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  <title><![CDATA[Here Lies Arthur]]></title>
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  <default_description>Gwyna is just a small girl, a mouse, when she is bound in service to Myrddin the bard - a traveller and spinner of tales. But Myrddin transforms her - into a lady goddess, a boy warrior, and a spy. Without Gwyna, Myrddin will not be able to work the most glorious transformation of all - and turn the leader of a raggle-taggle war-band into King Arthur, the greatest hero of all time.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2007</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Philip Reeve]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are eleventy billion books out there based on the King Arthur story, but this is one of the best I've read. It's one of the &quot;realistic&quot; ones: Arthur isn't a king or a hero; he's a thug who wants to take as much as he can from the other thugs of post-Roman Britain and Merlin is a smoo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42247512">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Compelling read.  With its super-short chapters, I found it incredibly difficult to put it down.  I love books where the title and flap copy make the book appear to be about one thing but then, once you get into it, you realize that there is a much larger theme.  In this case, the book appears to be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27972982">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Writers frequently play with the legendary story and Reeve's version is about the how the legend might have come to be.  He gives us an Arthur who isn't a very nice guy and a Merlin who was the orginal spin doctor - creating the stories that people wanted to hear about a king they yearned to believe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24691028">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48822351">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fans of the Arthurian legends should enjoy this fresh revisioning. Personally, I think his &quot;Larklight&quot; series is far better.<br/><br/>Almost three stars. A reinvention of the Arthurian myths, with a much more &quot;authentic&quot; feel than most, esp. the Roman and Welsh touches.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48822351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46642811">
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    <body><![CDATA[Gwynna is just a child when Myrddin (Merlin) takes her in after Arthur kills her master and all his household in a raid.  He disguises her as a boy so that she can be his servant, following along on the adventures of Arthur and his warriors.  But eventually the day comes when she can no longer be di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46642811">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A postmodern take on the Arthurian legends that brilliantly deconstructs these timeless myths through the eyes of a gender-bending narrator -- could there be a more perfect retelling of these stories for little ole postmodern-feminist me? Reeve's wonderful book cleverly demonstrates how the lives of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45937509">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57161661">
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don’t know what took me so long to get to this book, seeing as how I’m a huge fan of both Reeve’s Immortal Engines quartet and practically anything even remotely Arthurian (including books that simply take place in the cold and mucky England of yore – very long-ago yore).<br/><br/>Here L...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57161661">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56392002">
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    <body><![CDATA[With his newest book, Reeve jumps into the past and presents a modern re-imaging of the Arthurian legends. The story is told through the eyes a girl named Gwyna, who starts of the book at the young age of nine. Arthur is leading an army against the manor in which she lives. All there are crushed, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56392002">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You can find almost every kind of fantasy within the Arthurian tradition, such as classic fantasy (The Once and Future King), feminist fantasy (The Mists of Avalon), and semi-historical fantasy (The Crystal Cave). &quot;Here Lies Arthur&quot;, perhaps, represents something new: anti-fantasy. Despite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53010183">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>“They’re only stories,” he would say, “What do stories matter?”  But he wasn’t stupid.  He knew as well as Myrddin that in the end stories are </em>all<em> that matter.<br/>--Here Lies Arthur<br/><br/>“The heroes, the Trows--the stories that bind us, Halli.  The stories we live by, that dict...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54116235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40871377">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book for the Arthurian Legends enthusiasts, and I happen to be one.  Having read many re-imagined Arthurian tales, I was completely delighted by this fresh take on the “true story” behind the legends.   Reeve’s conceit is a fabulous one: it is all about the power of stories, story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40871377">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[We’ve all heard the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. A young Arthur learns of his kingly destiny by pulling the sword from the stone. He is a fair and much loved ruler who weds the beautiful Guinevere. We also know of Guinevere’s betrayal and her deep love for Lancelot. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39859453">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Phillip Reeve imagines that the Legend of Arthur is just that...a legend...and writes the &quot;true story&quot; that the reader understands as the &quot;real&quot; roots of the fantastic mythology that has grown around King Arthur, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table.  <br/><br/>Here Lies ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62679753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>in a sentence: Gwyna, a servant girl left behind after one of Arthur's raids, catches the eye of the famous wizard Myrddin. after Myrddin spots what might be some form of usefulness in the plain-faced orphan, Gwyna is in over her head and getting wrapped up in the legendary tale of Arthur.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40908246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reeve tells the story of King Arthur from a different perspective. Arthur, the Dux Bellorum, is one of a group of warlords roaming Britain during the Dark Ages. He is brutish and not very bright. The story is told by Gwyna, a young servant girl, whose village is destroyed by Arthur and his raiders. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53458526">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here Lies Arthur<br/>Philip Reeve<br/>Scholastic Press, 2008<br/>ISBN:  9780545093347<br/>Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for ReviewYourBook.com, 2008<br/>4 stars<br/>Anew perspective of King Arthur…<br/>Philip Reeve offers a new perspective on King Arthur.  Here Lies Arthur is a book for young ad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40660711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The stories of King Arthur are told through the eyes of Gwynna, an orphan after her village and parents are destroyed.  Myrddin persuades Gwynna to play the part of the Lady of the Lake to bring the sword Caliburn to Arthur.  Myrddin decides that she should stay with him after delivering the sword b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64808449">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't read this book unless you want your good opinion of King Arthur to disappear. I love to read any books written about Arthur and the knights of the round table. However, this is a complete turn around from all the stories you have read. Philip Reeve paints Arthur as a war lord who is as bad as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38435678">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I usually like stories about Arthur and Merlin. I did not really like the Arthur or the Merlin portrayed in this story. Arthur is just a brutal and power hungry savage, and Merlin is just a bard with no magical powers except the power to spin a tale so believable that people begin to belive in Arthu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74742590">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every time I've got Reeve's writing pegged in my mind, dystopian fantasy (Mortal Cities) or light-hearted steampunk (Larklight), he throws me for a loop.  This one is gritty Arthurian fiction.  Told from a girl's point of view with a clear insight into why women didn't appear often in the early vers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52546973">more...</a>]]></body>
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