From Every Bitter Thing The Real Story of Guenevere and Lancelot eBook Robert Rice
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From Every Bitter Thing is the story of Guenevere, a woman raised in a matriarchal Pict society who is sacrificed, first to the ambitions of her father, the king, and then to the goals of Arthur, the husband forced upon her by political expedience. In the patriarchal and increasingly Christian society of post-Roman Britain, Guenevere is determined to set her own spiritual course, a course made infinitely more difficult when she falls in love with Lancelot, the peasant mercenary whom she has hired to protect her. Her quest is not to unify England or discover the Holy Grail but to find freedom to follow her own life’s path.
A character-driven drama, From Every Bitter Thing views the often-misunderstood story of Guenevere through a historical lens, but is also a winning tale of heroism, glory, and romance. What gives the story contemporary resonance is its concern, albeit low-keyed, for more transcendental themes in a world as much spiritually as physically under threat. More than just another reenactment of the usual King Arthur legend, From Every Bitter Thing is a spellbinding account of a world teetering on a new dark age.
From Every Bitter Thing The Real Story of Guenevere and Lancelot eBook Robert Rice
Rice delivers masterfully again in his new book, From Every Bitter Thing. In the start of the book you feel as though you have been transported to the time of Guenevere and Lancelot, such is Rice's command of intertwining historical fact with intriguing plots that can only carry you further away into this story of betrayal, moral abdication, and muscle tensing intrigue.Though the story is told from Guenevere's own eyes (the eyes of a amazingly competent, courageous, and calculable woman), the ability of Rice to make the characters come alive, leaves you with new acquaintances at the end of the book and a completely different way to interpret one of the most famous Arturian legends
I would have to say my favorite character was Lancelot, maybe me being a guy and wanting to subliminally connect with male bravado in stories has something to do with it; however, it is more to do with Rice's completely new facet of Lancelot's character that truly gripped me. A far step away from the Lancelot that Richard Gere played in First Night, Rice's Lancelot reads like the soldier mercenary you always imagined when you were as young kid slaying dragons in the back yard. His lack of "knightly chivalries" allows for Lancelot to become a character more real than I have ever seen him portrayed before, with his imperfections making him darkly intriguing and an absolute joy to read.
I thoroughly commend Rice on this story which should be next to any prolific "roundtable" tale and urge anyone who enjoys reading about Arturian legend to buy this book, not only for themselves, but for their friends as well.
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From Every Bitter Thing The Real Story of Guenevere and Lancelot eBook Robert Rice Reviews
Finally! A rendering that makes sense of the Guenevere and Lancelot story.
Not that of a faithless queen and a foresworn trusted knight, but a tale of cultural differences and understandings running counter to each other. Of old beliefs pitted against new and of kingdom skirmishes and territorial grabs.
The story of Guenevere, a pict priestess and a King's daughter and Lancelot her mercenary champion, chosen from before her political marriage to Arthur. Their relationship set against pict women's rights and practices give rise to the many misunderstandings about the triangle of Guenevere, Arthur and Lancelot a different focus. But first there was Lancelot.
Guenevere is a woman used and a woman betrayed. Arthur is the High King seeking a dream, it seems at any cost. Beyond that is a story of love and betrayal that had the power to bring this reader to tears.
A NetGalley ARC
Who doesn't love Arthurian legend? But to be honest, Guenevere has been little more than a plot device. Need a marriage to cement a political alliance? Cue Guenevere. Saintly figure to inspire the knights of the Round Table? Cue Guenevere. Weak link to bring down Camelot? Cue Guenevere. Exit to a nunnery, stage right.
Rice writes what it must have been like to be the proud, powerful, passionate woman forced into that marriage--forced to surrender her own culture and power within that culture to act out the role that suited Arthur and his advisors.
I like Rice's Lancelot just as much, maybe more--not a noble knight, but a mercenary who has clawed his way out of the dirt. An absolute equal to Guenevere. These two vigorously real people inevitably run head-on into Arthur's high-minded version of the future. Cue fireworks.
From my own (limited) knowledge, Rice's research seems sound, but he never beats the reader over the head with it. You really will tear your way through From Every Bitter Thing.
I downloaded the free sample of From Every Bitter Thing during the gap between morning coverage and afternoon coverage of the Olympics, sure an hour was plenty of time to decide if the book were worth reading. Hah! It only took a few minutes to know it was worth reading, but seven hours before I could put it down. After all, there’ll be another Olympics long before someone writes another book this good.
As soon as you see the cover you know this won’t be about the wimpy blond Guenevere who’s just a foil for macho male exploits. But that’s not always a good thing -- very few male writers can make me believe I’m really hearing a woman’s thoughts. Those characters all end up being just more men, except with boobs.
Rice makes me feel that I’m inside Guenevere, living this story, this lifetime, with her. And she is the Guenevere I would love to know personally, a whole woman, smart and strong and brave but intensely female. She has a career. And Lancelot, what a guy Rice didn’t succumb to the trap of making Lancelot a wimp because Guenevere is powerful. Rice’s characters are not one-dimensional. It’s impossible to hate any of them… well, one for sure.
The many times told Arthur/Guenevere/Lancelot legend is exciting, heroic, dramatic, dangerous, deeply romantic, tragic – Rice leaves out none of this. But his book gives me something I’ve never felt after other versions – I believe in these people, my heart goes out to them. He’s convinced me I think they really existed.
Rice delivers masterfully again in his new book, From Every Bitter Thing. In the start of the book you feel as though you have been transported to the time of Guenevere and Lancelot, such is Rice's command of intertwining historical fact with intriguing plots that can only carry you further away into this story of betrayal, moral abdication, and muscle tensing intrigue.
Though the story is told from Guenevere's own eyes (the eyes of a amazingly competent, courageous, and calculable woman), the ability of Rice to make the characters come alive, leaves you with new acquaintances at the end of the book and a completely different way to interpret one of the most famous Arturian legends
I would have to say my favorite character was Lancelot, maybe me being a guy and wanting to subliminally connect with male bravado in stories has something to do with it; however, it is more to do with Rice's completely new facet of Lancelot's character that truly gripped me. A far step away from the Lancelot that Richard Gere played in First Night, Rice's Lancelot reads like the soldier mercenary you always imagined when you were as young kid slaying dragons in the back yard. His lack of "knightly chivalries" allows for Lancelot to become a character more real than I have ever seen him portrayed before, with his imperfections making him darkly intriguing and an absolute joy to read.
I thoroughly commend Rice on this story which should be next to any prolific "roundtable" tale and urge anyone who enjoys reading about Arturian legend to buy this book, not only for themselves, but for their friends as well.
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