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    <body><![CDATA[This was a loaner from a London friend, and my first introduction to &quot;mythic fantasy&quot;.  I found it fascinating and compelling.<br/><br/>Very quickly, the story surrounds a family in Britain, c. end of WWI, and their interactions with the strange, ancient woodland on their property.  Like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57596584">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perusing through the reviews here and on Amazon, it sounds like subsequent books in Holdstock's Mythago Cycle don't measure up to this first book in the series – which is a real disappointment, since <em>Mythago Wood</em> fired on all cylinders for me.  I loved the blend of mythology and the real world, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44417462">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting, weird. Definitely a guy story--for one thing the romance doesn't work for me at all--and, both because the main character is an adult, and because of some mature subject matter, I would say a fantasy for adults, not teens. Interesting use of archetype/myth; I felt slung  into the realm ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39129623">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a peculiar book.<br/><br/>I read this when it first came out, which means I was about 9 or 10, and didn't understand it at all, although I remember that I really, really liked the ending.  Reading it now, I have the oddest push-pull with it; I want to push it away because the narrative voice ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38950378">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After his post-WWI convalescence in France, Steven Huxley is returning to his family's home on the edge of Ryhope Wood, a patch of ancient forest, in Britain. For as long as Steven remembers, his father, who recently died, had been so obsessed with the forest that it destroyed their family.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51014920">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book once before, years ago, and didn't really remember it. It turned out to be a good book for me to read because I'm interested in telling a story that uses some historical documents as part of the telling. In looking more closely at how this book was structured, especially with the jo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75173338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first (explicit) fantasy novel and I think it's just not my genre. I enjoyed big parts of it, especially in the first half of the book, but towards the ending (during the entire final quest) I had to force myself to read on. I liked the idea of a magical forest that's much bigger than it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70716289">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is really a 3.5.  I know there's discussion about adding 1/2 stars to ratings, but I don't see an option here.  I was going to give it 4, but it seems that since I'm decent at picking books to read that I'll enjoy, *everything* is coming out 4 stars :).<br/><br/>This is an incredibly original...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57595669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Mythago Wood</em> (pronounced mith-AH-go) came highly recommended, but I found the rotting forest setting of this contemporary English fantasy claustrophobic. The protagonist, &quot;Steve&quot; is not developed beyond a revenge quest avatar.  <br/><br/>The story has an interesting premise: When Steve H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70913807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have no words for how fantastic, bizarre, creepy and wonderful this book is. I wish I'd read it forever ago and I wish I could read it again for the first time. It is just so furiously, yet elegantly, inventive. I'm terrified and madly in love with it all at the same time.<br/><br/>I kind of wan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78647807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Steven and Christian grew up with a father obsessed by the woods near their house. They were never sure why, all they knew was that he was always very distant from his family. <br/><br/>The story begins in full when Steven has returned from WWI to find that his father has died, and his brother Chr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27391187">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ce roman nous emmène à la suite du narrateur, fraîchement revenu de la guerre, aux confins d’une étrange forêt anglaise. Et bien sûr, l’inattendu déboule. Avec ce roman, j’ai voyagé dans une forme de réçit assez ancienne, mais subtilement renouvellée. En fait, l’histoire m’a pro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26192900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The plot for this book was pretty good, but the plot overtook the book. The characters had absolutely no depth, we don't know why they do what they do. I often prefer character development (which was non existant in this novel) to plot development, so I didn't enjoy most of this book. I give it thre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70783759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The father becomes a myth figure first.  The brother becomes the destroyer.  The hero must and does kill this destroyer – his brother – whom he loves very much.  The girl the hero loves is gone, a sort of dead, and he must wait for her to return.  <br/><br/>It’s hauntingly sad and beautifull...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43499783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books of all times and have read it twice.  It's fantasy, adventure, romance and mystery all rolled up into one.  It's one of those books that intrigues you, has you at the edge of your seat and thrills you.  And at the end I had a warm glow and goosebumps.  It's about thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13684326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74232429">
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't really taken with this book, but my wife (who passed away recently) loved it. I list it here in her honer. Where I found it slightly wandering and lacking focus, she saw beautiful prose. So you might try it. I admit it has a certain &quot;feel&quot; and &quot;voice&quot; it just didn't reac...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For some reason I have never read anything else by Holdstock, but this is such an extraordinary book I can't understand why...<br/><br/>The central idea - a world that is sort of a mirror to and well-spring of our own many myth cycles - is very clever, and the understated way the story gradually d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28340101">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44284115">
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    <body><![CDATA[Pomezí sci-fi, fantasy a hororu.<br/>Co jsou mýty? Kde se vzaly a jak se uchovávají v paměti lidstva? Byla dřív událost a nebo mýtus sám?<br/>Pozoruhodná kniha s překvapivým koncem. Jedním slovem wow! (Jedna hvězdička dolů za velmi obtížně čtivou první část.)]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 1988</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I approached this fantasy novel as a possible instantiation of C.G. Jung's archetypes of the collective unconscious theory and perhaps that is what it is.  I was disappointed, however, to find so much fantasy and so little concern with what fantasy might mean and entail.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was recommended to me as being as good as Tolkien in creating an alternative, internally consistent and convincing world.  I was a little disappointed, but maybe the standard is unreachably high.  The writing is good.  You can feel, see, and smell the wood around you.  But it's populated with a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63790965">more...</a>]]></body>
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