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  <title><![CDATA[The Mabinogion (Penguin Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>The Mabinogion is an assembly of Welsh Stories that were taken from Two Ancient books called the 'Red Book of Hergest' and the earlier 'The White Book of Rhydderch' . They tell the stories of people in Celtic times, some of the stories have been placed from approx 500 BC.  --webmesh.co.uk Mabinogion page</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">18</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">11</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1976</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Mabinogion </original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Patrick Sims-Williams]]></name>
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    <review id="27484881">
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    <name><![CDATA[Corbin]]></name>
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[myth nerds, Traci Harding fans, Arthurian legend buffs, maruts, misanthropes, mystics]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 16 20:31:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 27 19:02:50 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Imagine King Arthur and his knights snuck up on the Tylweth Teg, clubbed them over the head, stole their coyote stories, and then changed all the endings.<br/><br/>In other words, this is a book about just how insufferably rude human beings can manage to be, just by upholding the ideals of their c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27484881">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30865882">
    <user id="1445709">
    <name><![CDATA[Tyas]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Ciputat, Indonesia]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 21 22:08:06 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 06 16:08:08 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wales, meskipun merupakan bagian dari United Kingdom yang di Indonesia jamak disebut ‘Inggris’ (meski sebutan itu kurang sesuai), sebenarnya berbeda dan harus dibedakan dari Inggris (England). Bangsa Wales telah menghuni daratan Britania sebelum suku-suku bangsa lain berdatangan dari Eropa darat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30865882">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="28961237">
    <user id="182191">
    <name><![CDATA[Jeffrey]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Rochester, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 01 04:25:32 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 04 03:43:12 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[How does a person even presume to review a book that has survived 700 years, containing stories that survived close to their current form without anyone writing them down for a further 300 years?<br/><br/>I originally picked up the book because <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Lloyd Alexander" title=" Lloyd Alexander"> Lloyd Alexander</a>'s <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Chronicles of Prydain" title=" Chronicles of Prydain"> Chronicles of Prydain</a> is based on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28961237">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76874053">
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 05 19:17:27 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 05 19:17:27 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a collection of Welsh tales that I re-read from time to time for the sheer unadulterated pleasure of the literary experience contained within this work. the earlier stories provide a glimpse of the mores and weltanschauung of pre-Roman British culture.]]></body>
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    <review id="50059343">
    <user id="2150762">
    <name><![CDATA[Sara]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 22 09:45:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 14 16:29:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I happen to love Welsh mythology, so for me, this was great. even just trying to pronounce the names was fun in and of itself. &quot;Ll&quot; is pronounced by making an &quot;l&quot; in your mouth and whispering the sound &quot;l&quot;, if you let the air out of your mouth (not nose) around the side...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50059343">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56852411">
    <user id="2339046">
    <name><![CDATA[Mark]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lander, WY]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu May 21 08:49:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 23 14:47:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The main problem with this is that it's a really boring translation.  It has excellent notes.  There's a much better translation now available, by Sioned Davies.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326248.The_Mabinogion" title="The Mabinogion by Sioned Davies">The Mabinogion</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56852411]]></url>
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    <review id="52307437">
    <user id="1336578">
    <name><![CDATA[Christopher]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Apr 11 11:48:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 11 11:52:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sex, magic, knights, damsels, swordplay, Arthur, and lots of unpronounceable Welsh names in stories that inspired later writers on the Continent.  Gotta love it.  ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52307437]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="41775800">
    <user id="1476450">
    <name><![CDATA[Emma]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Rexburg, ID]]></location>        
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      <rating>0</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 03 18:09:34 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 03 18:13:46 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Mabinogion is a collection of Welsh myths. I am currently on the second part of the Pwyll cycle (&quot;Rhiannon&quot;).]]></body>
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    <review id="44302529">
    <user id="1953964">
    <name><![CDATA[Lauren]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 25 12:21:23 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 25 12:23:40 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like Arthurian, this is a must-read of early Welsh tales involving the One and Future King. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44302529]]></url>
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    <review id="70318297">
    <user id="2205814">
    <name><![CDATA[Misha]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Kennewick, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 06 22:03:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 06 22:06:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Welsh myths that provided the basis for some of the later Arthur stories.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70318297]]></url>
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    <review id="44911358">
    <user id="1973266">
    <name><![CDATA[Michelle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Grand Rapids, MI]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 30 19:08:21 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 30 19:08:34 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books of all time.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44911358]]></url>
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    <review id="2096149">
    <user id="136211">
    <name><![CDATA[Megan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Beltsville, MD]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1987</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 18 18:14:28 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 18 18:14:28 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My dad had a copy of this book. I read it very early on into my obsession with Celtic myth and legend. I think I was 10 or 11, but I'd already heard all the stories in bedtime story form and I gobbled <em>The Mabinogion</em> up with a spoon.  I've read it a gazillion times since, even once in college for a M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2096149">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18584907">
    <user id="868069">
    <name><![CDATA[Noah]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 25 08:34:26 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 28 23:06:59 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read a story from this collection of 12 stories in Middle Welsh class (yeah, in Middle Welsh...what an awesome language).  I didn't know that there was much about King Arthur, though after the first four stories most were about him and his knights.  Some of the stories were strange and weird...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18584907">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18584907]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="6792435">
    <user id="355736">
    <name><![CDATA[Susan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[West Sacramento, CA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/355736-susan]]></url>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 25 16:06:19 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 25 16:10:33 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this one... mostly because these are some of the earliest known stories of King Arthur.  They aren't exactly what you would expect if you've only ready T.H. White's <em>Once and Future King</em>.  The pagan influences are much stronger here and the stories reflect the oddness of the cultural moment w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6792435">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12379151">
    <user id="776507">
    <name><![CDATA[St-Michel]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[China]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 12 22:42:18 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 17 18:27:46 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unbelievable!!  To date, this is the finest chunk of Celtic literature and legend that I've come across.  The stories are fantastic and aren't afraid to tiptoe around the strange and grotesque.  Also, the Welsh interpretations of Arthur's Court is inquisitively different from the traditional, yet re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12379151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46193274">
    <user id="834827">
    <name><![CDATA[Gavin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Suva, Fiji]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 12 17:39:42 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 28 21:14:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fairy land or Anywn (sp?) from the Welsh perspective.<br/><br/>Many of the characters would be familiar from Arthurian and other legends and the tales told are some of the oldest surviving from the Welsh tradition. This is a good translation, according to various Welshmen and who am I to argue wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46193274">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20932398">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Apr 24 19:09:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book as part of a Celtic Literature course that influenced my writing more than any other single course, and this book may have been the one book that influenced my writing more than any other book.  There's a lot of magic in this book, and it has a treasured place on my bookshelf.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 29 11:44:00 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 30 14:01:15 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for my thesis research, although sadly it did not yield the kind of evidence I was looking for so I'll have to look for new sources elsewhere. On its own, though, it's a pretty magical read if you are looking for a taste of early Welsh mythology.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This Welsh collection of legends and includes king Arthur.  It is well-illustrated (by Alan Lee,) but if you are more interested in the story I suggest probably reading Lady Charlotte Guest's version.  Actually this uses it at least for a reference.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 24 08:19:02 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent translation for the lay reader.  Those who find epic or medieval literature hard slogging might be better off reading Evangeline Walton's excellent tetralogy of novels based closely on the Mabinogi's four branches.  ]]></body>
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