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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;Something is scratching around in the attic above Alison's room. Yet the only thing up there is a stack of grimy old plates. Alison and her stepbrother, Roger, discover that the flowery patterns on the plates, when traced onto paper, can be fitted together to create owls--owls that disappear when no one is watching. With each vanished owl, strange events begin to happen . As the kids uncover the mystery of the owl service, they become trapped within a local legend, playing out roles in a tragic love story that has repeated itself for generations . . . and has always ended in disaster.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this hoping I might be able to write my Celtic Literature paper on it; it ended up not being a good fit, but it was still a pretty interesting novel. It centers around the brief friendship of two English teenagers with a Welsh boy their age. The depiction of Welsh-English hostilities was the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9914612">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe I haven't reviewed this book. I read it when it was little, and it scared me quite a lot at the time -- I was a 'fraidy cat. The subject matter, the story of Blodeuwedd, is something I've been especially interested in ever since. I thought the story was weird as hell at the time I re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29394059">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not going to do a review on my blog. I was just so-so about this book. I found the writing to be hard to follow probably because it was written with the Welsh in mind. I'm glad that I read it though because the mythical story behind the premise is one that I had never heard of. In fact, I learne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49366204">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a pretty odd little book; I really enjoyed it, but the very end left me a little confused. It would probably appeal to those who liked <em>The Dark Is Rising</em>, since it taps into a lot of Welsh mythology and such, but it's a much more subtle and psychological story. I'm going to have to check out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16078649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read for Sci-Fi/Fantasy class. It is pretty confusing. It was an easy read, but not because it was interesting, just because it was interesting. The story revolves around a group of individuals who are caught in the cycle of playing out a legend again and again until it finds an appropriate end. I w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63618249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a strange little book. I don't know whether the style of the narrative drew me in or confused me more -- the elliptical prose made it a bit hard to figure out what was going on. It did make me curious about the Welsh myth, though.<br/><br/>It reminded me of some of the books in <em>The Dark is Ri...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68018939">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a wordsmith!  Garner's dialogues are so realistic that the characters couldn't seem more real (despite 40-year-old quirky British slang).  I first read this book about 10 years ago, and it inspired me to read the Mabinogion, a book of Welsh myths.  I just re-read it, and it did it again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Four stars for the &quot;I couldn't put it down factor.&quot;  It loses a star for the &quot;confusing as heck&quot; factor that it has at certain points, as well as for the fact that I wanted more from the ending.  Not a different ending, just a little bit more to it.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best thing about this book is the elliptical strangeness of it, the odd otherworldly language and broken narrative structure yet... the worst thing about this book is the elliptical strangeness of it, the odd otherwordly language and broken narrative structure. <br/><br/>I don't see how this i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41011961">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting take on the Blodeuwedd story from the Mabinogion; confusing storytelling, but its look at the interactions of Alison, Roger, and Gwyn has a lot of psychological realism. I think I might appreciate this more upon a reread.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An influence on the Ghostbox label, Hauntology, and the Bellbury Poly's excellent album &quot;The Owl's Map.&quot; Surprisingly creepy novel about Welsh myths surfacing in modern life, told in ellipital prose. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alan Garner was my favorite author as a young man.  His idea that the regular world was just an inch away from magic was really great.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book I picked up and then put right back down. I made it 1/4th of the way through the book but wasn't interested enough to keep reading. The characters are not well fleshed out and the reader is dropped into the middle of the action with no explanation. The plot seems to just jump from scene...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36831111">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic. One of my all time favorites. The perfect blend of emotional realism and mythology.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a dark little Welsh tale with a dash of mythology and a sprinkling of mystery.  It's pretty indirect, and while you're reading, you're left guessing about some of the dialogue, and plot...and characters, but I kind of felt like that was part of its charm.  However, I'm still guessing.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5539126">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my read-again-every-7-years books. This and Red Shift are Alan Garner's best.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book and read it over and over again as a kid. Super creepy. ]]></body>
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    <review id="72099671">
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    <body><![CDATA[Very different to the Weirdstone and at 12 I found it very unnerving!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is supposedly viewed as a 'classic' among children's fantasy books, but it has to be one of the most confusing books I've ever read. I don't understand what happened, and the dialogue seemed so random and as if there were sentences not being spoken. No descriptions or character development. It'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6870943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was a bit lost in the first couple of chapters of this, but it was nice as a whole. Gwyn is possibly my Favourite Male Character of the last little while. And the class/accent issues were a surprise, and a fantastic surprise at that. It's sort of written in an understated way, you have to work a b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/206876">more...</a>]]></body>
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