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For some reason, I've had a hankering to reread these books for a few months. A yen I gave in to this weekend when I checked out a Science Fiction Book Club omnibus edition of all 5 novels and a collection of short stories (the latter of which, I haven't read).
Having read The Book of Three, I can see where my moral compass may have begun to form. I first read these books in sixth grade as an extracurricular project, and then made a filmstrip of the final book, The High King (yes, a "filmstrip" - ...more
Having read The Book of Three, I can see where my moral compass may have begun to form. I first read these books in sixth grade as an extracurricular project, and then made a filmstrip of the final book, The High King (yes, a "filmstrip" - ...more
Read this on the train today. It's fun and a quick read. It's nothing especially new, in all the fantasy I've read. Even the relatively light-hearted tone and the characterisations aren't precisely new. It's shallow, really -- by which I mean that I didn't really feel strongly drawn to the characters, or caught up in their danger. It did make me giggle, though and Eilonwy is a really fun character. I kind of wished Gwydion had been more fleshed out, too, because he's normally the kind of charact
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Hen Wen, the oracular pig, breaks out of her pen, and it's up to Taran to find her. Turns out she was running away from a very scary army led by a very scary black knight, and now Taran is running, too.
The first book of a great series, the Chronicles of Prydain. ...more
The first book of a great series, the Chronicles of Prydain. ...more
Dec 28, 2011
Danielle The Book Huntress
marked it as to-read
May 02, 2012
Eric
marked it as to-read
