PHILIPPA GREGORY -- THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL -- BOOK VIDEO

From www.BookVideos.tv - When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her family¹s ambitious plots as the king¹s interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her sister, Anne. Then Mary knows that she must defy her family and her king, and take her fate into her own hands. Philippa Gregory is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including The Other Boleyn Girl and The Boleyn Inheritance. A writer and broadcaster for radio and television, she lives in England. She welcomes visitors and messages at her website.

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[BroadwayLover787]

I loooooooove her books!

[hazelstears]

love her books very intresting, but not very historically accurate. She takes ALOT of liberties

[HistoryLover1550]

'The Other Boleyn Girl' is one of my fave books ever, I can't wait to start gregory's other Tudor novels plus the 'Cousin's War' series!

[litesexyboy]

Philippa Gregory is a great historical romance writer....i loooooooove her novels...they r some of the best that I have read aside from books in the Oprah Book Club and other miscellaneous books....the book was not trashy it was/is GREAT!!

[iluvwinterweather]

I hated the way Anne was portrayed in the novel, and when the movie came out the story became really popular and everyone wanted to know how I could like Anne Boleyn...not because of the mistakes the real Anne actually made, but rather how the fictional Anne behaved. And believe me, no one really cared when I actually tried to explain the Tudor period to them. That being said, I do actually applaud Philippa Gregory for shining a light on little-known Mary. I just wish she could've been accurate.

[verobinful]

Philippa Gregory is full of paradoxe. She supposes to be a "feminist", and always takes positions for the women....So i don't really understand her attitud with Ann Boleyn, (a woman who took her destiny into her hand). But instead of protect her character, Gregory speaks about her in a very bad manner...as a jealous finally/

[verobinful]

@TheFreeSpiritX agreed. Philippa Gregory have a great problem with Ann Boleyn. She was totally obsseded by her, (we can see that in the book "the wise woman", a romance dating on 1536....What a coincidence!.). "The other boleyn girl" is a very very bad book. I was so dissapointed when i rode it/ And as you say, she knows nothing about the TUDORS.

[livipotter]

@nineislands108 i love robin maxwell, are you saying his work is bad too? i thought it was pretty good....

[nineislands108]

As an amateur Tudor history buff, I was appalled by the gratuitous nonsense passing for fact in this terrible excuse for a novel. They say water finds its own level, so of course some people will like her writing, but please. If you are the least interested in historical fiction, at least read Robin Maxwell. I guess it wasn't enough that Henry wrongly did Anne in with a sword, Gregory had to finish her off with a hatchet job of her own. Bad writing style also.

[TheWickedVampire]

i agree and disagree with some of the comments, yes the fact side of the book is very wrong and non exsistant at times, i do think, that becuase mary is a lesser known figure is history, that does give gregory some creative leaverage. but i do think she should have kept to the facts a bit more, but i suppose if you're just reading the book for enjoyment and not for a school project, it doesn't really matter.

[lilanma]

@missligi I have indeed done research on this period. I appreciate your opinion as well, but the problem is that Philippa Gregory goes contrary to well-documented occurrences and evidence that we have of this era. If it were her imagination that created "fill ins", it would not be the problem. Not only this, but Gregory presents her work as complete fact and disregards any other evidence or opinions. It is Gregory's attitude towards actual scholarship of the period that is unsettling.

[missligi]

@lilanma i'm sorry, but did you ever made research of that story? Because it happened hundreds of years ago, so, nobody exactly knows what really happened in that time. As far as i can see, she can be wrong or right in her book, as all the other writers of this theme...

P.S - I'm not insulting you, i respect your opinion....