Posted in Reviews, Shellabarger, Swashbuckling on December 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The film Captain From Castile is a beautiful first half of a historical epic. The first time I saw it, I hadn’t read the book and yet it was still more than clear that its ending was tacked on, and took place a good deal before the book’s ending would have. What’s more, the movie [...]
Posted in Reviews, Shellabarger, Swashbuckling on December 20, 2007 | No Comments »
“… Not that Pedro de Vargas knew what nerves were, but they still functioned.”
There is something immensely comforting, especially in these colder winter months, about picking up a gigantic, hardbound, historical adventure–about taking that first glance into an era and world and saying “I’m going to be here for awhile.” Knowing that one has a [...]
Posted in Shellabarger, Swashbuckling on November 26, 2007 | No Comments »
So, I just recently started reading Samuel Shellabarger’s Captain From Castile, which I’ve desperately wanted to read for years. Shellabarger is an incredible writer of historical swashbucklers, and the Tyrone Power movie (which the above picture is from) had just the right mix of spectacle, excitement, and an incredibly disappointing ending that left the viewer [...]
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