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Sonja posted a review at 2009-11-04 17:26:31.
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C.S. Lewis said that he considered George MacDonald his mentor. Not so much for his writing skill as for his genius in the story itself. I need to read this again because it has been many years.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-09-17 20:01:50.
(Language: English)
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, boggling! This fantastic tale has a whiff of the old world about it: a Grimm world. It has so much to offer, I know I didn't pick up everything. I'm putting the book aside and coming back and reading it again later!
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A reader posted a review at 2009-06-10 12:24:25.
(Language: English)
Fantasy genre's grand-daddy takes his narrator Anodos (lit. "path-less," suggesting a lost pilgrim) on a Pilgrim's Progress-style journey through Fairyland, replete with friendly and hostile tree-spirits, themes borrowed from Pygmalion and (Arthurian) Percival stories, and lots of poetic connections between nobility, love, and death. The gain and loss of the narrator's own deadly, disenchanting Shadow provides most of the book's spiritual impact.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-06-09 21:19:52.
(Language: English)
Very long read. It's in the style of the period with no real paragraph breaks, so be prepared to sit and read for awhile. If you want an easy stopping point to pick it up again...good luck finding one.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-02-15 13:28:20.
(Language: English)
George Macdonald was an author admired by Tolkien but this book is a rather boring trip through Faery, pretty much in the vain of a medieval Arthurian rmoance. Don't bother...
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A reader posted a review at 2009-01-27 07:59:57.
(Language: English)
I find Lilith even better...
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A reader posted a review at 2008-12-07 05:00:16.
(Language: English)
His first novel and perhaps his best. A masterwork of storytelling, even if not of literature.
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Catherine posted a review at 2008-11-30 11:05:03.
(Language: English)
I love fairy tales in the winter.
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Chase posted a review at 2008-10-23 01:27:19.
(Language: English)
A text book for writing fantasy from the Great grandfather of the genre. Amazing book.
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