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Melanti
Aug 22, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2012, anthology, library
There's many versions of Merlin in the older source material. Sometimes Merlin is a devil, other times just a wise man, other times a magician. In some tales, he lives his life backwards, in others, his perception of time is normal. No version is any more accurate than the rest. Merlin's Book acknowledges all of these versions of Merlin, but makes none definitive.

I really wish I'd read this before I read Catherynne Valente's Under in the Mere. The format is so similar, that my admiration of that ...more
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Netanella
Oct 11, 2008 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fantasy, historical-fiction, arthurian
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Feb 01, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Apr 15, 2015 marked it as to-read
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Jan 02, 2016 marked it as tbr-and-have  ·  review of another edition
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Jul 05, 2016 marked it as retelling-arthurian
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Nov 19, 2018 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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