KING ARTHUR / The Best Arthurian Novels-Series You Can Read.

[@RedFuryBooks]

The Bernard Cornwell Warlord Chronicles is masterful. One of my favorite books series ever.

[@perrinayebarra]

Those Jack Whyte books really captivated me as a young man. One of the few series I’ve reread.

[@GardnerGoldsmith]

I'm SO glad you talked about Jack Whyte! I discovered "Skystone" when I worked in Vancouver circa 1996, and it just grabbed me! He really did a great job working within the post-Roman era and expanding the narrative to let the reader really get an epic saga!

[@shawnturpin197]

I loved the Pendragon Cycle. One of the best series of any kind I've read.

[@ryan12478]

i just finished the warlord chronicles i loved it

[@UncleMonk23]

The Mary Stewart series actually has a 5th book entitled The Prince and the Pilgrim…

[@Plantlady70]

Just ordered it. Thanks.

[@acepc2]

I just finished the Powder Mage Trilogy and I have no idea what to read next! :( I really love dark fantasy and Arthurian legends though. I'm looking for a solid new series I can sink my teeth in to. You have provided many incredible options. Thank you so much for uploading this video!

[@jobuckley2999]

It is incredible that you have been able to keep all the books you have read since high school and maybe before. Very cool. I forgot I read the Mary Stewart series decades ago. They were really good. Also I am sure you read Lois L'Amours book on King Author.

[@kunalkksachdev]

Lancelot and Camelot by Giles Kristian is also dope version of King Arthur tales.

[@hsmith4263]

I just picked up your copy of The Forgetting Moon from the Monroe Library, and I gotta say, amazing work so far man

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

Monroe Utah??

[@hsmith4263]

@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS Yeah, my mom grew up here and we just came back a few years ago

[@dazbry7612]

Ahh i need to read those stephen r lawhead books 😮👍

[@carenome1]

I never noticed you great tattoo on your right bicep! Very nice. Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve.

[@landon_woods-of-yore]

Loved the video Brian. Out of these King Arthur books, I've just read The Once and Future King, and The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. I greatly enjoyed them both.

[@RoyceMusic333]

Thank you for sharing. You did miss Chretian de Troy with Knight of the Kart, and more King Arthur tales translated from French.

[@padfoot0422]

This is awesome! I was just looking up the best Arthur books to read

[@taahakashif8327]

Hello! Brian I just wanted to know when is third book in the Five Warrior Angels coming out?

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

Next year

[@CornerTalker]

I have the Howard Pyle "Robin Hood" - excellent stuff.

[@RafaelToscano]

The question now is: should I start with Pendragon cycle or with Jack Whyte’s books? :)

[@sonic31century1]

The first King Arthur book I ever read was Merlin's Mirror by Andre Norton. It is worth reading.

[@sonic31century1]

The second King Arthur book I have read is Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger. This is my favorite version of the story.

[@JoelAdamson]

Morte D'Arthur, I believe, was written in Middle English. So the versions you and I have read are likely 17th-18th century translations into early Modern English.

[@Dylankiwi1]

Looking at Wikipedia ( which yeah not the most reliable source) Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, ungrammatical[1] Middle French for "The Death of Arthur") is a 15th-century Middle English prose reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table-along with their respective folklore. In order to tell a "complete" story of Arthur from his conception to his death, Malory compiled, rearranged, interpreted and modified material from various French and English sources. Today, this is one of the best-known works of Arthurian literature. Many authors since the 19th-century revival of the legend have used Malory as their principal source. ( Wiki) As Elizabeth Bryan wrote of Malory's contribution to Arthurian legend in her introduction to a modern edition of Le Morte d'Arthur, "Malory did not invent the stories in this collection; he translated and compiled them. Malory in fact translated Arthurian stories that already existed in 13th-century French prose (the so-called Old French Vulgate romances) and compiled them together with Middle English sources (the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur) to create this text." ( Wiki) So yeah your correct, seem to be a translation and reworking of the original story with many sources.

[@nicholastaylor9687]

Sean Bane 🤔 i heard he was born in the darkness, moulded by it. He was already a man grown by the time he saw the sun and by then it was... BLINDING

[@LiamsLyceum]

Never heard of that last one. Sadly I’m not too well read on Arthurian stuff, but one of my favorites I have read was Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff.

[@philipmarsh2172]

Literally finished Sword at Sunset just yesterday. It’s a gem of a book. I think I had something in my eye at the end.

[@CornerTalker]

before viewing: I'm hoping this will help me decide from amongst: Sir Thomas Mallory Sidney Lanier's adaptation of Mallory Roger Lancelyn Green Andrew Lang or some other version

[@CornerTalker]

Not what I was expecting, but entertaining and informative. I like that you include cover art and design in your reviews.

[@Mabelalicantu]

Where did u buy the books ?

[@BrightLord1823]

Hey could you review chronicles of an imperial officer by Marc Alen edelheit great fantasy series based off of the Roman empire

[@therenegadebard3971]

The Singing Sword? Better hide it before Yosemite Sam catches you. :) Wonder if anyone will get the reference?

[@sgtNUKEtroop]

Arthur was from the North , check out " Arthur of the Gododdin " , be well , Mike

[@AliceBowlly]

I've never seen anyone so concerned about whether the covers matched. I don't see how it could possibly matter, especially if the story is good. Just seems very materialistic and shallow.

[@philipmarsh2172]

Brian, I respect you and all, but I could never read Marion Zimmer Bradley. Because of the “controversy.”