Gawain and the Green Knight: Adventure at Camelot

by Y.R. Ponsor

Stated First Printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The book has light rubs to the corners and faint stains at the front cover's spine seam. The dust jacket has a crease along the spine and frays at its head and heel. Rubs to the corners. The rear panel has some small tears at the edges. This copy is signed twice and inscribed by Ponser on the front fly. Illustrations by Darrell K. Sweet.

Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Arthurian

76 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1979

Reviews

[Timothy Elsasser · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would give it a 3.5/5 instead of 3 but the website doesn't allow half stars. The story starts decent, drags on a bit, gets honestly a bit confusing, hits a point of clarity (which is the best part of the book) and then quickly gets a bit boring to end it. Overall the story is a good story, my biggest problem with it is that I just didn't really enjoy how Y.R. Ponsor wrote it. I realize this is an old English poem originally written 600+ years ago, according to Ponsor, and translated into more understandable language, but the author at times writes a whole lot while saying very little which just makes it hard to want to keep going. For example, there was almost an entire page dedicated to describing the hunters taking apart their catch which really was not necessary to the story in the slightest. His constant usage of interrupters mid sentence sometimes threw the rhythm off balance making me have to reread sentences to understand what he was going for. Overall, like I said, the story is decent, but I can't exactly say I'd recommend it to anyone. Maybe if you're a really quick reader and have nothing better to do? Chapters 10 and 11 are where it gets better but I'm not 100% convinced it was worth the read really. Tolkien wrote a version that is more like the original in poetic fashion so you could always give that a go since I feel like that version may be shorter, but also might be in more old English style than this.

[Vered · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5

Really interesting and a quick read. Some of the story confused me a bit but I still enjoyed it.