I enjoy reading historical fiction or seeing it in a movie. When I was in the 7th grade it was my

[abqtommy]

first year at a parochial school and in checking out the books in our classroom library I came across
a novel based on a young boy's life as a member of a prehistoric lake pile dwelling located in what we know today as Switzerland. Now I know that the Lake settlements were established between 5,000BC
and 500BC putting them right on the border of acceptable church theology at that time. Oh well, I enjoyed the book and never mentioned it to anybody...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_pile_dwellings_around_Lake_Zurich

The movie Alpha is the latest one I'm enjoying. It's a fictional account of prehistoric tribal life set in
Europe and shows how wolves were domesticated. I won't say any more but I've watched this movie already multiple times and enjoy it each time. I'm seeing the movie on Comcast cable if that helps.

[applegrove]

1. I could not stand historical fiction until i started reading James A. MITCHENER

at 30.

[abqtommy]

5. Michener is one of my favorite authors. I find that reading him is like taking a University-level

course, only more entertaining.

[applegrove]

10. Yes. I just finshed reading Caribbean. Eye opening to say the least. nt

[Kurt V.]

2. thanks. i love historical fiction. clan of the cave bear. the legend of hereward. etc etc

[abqtommy]

6. Oh yeah, I enjoyed reading the Clan Of The Cave Bear series and another book about Romans

by the same author. (McCullough if I remember right. All my life I've enjoyed books.)

[Kurt V.]

8. I, Claudius by Graves is great.

[Aristus]

13. The Clan Of The Cave Bear novels are by Jane Auel.

Colleen McCullough wrote the Masters Of Rome series.

[Jeebo]

3. Probably my favorite novel ever...

...is a historical novel by Wilbur Smith called "River God". It's really long, but just as good as it is long, which means I got very little sleep for a couple of nights in the middle of that work week in about 1994, I think. It's set in ancient Egypt, several centuries before the Egyptians ever heard of Hebrews, horses or chariots. It reads at times like a science fiction novel, which is probably one of the reasons why I enjoyed it so much. It has a lot of that sense of new and discovered things that you get in science fiction, especially science fiction novels dealing with first contact between humans and extraterrestrial civilizations. But the first contact in "River God" is between terrestrial civilizations encountering each other for the first time. And the way their cultures and different levels of technology clash.

-- Ron

[nolabear]

12. I remember that book! I really loved it.

Been YEARS

[LisaM]

4. I read a lot of historical fiction until I was about 18.

Then I started preferring non-fiction, at least as it relates to real characters (I'll still make a few exceptions, especially for stuff like "Wolf Hall&quot .

[abqtommy]

7. That sounds sensible. We all do what we must!

[Karadeniz]

9. I love history, but prefer nonfiction.

[abqtommy]

11. I'm a science fiction fan and I read a good description of how in fiction the author is free to

explore facets of the characters like motivation and other characteristics that ring true to human
nature all the same. (to me) Pure history does have some constraints on the presentation but there's
plenty of good stuff available. It's good to have the freedom to choose!

I remember that in my one year of college I had a history professor who taught at least two sides
of historical facts. I didn't do so well in the class but it was a real eye-opener.

[TuxedoKat]

14. This is my favorite genre too

Haven’t read much pre-historic historical fiction though except Clan of the Cave Bear and a few others. This thread just made me remember a series I started about People living in the Arctic though. Wish I could recall it. All I remember about it was a woman was stolen away from her betrothed, he went looking for her and she was trying to get away back to her people as well.