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Posted by Paul on 29 Oct 2013, 17:52

If it´s half as good as the book...it´ll be excellent
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Posted by Peter on 29 Oct 2013, 20:37

Can you tell something more about the book? i'm interested!
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Posted by Paul on 29 Oct 2013, 20:56

Basically, it´s in the 11th century, a Christian Boy from England, travels across europe to learn about medical practices from the muslims. In one part (hopefully they put it in the film) he works as a Military surgeon in india and helps to heal war elephants. Its a huge book, brilliant Story that covers a span of time, with believable characters and as far as I know, has very few historical innacuracies (probably the film makers will Change that)
Here it is called Der Medicus and is one of the all time Bestsellers in Germany...if you can get a copy...read it. You don´t have to be interested in the period , the Story is great anyway.
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Posted by Peter on 29 Oct 2013, 20:59

And the writer is?
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Posted by Emperor on 30 Oct 2013, 07:11

Interesting...
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Posted by armpcm on 30 Oct 2013, 09:05

Paul,

Thanks for the highlight on this, from you description :love: I will have to read the full story of Dr. Robert Cole :-)

Peter wrote:And the writer is?


Peter the author is Noah Gordon.
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Posted by Benno on 30 Oct 2013, 09:08

Peter wrote:And the writer is?
It's written at the beginning of the trailer Peter. :mrgreen:
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Posted by Peter on 30 Oct 2013, 12:16

Benno wrote:It's written at the beginning of the trailer Peter. :mrgreen:

:shock: :mrgreen:
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