A review by swoody788
Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory

3.0

Talk about a doozy. This is one of those audiobooks that makes me eternally grateful for the 1.5 speed button, so that I could listen to it in two-thirds of the time. Unfortunately I didn't remember that I could do this until after I had already made it through a third of the story, but alas, better late than never. This work makes me appreciate T.H. White and The Once and Future King so much more, for White's ability to take all of this dry information and weave it into the beautiful, captivating tale that Le Morte d'Arthur is not.

But...I appreciate Le Morte d'Arthur for what it is - the granddaddy of Arthurian legend, a catalog rather than a novel of the exploits of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Much of what we have today in the whole realm of fantasy would not exist without this work, so, if for no other reason, I like it for that.

Also, I find Monty Python and the Holy Grail to be even more hilarious now that I have this tome under my belt.

Hic iacet Arthurus, rex quondam, rexque futurus