Yes ... well, TV adaptation ... that says it all. I do recall some violence in the book but it was not in too graphic detail.

We (I keep saying that, the other part of "we" is my wife Yvonne) ... will probably be reading Fall of Giants too as we travel to UK. It will be a good one to pass the time at airports

Yeah, I think we got a very "Dublin-centric" tour. Next time perhaps we should just rent a car and go where we please. Neither of the books had anything good to say about the English, perhaps we should be looking for other authors. We have quite enjoyed World Without End and Pillars of the...

Hello Esoldra, As I said in my original Post it was his books on Ireland that prompted us to go there. Our next trip to Ireland was because we loved the country although we saw only Londonderry in Northern Ireland. Did you find any howlers in The Rebels or The Princes similar to the ridiculous error...

I think you are being too kind to him and his editors and publisher. In the chapter I refer to he was expounding on the Erie Canal so he had to know that Lake Erie is hundreds of feet higher than Lake Ontario. If we allow for the author to mistakenly transpose the names of the two lakes, however, I ...

I do not subscribe to book clubs but I hope I can learn here how to bring a really stupid error to the attention of Edward Rutherfurd or his publishers or editors. In the chapter called Niagara, on pages 356-357 of this book he has Lake Ontario emptying, over Niagara Falls, into Lake Erie! My wife a...