false <![CDATA[The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166115529m/10108.jpg 10108 13 Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas ore; who sacked the monasteries; who longed for a son and neglected his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth; who finally grew fat, disease-ridden, dissolute. Now, in her magnificent work of storytelling and imagination Margaret George bring us Henry VIII's story as he himself might have told it, in memoirs interspersed with irreverent comments from his jester and confident, Will Somers. Brilliantly combining history, wit, dramatic narrative, and an extraordinary grasp of the pleasures and perils of power, this monumental novel shows us Henry the man more vividly than he has ever been seen before. 2505877 1986 The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers total:1736|5:706|4:672|3:307|2:41|1:10| 1736 7231 2655 236 3 7 false false Fri Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 07:23:39 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 14:34:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 5 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 29 13:09:40 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 01 15:34:53 -0800 2008
After years of seeing Henry portrayed ...more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Tue Apr 01 19:20:25 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 19:30:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 11:17:42 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 17:13:29 -0700 2009
Margaret George said she wanted to give King Henry better PR. She failed totally.
The plot was (naturally?) given over to his various wives/political schemes, but in 900 pages George really,...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jan 14 09:33:40 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 09:34:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 04:46:39 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 23 13:25:39 -0800 2007
It talks of his youth. His marriage to Katherine of Aragon. Anne Bol...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 07:12:08 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 07:17:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Dec 12 12:36:32 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 12:36:32 -0800 2008 Langatmige Geschichtsstunde

Dieses Buch ist das (fiktive) Tagebuch des als Blaubart in die Geschichte eingegangenen englischen Herrschers. Besonders witzig fand ich die Idee, dazu noch Anmerkungen des Hofnarren einzuflechten um dem ganzen einen kritischeren Touch zu geben. Die großen Vo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 16 07:02:35 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 08:41:20 -0700 2009
The Autobiography of Henry VIII was very well researched and a great reminder that there was a young Henry VIII, not just the overweight, pompous jerk that most...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 19:01:07 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 19:18:42 -0700 2009
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All that is to say I am a devotee of historic fiction, and I thought Antonia Fraser had captured the...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 05:29:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 11:18:07 -0700 2009 "I'm Henry VIII, I am, I'm Henry VIII I am, I am!"

Wow! There's never a dull moment with old Henry. Teenage King, always warring with France, cuts ties with Rome and changes the course of history just so he can get a divorce, six wives - two have their heads lopped off, one di...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 20 18:56:20 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 19:15:32 -0800 2008 once more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 20:05:45 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 20:20:27 -0700 2007 1 0 false false Sat Jan 31 08:31:57 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 09:14:11 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 27 10:57:43 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 09:07:30 -0800 2009
This book has to be one of the best things I've read about tudor England. I loved that the book was written like an 'autobiography' by Henry himself. I feel like I have a much better understanding of what he went through during the many years of his reign. I was also very impressed w...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 16:02:11 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 10:39:46 -0700 2008 The Autobiography of King Henry VIII is an outstanding read. The story is written as a journal of Henry's passed on to his illegitimate daughter, Catherine Carey.

This book is different from any other Tudor book I've read and I particularly enjoyed receiving the perspective of King Henry...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 08:16:07 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 13:15:22 -0700 2008
This book is actually really funny at times, when there's no beheading going on. He's like the first metrosexual.

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This book made me see the man behind the cr...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=10108