tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211353948967221274.post3704889809358063170..comments2024-03-28T13:40:22.969+00:00Comments on Crinoline Robot: On authenticity / Never Cross A Vampire [books]Mimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01578612522819952936noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211353948967221274.post-14644192013134657492013-03-24T16:13:17.222+00:002013-03-24T16:13:17.222+00:00Oh excellent. Beastly Flashy is a favourite of min...Oh excellent. Beastly Flashy is a favourite of mine.Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01578612522819952936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211353948967221274.post-50402175273246197072013-03-20T13:31:48.822+00:002013-03-20T13:31:48.822+00:00'The Pyrates' by George MacDonald Fraser, ...'The Pyrates' by George MacDonald Fraser, the same man who wrote the tremendous Flashman Chronicles.Melaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12238571735302117986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211353948967221274.post-30725920438456570872013-03-12T13:55:40.673+00:002013-03-12T13:55:40.673+00:00Me too! It's why I can't read Conn Iggulde...Me too! It's why I can't read Conn Iggulden's Caesar books; I love a bit of Roman history but he pays sod-all attention to history.Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01578612522819952936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211353948967221274.post-24427628236149303762013-03-12T13:55:06.952+00:002013-03-12T13:55:06.952+00:00Oooh, what's the book? I love a good swashbuck...Oooh, what's the book? I love a good swashbuckler.Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01578612522819952936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211353948967221274.post-3042036612789460662013-03-12T13:54:50.032+00:002013-03-12T13:54:50.032+00:00I get annoyed by 'vintage' things that are...I get annoyed by 'vintage' things that are nothing like people would have used/done in the past. I sometimes tell myself that it's being used in a vintage-as-subculture sense, but then half those things have nothing to do with the vintage subculture either. (I am currently loathing 'vintage weddings' for precisely this reason!)Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01578612522819952936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211353948967221274.post-70213177822195362772013-03-12T13:53:29.538+00:002013-03-12T13:53:29.538+00:00I really admire people who do the full-on one-era ...I really admire people who do the full-on one-era thing, but it's not for me! Too much discipline required to leave things out...Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01578612522819952936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211353948967221274.post-4260673596764928972013-03-12T13:20:46.842+00:002013-03-12T13:20:46.842+00:00I do like films to be historically accurate, I hat...I do like films to be historically accurate, I hate it when they change real events to suit a story. Miss Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10899889154015378547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211353948967221274.post-33791914455191617252013-03-12T11:56:01.394+00:002013-03-12T11:56:01.394+00:00I think people tend to look to the past with rose ...I think people tend to look to the past with rose tinted glasses and create an idealised authenticity.<br />One of my favourite authors, someone who absolutely knows his thing, wrote a book set during the golden age of piracy but then purposely threw in all sorts of things which plainly were not of the time; it made it all the more fun that the inaccuracies were so obvious.Melaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12238571735302117986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211353948967221274.post-81143432635248903112013-03-12T09:44:26.828+00:002013-03-12T09:44:26.828+00:00There would be no way I would want to give up the ...There would be no way I would want to give up the freedoms I have now or the technology/advances in medicine. But, in the same breath - I like to think about the past for it's simplicity and manners.<br /><br />As for "authentic" - I cannot bare the slapping of "vintage" on things (which is why i tend to say I am retro)LandGirl1980https://www.blogger.com/profile/09549128222449333173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7211353948967221274.post-2215566780577133722013-03-12T07:56:13.246+00:002013-03-12T07:56:13.246+00:00Yeah I find 'authentic' a bit odd. It seem...Yeah I find 'authentic' a bit odd. It seems to be a re-created authentic too... sometimes hyper-real (such as the insistence every women wore skirts and full make up everyday when many worked in factories wearing overalls, and would save their make up for the odd night out).Perdita Tinselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01741015473009270250noreply@blogger.com