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Summary: This is one great book!
Review: Taliesin is one of the best books I've ever read. I think that perhaps the best thing about it is that it mixes characters who could be real with some of the best myths. It is indeed interesting to see an Atlantean in Britain... The plot is as good as can be. The best-drawn character is, I believe Charis. The author has a style is as good as Tolkien's. My only person I find to be unrealistic is Avallach.
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Summary: "Taliesin" is simply my favorite book.
Review: "Taliesin" is my favorite book I've ever read and I am a Literature major at Cambridge. That should tell you somthing. It has strong-points in every field that make a piece of writing a classic: great characters,rich plot that will keep you reading for hours,intense drama,and a tour of a world so beautiful, only an author like Lawhead could create it.
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Summary: The rest of the series is better.
Review: Having fallen in love with Lawhead's Dragon King Trilogy, I bought all four books in the series (Taliesin, Merlin, Arthur, and Pendragon. Grail was not yet out). This book has one major flaw, the strange placement of the legends of Atlantis in with Arthurian and Celtic myths. The other books in the series wisely ignore much of this.
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Summary: If Atlantis ever existed, Lawhead must have been there.
Review: As a student of everything Welsh, I especially enjoyed this book. Whether or not Atlantis really existed, after reading this book, it doesn't really matter. This book is a godsend for anyone interested in a history of Britania without a dry page in it.
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Summary: Taliesin is a great book!
Review: I love this book every time I read it. I think that it is the best of it's series. I never knew what was going to happen next. My favorite character is Charis, because she's smart and can take care of herself. I don't like the damsel in distress steriotype at all. Anyway, this book managed to surprise me when I first read it (which is something few books that I have read do). I thought this book was simply great.
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Summary: A puzzling disappointment
Review: Lawhead is undeniably a good talespinner, but this was too much fantasy and too little Arthurian Britain. The technique of placing Atlantis, said by Plato to have sunk around 9,000 BC, to be contemporary with 5th Century AD Britain, is just too preposterous to stand up. The character of Taliesin is superficial, nowhere near as fleshed out as that of Charis, his wife. It was not quite straightforward fantasy, not quite historical fiction, and the saintly characterizations of the Christians (nothing is said about the darker aspects of exterminating paganism) was too sugary. I expected better from Lawhead.
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Summary: One of the greatest stories I've ever read.
Review: Taliesin is such a great book! Lawhead really builds his characters so well. Charis and Taliesin paint out such a story as to impress even the greatest of the great authors.
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Summary: A moving novel of Love, War, and the struggle of Nationhood
Review: A great novel by a great author. It is the begining of a series that provides a refreshing look at the Aurthurian Legend. *NOTE* Potatoes did NOT come to England from America.
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Summary: A nice, if historically atrocious, story.
Review: Stephen R. Lawhead's prose in Taliesin cannot be faulted, although he ventures a little too far into melodrama from time to time. The "christianization" of Merlin and Taliesin falls into line with popular renderings of the myth such as Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" and Boron's poem "Merlin", one of the earliest christian sources for the myth.Lawhead's decision to merge the Atlantis myth with that of the Arthurian borders on ridiculous, however. When Plato first brought Atlantis into being in his Discourses, he spoke of it in the past tense. That would make it BC. Merlin and Arthur, according to the christian sources which Lawhead seems to be relying on, are located in AD history by a few hundred years, and while the merging of the two legends makes for a nice read, the educated reader may well throw down the book after reading the back cover.
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Summary: My favorite of the Pendragon series
Review: How to describe Taliesin?? This book had me on the edge of my seat the whole time I was reading it. It is the story of two people (Taliesin and Charis) who meet because of horrible circumstances, but they are brought together by a strong, pure love. I like how Lawhead wove early Celtic Christianity into his story. It helps add another dimension to the struggle. The end of the book had me in tears (it is definitely a huge plot ttwist!), and I've read it many times since!
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