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Summary: Great book!
Review: It was a little slow starting, but still a wonderful book and well worth reading
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Summary: 5 stars all the way!
Review: This book is one of the best Robin Hood books I've read. This book plays a movie in your head while you read it. I couldn't put it down!
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Summary: Great!!
Review: This is one of my all time favorite books, by my all time favorite author. It is so great to see Marian, a woman, be a lead story member in a classically male story.
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Summary: The best Robin Hood of them all!
Review: This book began an obsession with all things Robin Hood for me. Robin Mckinley has breathed true life into these familiar characters by making them true-to-life. Robin Hood himself is unable to see what it is that draws needy people to him, and that humbleness makes him a true hero in this story. I often find myself longing for McKinley to tackle another obsession of mine - the legend of King Arthur and Camelot.
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Summary: Robin Hood & Company are the best (printed) comrades of all
Review: Long one-liner there, but it had to be said. I can't remember first reading this...I think I was thirteen, and unable to put it down; now having memorized most of it I am now trying to convince myself that I wrote it. But credit goes to the best re-teller in the world, McKinley. Only she could boil away all hyperbole from the legends of ages and end up with true heroism and wit and one of those love stories that just makes you want to scream. Two, actually. Anyway, if you want to know Robin Hood, do him and yourself a favor and read this tale before you read any others, for all the others will pale anyway.
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Summary: Robin Hood: the Possibility of Reality...
Review: Robin McKinley is, perhaps, one of the best writers I have ever read, especially her books Outlaws of Sherwood and Beauty. In Outlaws of Sherwood, McKinley uses her clear and descriptive style to add a little reality to the Robin Hood legends. Instead of showing her readers a Robin who looks debonair and dashing while joking with his merry men, McKinley gives us a Robin who lives in the forest, is poor, sometimes afraid, and not constantly merry. This Robin even has trouble shooting a straight arrow! He is faulty, yet he is likable and compelling because the reader may see him/herself in his life and his decisions. The other characters in the book are also convincing, showing us a suprisingly different view of our Lady Marian along with a wonderful portrayel of Friar Tuck. McKinley uses the reality factor of life to spin a tale in which people really might have lived, yet she still captures all the fantastic elements of the Medieval times and pagentry, along with the humor, that the original legend possesses. Perhaps one of the best scenes in the entire novel is toward the end, when Guy of Gisbourne attacks the theives outside of Friar Tucks little church and hovel. The excitement of battle is mixed with such a concern for the characters that the reader really feels present among them, dodging blows from swords and the feathered shafts of arrows!
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Summary: so human and yet so much more...
Review: This story of Robin Hood is one of the many that I have read but it is the only one in which I can identify with the main character. The main characters are so real that they could have come from any one of the people I have met in my life. This story is probably not the most accurate in terms of history but could not have been better told with humanity and feeling.
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Summary: Superb book for secondary English classes!
Review: THE OUTLAWS OF SHERWOOD is a novel overlooked by secondary English educators. Not only is it an excellent coming of age novel, it portrays medieval life with beautifully descriptive language, humor, and an emphasis on women as strong, courageous characters. Possibilities for teachers at the high school level include using the text to teach literary criticism, and supplementing lessons on Medival English history, feudalism, and the Crusades.
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Summary: A different sort of telling to the story. . .
Review: I think that many people would like to hold on to Robin Hood as the outstanding archer he is portrayed as in many accounts. McKinley's telling of the story is well-written, but there is want for heroism in its main character. This Robin is less of the strong main character he should be. Despite this, the book is enjoyable, and I do like that she keeps him human.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Little John...McKinley's characters are as far from the Disney musical version as it is possible to be. They are so real as to be almost tangible, their personalities, dialogue and lives drawn with the loving detail we've ome to expect from this fantastic author. This Robin Hood is no superhuman hero, but a man we can identify with on every level, who tries and sometimes fails, who gets blisters on his hands and water in his shoes, and who never asked to be a hero. From beginning to end, this book will capture your heart
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