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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: I should say that this is the one of the best book I ever read. It's so compeling, you can not put it down. One of the best books of all time. The story is very belivable and so real. The caracters are amazingly built. They come to life and you live their story. It was very smart to write the Artherian Legen throught the eyes of the woman. It really makes you think of what is right and wrong, what the caracters should do, but dont. It's incredible!!!Never again I dont think that I will able to find a book like this.
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Summary: This is an amazing book!
Review: I read this book in less than 2 weeks. I could not put it down! i love this book! I cannot see how someone came up with somthing like this. She must of thought for hours! I recomended this book to many of my friends, and now they are fighting over who should get the book. Sometimes I would find them looking at my book and reading over my shoulder when I was reading! It is a truly amazing book, and a wonderful movie! They had some mistakes in it, but over all, THEY ARE AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Wow! A New Perspective on an Old Legend.
Review: This is a book on the legend of King Arthur seen through the eyes of the females who lived during that time. Most of the story is told from the perspectives of Morgaine (morgan la fey), Gwenwhyfar (Guenivere, that's the welsh spelling), Viviane (the Lady of the Lake, and Igraine. There are others, like Morgause and stuff. But those are the most important. The story starts when Morgaine was young and her mother Igraine was still married to the Duke of Cornwall, and the story goes from there to her and Uther's afair, Morgaine being sent to train as a preistess in Avalon, the rise of King Arthur, the incestuous night with Arthur and Morgaine which brings about his only son...which leads to many problems. The love between Lancelet and Gwenhwyfar. Camelot and the round table. All of it is here. And the story breathes new life into a lot of these. Such as the proposal between Arthur, Lacelet, and Gwenhwyfar. There is also a lot about religion in this book. The constant battle between Christianity and the old pagan religion. And at times, I would get really mad at these christian priests in the book who acted like *they* were higher than god himself. I also enjoyed how the Druid Merlin was wiser about Chistianity than the priests and the prists would always resond with a "The real interpretaions must be left to the priests" and the like. IT's ridiculous, especially since I know people like that for real. Anyways, if you want an exceptionally well written book about a classic legend, shown from a new perspective...pick this up. This book now has a place in my number three spot of favourite books of all time. Yes!
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Summary: Opening of the eyes
Review: This book...opens my eyes. I've read before this so many other Arthurian legends, and some of them put down the women and the Celtic religion. This book embraces them and shows you a different side of the legends. It brough characters to life, and showed what happened before Arthur and his sister Morgaine were born. It surprised me at first, how at the beginning Morgaine called Arthur, her "lover" but it later explains it wasn't their fault what happened. Many Arthurian books I've read, they badmouth almost all the women. But this book gives you an insight, and is incredibly like something that might have happened. It is my favorite book now.
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Summary: Wonderful fiction
Review: This book was fun. I loved the intricacies of the characters. There was no clear good-guy/bad-guy in this story. People were real, with good qualities and not so good qualities.
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Summary: A Captivating Realistic Fantsy
Review: Well this is the closest to reality you could get for a legend. The characters have dreams and flaws just as a real person would. The reader can relate to at least one or two of the characters. I could even go so far as to say a reader could relate to EVERY charcter in at least one aspect or another. This story plays with the imagination and provides vivid circumstances that can entrance anyone. A read I will cherish for a lifetime!
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Summary: changed my life
Review: Read this book. I give it to every woman I meet if they haven't already read it. It is the story of Arthur from a women's point of view. It makes the story of Morgan understandable. It is also obvious that Bradley has done her historical and mythical research. A great story for any lover of epics and myth.
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Summary: Humanities 10B honors class
Review: This novel is one of my favorites and I absolutely love it. In my Humanities class, we're assigned to read Malory's "Le Morte D' Arthur" for the Feudalism portion. But I wasn't interested and the nice teacher said that I can go along with Mists of Avalon after I explained what a great job Bradley did with it. I mean, with a book like this, I'm simply not interested in reading any other rendition of the Arthur legends. I'm not interested in that by itself and Bradley's book is so much more than that. The rest of the reviews here pretty much sums up everything else that I could say. Thank you Bradley for bringing life and personality to the characters of the Round Table and finally Avalon.
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Summary: Unexpected Beauty
Review: This book took me two years (because of so many starts and start-overs) to read, but once I finally got down to it and went all the way though I was amazed! Enthralling and really just beautiful, the Mists of Avalon is deffinitely a must read for anyone not only because of its literary beauty (Bradley is truly talented) but because how archetypal and allegorical it is. Everything works and all of the characters are so amazingly developed they jump off of the page. Dynamic, Mists probably should be read by everyone.
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Summary: An epic masterpiece
Review: I have always wanted to read this book, but I was intimidated by the sheer length of it. Besides, I knew nothing about King Arthur or the Round Table and didn't particularly care for action-focused books. Thankfully, none of that mattered. "The Mists of Avalon" is about the women of the court, so it's not about about battle strategy, political intrigue, etc (sorry, guys!). But that's not to say that this is a dull-witted romance novel. I learned more about Dark Ages Britain than I'd ever learn in any history course.
This is possibly the most moving book I have ever read. Marion Zimmer Bradley is phenomenally talented, and it's easy to see that a great deal of research went into the writing of it. There are easily a hundred or more characters, major and minor, some with unpronouncable or very similar names (Uwaine, Gawaine, Gawan) And somehow they all seem to have their own personalities.
There are four parts to the book, "Mistress of Magic," dealing mainly with the life of Igraine and the training of Morgaine of the Fairies as priestess; "The High Queen," which is about Queen Gwenhwyfar and her life and influence on King Arthur; "The King Stag," where most of the novel's plotting takes place; and "The Prisoner in the Oak," where all that Morgaine, Viviane, and Kevin have wrought comes to fruit.
Though it takes a long time, and plenty of patience, to read, the end result is well worth it. I am sure that i will remember "The Mists of Avalon" for years, and may even read it again someday. Highly recommended!
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