| The Tudors | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Hirst
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 30385
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 1416947787
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9781416947783
ASIN: 1416947787
Publication Date: December 3, 2007
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 Great Entertainment November 13, 2008
You seem to get so many people criticising the show for it's inaccuricies, but the book/show are great in actually making a part of history fun and interesting again, which makes us strive for more!
The reason i say this is that i am a young person and actually couldn't remember covering this subject at school, but the show was portrayed in such away that it made me want to reasearch the subject further which i am pleased to have now done....
Also the acting is superb, and i believe that Natalie is by far one of the best actresses to portray Anne Boleyn.
Bring on season 3!
Adaptation October 9, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
You all seem to forget that The Tudors is an adaptation!! It doesnt have to be 100% correct as you all seem to think. What is wrong with taking a piece of history and making it exciting and sexy! Have fun with it, enjoy it!
Let's get the balance right October 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The two reviews highlighted as the best of the 'for' and 'against'arguments both make a number of good points. I am usually a stickler for the facts, but this book and TV production is not without some merit. Confusing serious students may be an issue (although they should be up to the challenge!), but if we can engage more young people generally with our history and stop them from switching off at the mere mention of anything that happened more than a week ago, that has to be seen as a little progress - even if it is through a story with numerous historical inaccuracies (and, to be fair, the producers never pretended otherwise!). And in defence of the TV programme, its actors, script and settings did create a real sense of menace and dark forboding throughout the series - which in many ways matched the definitive production with Keith Michele many years ago. We only have to recall the more recent attempts involving the hopelessly mis-cast Ray Winstone to show how wrong it can all go, whether the facts are historically correct or not.
brilliant September 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I could not agree LESS with the reviews claiming this book (and the series itself) to be bad! It is a TV adaptation of the story, the clue is in the wording, it doesn't claim to be a documentary! I agree that the real events were also interesting, but the series is brilliant and I'm completely addicted.
To any teachers who wish to complain, I put it to you that it is your job to teach the actual facts and that children watching and, as a result, believing it all to be factual, may be a strong indication that they were not taught it properly in the first place, rather than a reflection on the TV series. The series has generated tremendous interest in the Tudors and this period in history, particularly with the young, which can only be a positive thing.
The reality is that the vast majority of people are bright enough to realise that TV dramas are not going to be 100% factually accurate, and the vast majority of those DO NOT CARE! The Tudors is watched (and read) for entertainment, and entertaining it definately is!
mint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! May 21, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
this book is absolutly amazing i loved every minute of it!!!! so what if the history wasnt quite accurate acording to you lot? it doesnt claim to be a text book!!!!! like i said amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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