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How did the fact of war begin in general? For any one war seemed so rooted in its antecedents. Mordred went back to Morgause, Morgause to Uther Pendragon, Uther to his ancestors. It seemed as if Cain had slain Abel, seizing his country after which the men of Abel had sought to win their patrimony again for ever. Man had gone on, through age after age, avenging wrong with wrong, slaughter with slaughter. Nobody was the better for it, since both sides always suffered, yet everybody was inextricabl
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I got a quarter of the way into it before I came to terms with how much I hated it. I was doing that thing when you're bored with a book, where I read a paragraph, then spaced out and thought about anything that wasn't the book. It was painful. Also, possibly the shittiest female characters I've ever read, in any book from the last three centuries. Ugh.
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This book is divided into 4 sections. I can't remember and didn't make a note, but at approximately the middle of the book the story really started dragging, and I found it hard to push through those parts. This encompassed anywhere from 25% to 33% of the book and is why this book is getting only 3 instead of 4 stars from me.
The first section reminds me a lot of the Disney movie, The Sword in the Stone, but with better writing, greater detail, and more twists.
A classic, a very good story, and ...more
The first section reminds me a lot of the Disney movie, The Sword in the Stone, but with better writing, greater detail, and more twists.
A classic, a very good story, and ...more
Loved this. Maybe my first-ever alternate history.
On rereading 35 years after the fact, it impacted me differently.
On rereading 35 years after the fact, it impacted me differently.
Jul 25, 2011
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