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Nicole
Apr 02, 2017 marked it as didn-t-finish
Shelves: 2017
I keep trying to embrace the Arthurian stories, but it just doesn't take for me. The first part of this book was a more elaborate version of the Disney Sword in the Stone, which surprised me a bit as it read as if for a juvenile. I couldn't embrace all the author asides and Merlin's musing on things that wouldn't happen for a 100 years. I gave up. ...more
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martha
May 04, 2007 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 5-star-favs
My favorite book all through middle and high school, and my personal canon for Arthurian legend. Really interesting shifts in tone, fantastic character exploration, funny and exciting and painful and wistful.
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Maggie
Aug 30, 2007 marked it as to-read
Shelves: historical-fiction, classics, royalties, fantasy-sci-fi
I was enjoying this book, but I took a break to read a few Judy Blume's I mooched, and just really haven't wanted to get back into it. But I'll come back to it soon! ...more
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Andrea
Feb 20, 2008 rated it really liked it
i remember reading and enjoying this book for English in High School
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Rhosyn Goodfellow
Jun 13, 2007 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fantasy
Annemieke
Jun 16, 2007 rated it it was amazing
Janie
Jul 18, 2007 marked it as to-read
Isabel
Jul 19, 2007 rated it liked it
Shelves: fantasy
Kate
Jan 28, 2009 rated it did not like it
Shelves: read-for-book-club
Ann
Jun 29, 2009 rated it really liked it
Ching-In
Aug 04, 2009 marked it as to-read
Grace
Nov 12, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Linnea
Jun 30, 2013 added it
Shelves: dnf
Rachel
Aug 28, 2021 rated it really liked it
Shelves: historical-fiction, 1001-books, fantasy
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Mandy
Feb 08, 2014 marked it as to-read
Shelves: 1001-books-to-read
Agatha Donkar Lund
Aug 01, 2018 rated it it was amazing
stephanie
Aug 30, 2020 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Katy
Aug 11, 2018 marked it as to-read
Chrissy
Nov 05, 2018 marked it as to-read
Shelves: bibliophile-fantasy
Ellen
Mar 11, 2019 rated it it was amazing
Jennifer
Apr 17, 2019 marked it as to-read
Shelves: 1000bookstoread
Kelsey
Jul 27, 2019 marked it as to-read
Lori
Aug 16, 2019 rated it it was ok
Shasta
Nov 05, 2019 marked it as to-read
Shelves: classics, fantasy, kindle-i-own-it
Cathy
Dec 05, 2019 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Ana
Aug 29, 2020 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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