it was translated, and if it isnt too teensy, but I liked it when I was younger. It is about a boy from our time being sent back to the medieval times, and how he had to deal with the crusade he found there.

[–] oktux@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds right up my alley, and it looks like there's a translation and a movie! Thanks!

[–] Deadlytosty@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Skip the movie! It is a horrible attempt to make it cooler. All of a sudden he is a prof football (soccer) player and they get many details wrong. It was a horrible watch for me :p

[–] oktux@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Haha okay thanks for the heads up!