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    <body><![CDATA[Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have paid true homage to the spirit of the Green Man in this anthology: <em>&quot;In this book, we've asked the writers to journey deep into the Mythic Forest, to bring back tales of those wild lands, and of the creatures who dwell within them. Thus in these pages you'll ...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52447424">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fans of Vess's illustrations will be disappointed -- he's confined to small banners at the beginning of each story. However, there are some fantastic stories in here by great writers, and I found a few new writers I'll be following as well. (How did it take me so long to discover Snyder?) This is de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71449045">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just found this collection of short stories at the library and it looked like fun. Like most collections, I really liked some of the stories, some were fun, but nothing special, and some were not my style at all. I did find some new authors to read - Tanith Lee and M. Shayne Bell both had stories ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44883890">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The only problem with short stories is that you really want some of them to go on . . . ! My favorites in this collection were &quot;Hunter's Moon,&quot; by Patricia McKillip (of course) and &quot;Grounded,&quot; by Nina Kiriki Hoffman. &quot;Joshua Tree,&quot; by Emma Bull, was also notable for con...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Each of these stories and poems was rich and special.  They all felt like they had roots set firmly into some of the deepest and most elemental myths of the natural world.  I'd have to put this set on a list for &quot;best short story collections&quot; in my personal library.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So much more than the title leads you to expect. I purchased this library copy (love library copies) from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://half.com">half.com</a> because I like Greenman mythology and Charles Vess illustrations.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lovely short stories.  Nothing too deep or involved, just top-notch story telling. Perfect when my brain is fried and I want to escape for a brief moment into another world.    ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those sad occasions where I really really really wish I could just rate each story/poem individually :)  Compilations are fussy that way, no?  The theme of this collection was fun, and of COURSE I loved the illustrations (Charles Vess is the entire reason I checked the book out!)... b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5548010">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The introduction is amazing: full of book references, tracing the mythic forest from the ancients to Jane Yolen. I'm tempted to build a year's reading around it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of short stories, all inspired by the myth/ legend of the Green Man, was the most satisfying collection of short stories I've read in a long time. There were only one or two that didn't stick with me for a long time after reading them, and as a whole, the work was tremendously cohesi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24749503">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I so enjoyed this book, a great anthology filled with fantasy stories and poems from some of the genre's most eminent authors and also work by authors I hadn't yet heard of. Editors Datlow and Windling did a great job acquiring a diverse range of material inspired by magic realism, European mytholog...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50885210">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A mixed bag of stories....some are quite good, some quite unusual, and some fall flat.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Thus far this is a damned good selection of stories! ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another excellent anthology. The stories are well chosen.]]></body>
    
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