ALBION'S DREAM

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Summary: Vaguely remembered dream scapes
Review: I only vaguely remember this book, from reading it just after it had come out. Yet to meet anyone who has read it who wasn't intrigued. The book has a fascinating, dream-like quality, and only a weak, confusing ending mars a superbly written "good-and-evil" YA novel.

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Summary: buy it now
Review: this has been one of my favorite books since i first found it in the town library when I was ten. yes, that was only six years ago, but it still blows me away every time that I read it. It's a hard book to describe because the writing, not style-wise, but appreciation wise, is similar to A.A. Milne in the sense that kids can easily understand it, but those looking for crafted beauty in the words find it. Here's a sample: "It took me a long journey, two thousand miles, to learn to dig a post hole and to hoe a long row, to plant a tree, to kill a chicken and to build a stone wall, but the soil here is not like Wessex soils, the trees are stunted, the rivers run dry and the hillsides are clad in thick, coarse scrub covering the ancient conformations."