Not very good, perhaps, but I very much enjoyed it. ( )

Historical novel about the age of knights. It's relatively fast pacing and interesting but I have a feeling that I would've enjoyed it much more in my teenage years. Now the dated look of life, glorification of war, the blind faith infiltrating the everyday life and treating women as second rate beings just alienating me. ( )

http://speculiction.blogspot.com/2011/09/review-of-teutonic-knights-by-henryk.ht... ( )

İkinci cildini henüz okuma fırsatı bulamadım fakat kitap beklemediğim kadar iyiydi, gereksiz ayrıntılardan sıyrılmış, klişe olmaktan oldukça uzak ve hakkında pek yazılmamış bir zaman dilimi ve coğrafyada geçince bana böyle de gelmiş olabilir pek tabi.
Kitaplarda en sevdiğim üç şey; savaş, saçma olmayan aşk ve tarih (Bir de uzun saçlı taş sarışın erkekleri ekstradan ekliyorum) bir araya gelmiş, bana fazla söz düşmez 5 yıldızı haketti. Asıl aklıma takılan bu kadar muhteşem bir kitap neden en son 1952'de basılır NEDEN! O kadar saçma sapan kitap basılsın bu harika eseri internette bile bulamayayım, tüm kütüphanenin altını üstüne getirsem de bulacağım o ikinci cildi aha da buraya yazıyorum. ( )

This book was a major disappointment. I am a big fan of Sienkiewicz's Trilogy and was excited about the prospect of reading this book which was reputed to be his masterpiece. The plot was plodding and dull and the characters were universally unappealing. The main character was an unattractive humorless numb-skull.

The book abounded in the colorful descriptions of medieval life in Poland which make Sienkiewicz's books so readable. Plus, there is plenty of interesting historical stuff that you didn't know about. However, long descriptions of the scenery were clouded by the knowledge that Sienkiewicz never saw Poland and was mostly making that stuff up. Makes you wonder about how much of the other stuff he made up. But his descriptions of the clothing and customs? I don't think you can make that stuff up, I love it.

My biggest disappointment was the almost total lack of humor. The Trilogy has tons of very funny laugh-out-loud dialogue, characters, and situations. I don't think I so much as chuckled through TTK.

One final point n the book's favor - there are some interesting and strong women in this story who are more than just decoration or baby boy generators (plenty of that, though. Seems like manly men only have male offspring, makes you wonder where the women come from.). They actually play important roles and exert influence in the events.

This book is only for die hard fans. ( )