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  <title><![CDATA[The Once and Future King]]></title>
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  <default-description>This book is the magical epic of King Arthur and his shining Camelot; of Merlin and Owl and Guinevere; of beasts who talk and men who fly, of wizardry and war. It is the book of all things lost and wonderful and sad. </default-description>
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 16 10:56:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seriously, how do you review the pinnacle of all fantasy? You can argue with me, but that, in my opinion, is what The Once and Future King is. Sure, the evil enchantresses are stout and grumpy, the magical castles are made out of food, the lily maids are fat and of a certain age, and the knights in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24625178">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book terrified me, on many levels. It's 667 pages long, to begin with. It's been a while since I read a serious chunkster like that (besides Harry Potter, which somehow in my mind doesn't really count...).<br/><br/>Besides that, I am just not a fan of &quot;Authur&quot; stories, despite my de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23617310">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 17 06:22:51 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book about every two years.  It is one of my absolute favorites.  The stories and the characters are so well-crafted that I can read it over-and-over time and again with just as much pleasure as the first time.<br/>This novel is actually divided into four 'books' within itself, and whil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12739155">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is easy to forget that the fantasy genre does have other giants besides Tolkien.  T.H. White is such a person.  If you want a literary step up from the popcorn fantasy out there give this book a try.<br/><br/>This book is divided into four books.  They all go together but they are also all diff...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18526201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29340355">
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  <read_at>Sat May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really didn't get what I expected out of this book, which I always thought was a serious retelling of the King Arthur legend. I mean, it is that. Eventually. But it's strangely paced and the work's tone follows this odd arc across its four books that put me off.<br/><br/>The first book, &quot;Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29340355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27464352">
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Xavier &amp; Magneto]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 16 16:19:39 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just last week I finished one of the greatest books I have ever read.  The Once &amp; Future King by T.H. White.<br/><br/>I had never heard of the book until it was mentioned in Bryan Singer's X-Men movies.  Xavier talks about it with his students and Magneto can be seen reading it while in his plasti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27464352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21856271">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1987</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this when i was a little kid, and have kept rereading it for years.  i just love this book.  each section is written in prose that suits the time of life of arthur.  the sword and the stone is filled with fun and magic and little adventures, perfectly suited to the life of the child.  the mid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21856271">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12017127">
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 08 17:58:11 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I carried a quote from this book around in my purse for decades. In my original version of the book, it is on page 111 and begins, &quot;The best thing for being sad,&quot; replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, &quot;is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12017127">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46631204">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite novel of all time. It's a great fantasy and the character development is wonderful. I love how the story starts with a young Arthur and is a more childish fun story, but it ages with Arthur himself and becomes more bittersweet.<br/><br/>Best of all is that I have had this book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46631204">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29037520">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1965</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bored with school books, I asked Dad which of his books he'd recommend.  Looking up at his shelves above the desk in a living room nook, he listed Robert Graves' novels, Charles Beard's histories and T. H. White's The Once and Future King.  Beard was college reading for him, the kind of book his own...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29037520">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28585052">
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 28 23:10:12 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good, but somehow it almost completely robbed all the romance from the story. Also, I noticed a lot of things happened differently in this story than I remember happening. <br/><br/>Here are some passages that stood out to me:<br/><br/>&quot;For her, hoever, as for all women, the dreads w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28585052">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24810783">
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    <body><![CDATA[It's an astonishing book, really. White seamlessly connects the 20th century with the Middle Ages; the anachronisms are surprising in his use of them, but they don't break the fabric of the narrative. It does of course have slow patches, but even the slow patches had their brilliance. My reading slo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24810783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18415576">
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    <body><![CDATA[As the above description notes, this collection (it includes <em>The Sword in the Stone</em>, <em>The Witch in the Wood</em>, and <em>The Ill-Made Knight</em>, plus, I believe, some additional material) is &quot;different&quot; in it's approach to the Arthurian legend; but whether it represents &quot;the modern&quot; view of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18415576">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17091968">
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  <read_at>Tue May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve never given King Arthur much thought. He and his Round Table never struck much interest in me. Always seemed like kids’ stories and folklore in the vein of John Henry, Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan. <br/><br/>But this is genuinely a fantastic piece of work. It’s well written, sure, but T.H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17091968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12032377">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Angelo, Mara, Jeremy]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an entertaining and accessible novelization about political theory, told through a rather extraordinary re-imagining of the beloved mythological characters of Arthurian legend. I found White's characterizations of Arthur, Lancelot, and Guenevere to be psychologically probing, nuanced, and fa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12032377">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8878079">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[WOW! Those were murmured out of my mouth as I finished reading T.H White’s The Once and Future King. When I first started to read the story of Arthur I was excepting something like the Disney movie &quot;The Sword in the Stone.&quot; As I began to engross myself into the book I was soon corrected....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8878079">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1964</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my favorite book in fifth grade. Have always had a soft spot in my heart for anything Arthurian ever since.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could easily make the argument that this is my favorite book. My god, this book slapped me across the face when I was in high school. It's as close to perfect as I think a book can be: mannered, clean, heart-rending, and sophisticated. This book woke me up to the fact that I was going to become an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50361221">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Feb 14 08:47:52 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 14 08:47:54 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in high school, and I decided to re-read it, because I remember loving it.  I had forgotten how difficult it is to get through the first part of the book, and I almost put it down entirely.  In The Sword in the Stone, Arthur is a young boy being tutored by Merlyn.  Merlyn turns him ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46320317">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Dec 06 10:48:01 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am in the process of culling my book collection.  I try to keep only two shelves of book (although that doesn't include childrens books).  I bought this one (again) for my husband while he was convalescing from surgery.  I figured a flight into the most wonderful fantasy literature would aid the h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39450080">more...</a>]]></body>
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