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Post by hamameliss on Nov 15, 2007 17:02:57 GMT -5
I have to admit that my favorite was Taliesen, probably because I loved the descriptions of Atlanta. However, I haven't read those books in about 15 years, so my brain is a little fuzzy on the details. *sigh* I guess that's the problem with getting old. Since I read them when the series first came out, and my parents didn't purchase further than Arthur, I was delighted to discover there were three more books in the series to explore. I would further qualify my dislike of Merlin and Arthur because I read Samuel Clemens "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" shortly before I read the SRL books, and it was really hard to do that because the perspectives on the time period were so vastly different, I had a hard time getting into the SRL version. I obviously need to go back and steal some of these books of my parent's shelves over Thanksgiving, reread them and give a more current opinion.....so more comments later...
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Post by acrux on Nov 26, 2007 15:45:41 GMT -5
Heh...funny that you should mention "Connecticut Yankee", because I too read it around the same time as Taliesin and Merlin. However, I came out wth exactly the opposite reaction from you: I absolutely loathed "Connecticut Yakee".
Mainly, I hated it because Twain was trying to tear down the Romantic notions of the Middle Ages written about by Scott and others. Reading those books are some of my fondest memories, and I have a deeply-held connection to them. So, when I read Twains polemic (which it truly is - I'd suggest reading Brian Attebery's critique in "The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature".) I felt like he was attacking me personally.
When I turned to SRLs novels, I quite honestly felt refreshed each time.
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Post by skip619 on Feb 20, 2008 23:31:50 GMT -5
Reading the comments here, it reminded me of when I first discovered SRL's books. A friend of mine gave me Taliesin, this book he picked up at a convention and the author was there to sign it. Needless to say, I read through Taliesin, Merlin, and Arthur in a weekend and have re-read twice a year since then (1991). I added Grail and Pendragon when they came out as well. I have a personal library of aroud 750 books, but I can honestly say these are dearest to my heart. Now my ten year old has picked themup. The cycle has begun!
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