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A review by timwilson
Vikings by Neil Oliver
2.0
Not great. As others have said, too many anecdotes.
It reads like someone ghost wrote this having only watched the TV series. We get long descriptions of him seeing artefacts of archaeological digs, riding a fake longboat, spending the night in a remade viking home. I'm sure that all worked well in a visual medium but not great in a book.
Got more interesting towards the end when we got to actual history and some facts were extraordinary (Vikings in Constantinople!). However, there must be better reads. This is quite a short book but it took a long time to slog through.
It reads like someone ghost wrote this having only watched the TV series. We get long descriptions of him seeing artefacts of archaeological digs, riding a fake longboat, spending the night in a remade viking home. I'm sure that all worked well in a visual medium but not great in a book.
Got more interesting towards the end when we got to actual history and some facts were extraordinary (Vikings in Constantinople!). However, there must be better reads. This is quite a short book but it took a long time to slog through.