To Lie with Lions [Audio CD]

Dorothy Dunnett (Author), Christopher Kay (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2009

24 cds 31.25 hours

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Recorded Books (2009)
• ISBN-10: 1436197945
• ISBN-13: 978-1436197946
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,377,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars nicholas lives, December 29, 2000

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jrubi02 "jrubi02" (Chapel Hill) - See all my reviews

This review is from: To Lie with Lions: The Sixth Book of The House of Niccolo (Paperback)

This is an amazing series. At times I think the history is the best part of it - you must stop to check up on Trebizond, or Cyprus, try to untangle what Brugges is, figure out the connection between James III of Scotland and the later Jameses - the 15th century springs to life in Dunnett's hands. And besides the history, Dunnett creates incredible characters, with Nicholas at the center, complex genius that he is. (In what guise does Nicholas live today?) Kathi Sersanders, the lively spirit who best understands him, represents the best of us, admiring and loving, and his son Jodi seems as familiar as all of our own children. Dr Tobias, the doubting and brilliant foil of Nicholas, is a magnificent creation, (and another way to represent the reader at his/her best). Okay, so it's a (long long long) soap opera, but you just can't go wrong: at the end you have Nicholas and his loyal band to dream of, and nearly a whole century of history that you never knew existed. Sign me up for the Dorothy Dunnett tour of the world!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Complex and totally involving, September 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: To Lie with Lions: The Sixth Book of The House of Niccolo (Paperback)

As with all Dorothy Dunnett's books, you need to start at the beginning of the series. If you don't, then "To Lie With Lions" won't make much sense. The personalities with their rich background and convoluted associations won't have any context and the threads that weave backwards, forwards, will just be a tangled mess. But....read in sequence, the unbelieveable complexity, the mystery, the totally involving history of the characters springs to life. I guess it doesn't happen to everyone who reads Ms Dunnett's books - but for me she is numero uno and a lifelong love.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not her best..., January 20, 1998

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Robert I. Katz (Port Jefferson, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: To Lie with Lions (House of Niccolo/Dorothy Dunnett, Vol 6) (Hardcover)

Dorothy Dunnett has been described as the greatest living historical novelist. Maybe she used to be. The author has always had a penchant for melodrama, a penchant which marred her earlier series, the Lymond Chronicles...but this book has gone seriously around the bend. Ms. Dunnett has a forceful prose style, a sure ear for dialogue, a keen descriptive eye and a masterly handle on her characterizations. Her plots are another matter. In To Lie with Lions, the hero, Nicholas de Fleury, survives (purely by luck) at least three separate attempts on his life. His wife and toddler son survive similar attacks, and, again purely by fortuity, Gelis barely escapes seduction by the King of Scotland in a medieval hot-tub (but hey, what's a little serendipity among friends). If all this weren't enough, it seems that Gelis, after having slept with Nicholas' father, after having claimed that Nicholas' son was not his, after having become an agent for his enemies and having conspired for his total financial ruin, was not doing all of this (as had earlier been claimed) for retribution in the belief that Nicholas had seduced and betrayed her sister. No...now it is revealed that Gelis actually felt inferior to her sister and did not think that she could keep Nicholas' love and interest unless she showed him that she was smarter than he was (a real genius, this girl). And then, after betraying the poor lovestruck lunatic in every way possible, she decides that Nicholas is the one who's gone too far (!) because he bankrupt the treasury of Scotland (and incidentally won their little game). She then goes off in a huff to cherish her moral superiority (I bet that'll show him). I've got to admit, I'll probably read the next one, but after this, I don't much care.