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Title: Twaddle
Review: The only good (and lucid) portions of this plotless, characterless, poorly written novel are the portions the author plagiarized from A.M. Maugham's Harry of Monmouth, John Cowper Powys's Owen Glendower, and H.F. Hutchinson's Henry the Fifth. The rest of it, the author's creation, is so bad it's almost funny: a character who has eyes "UNDER high cheekbones" is also able to ride a ways, relating the sad tale of an early love, while carrying an arrow through his upper arm. Another character, on the eve of Agincourt, listens to the king relating the sad tale of an early love. Other such choice moments abound. Save your time and read Harry of Monmouth and Owen Glendower -- they're light-years above this idiotic twaddle. And did the author..... really ... have ... to use all..... those ..... ellipses ...? ...This would get a negative star, if that were an option.
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