7/6/2023 0 Comments Legend by David GemmellHe wrote what was then tentatively titled The Siege of Dros Delnoch as a way of taking his mind off his illness but the fatalism and the exploration of the meaning of human life that runs strongly throughout the narrative is no doubt influenced by his state of mind at the time. Legend was David Gemmell's first published novel, which he began writing in 1976 when he believed himself to be suffering from a terminal illness (he was misdiagnosed). Some Gemmell books I read as a teenager and so I was interested in seeing whether my now older, more cynical self, could derive the same amount of pleasure experienced all those years ago. For the past 25 years his books have been read and re-read and I am still not weary of them, and I hope that will always be the case. David Gemmell is unquestionably one of my favourite fantasy authors.
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