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The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
This is taking me forever to read but I LOVE this book. This book is nothing like I thought it was going to be. I am not a big King Arthur fan - I've always thought a story based on the downfall of a noble king b/c his wife and best friend cheat on him is miserable and have had no desire to read such nonsense. I was wrong. The Mists is an amazing book. I get really really sad while reading it sometimes though and have had to put it down for a week or so and read a few light hearted books or school books. I really love this book though....still a few hundred pages from finishing but this is an amazing read. It has also challenged me to think in different ways about things such as religion. One moment I'm enraged by Christians and the next I'm quoting "All Gods are one God" and such....
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It took me forever to finish this book...for many reasons. Towards the end I didn't want it to end so I kept dragging it out. I LOVE this book. It's very well written. Morgan la Fey is now one of my favorite characters in literature. On one hand my heart was broken by this book and on the other hand my heart and soul were comforted.
For the most part I feel like Bradley did a wonderful job representing the period and the people. There were moments though when I could tell it was written in the 1960s. Such moments as when the females were thinking about how they longed to keep their thin figures. I've not studied that period very much but I was under the impression food was scarce enough that being slightly plump was in fashion because it meant you actually ate. The women this story were constantly not eating and thinking about how thin some other woman was and being jealous or the like. I'm not sure if this was a reflection of the period or the 1960s. Besides a few moments like that the book seemed to be true to the period.
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It took me forever to finish this book...for many reasons. Towards the end I didn't want it to end so I kept dragging it out. I LOVE this book. It's very well written. Morgan la Fey is now one of my favorite characters in literature. On one hand my heart was broken by this book and on the other hand my heart and soul were comforted.
For the most part I feel like Bradley did a wonderful job representing the period and the people. There were moments though when I could tell it was written in the 1960s. Such moments as when the females were thinking about how they longed to keep their thin figures. I've not studied that period very much but I was under the impression food was scarce enough that being slightly plump was in fashion because it meant you actually ate. The women this story were constantly not eating and thinking about how thin some other woman was and being jealous or the like. I'm not sure if this was a reflection of the period or the 1960s. Besides a few moments like that the book seemed to be true to the period.