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michellemorgs 's review for:
The Once and Future King
by T.H. White
I’m re-reading a few things I loved in hs but never re-read and this is one of them.
I loved this book then and I very much enjoyed it, now. Adult me is proud of hs me for sticking with The Once and Future King-the first quarter of the book has a lot of chunks written in dialect or some approximation of a dialect and it took me some time to pick through it.
It’s as I remembered though-warm, witty, thoughtful. Other reviews on here discuss the structure and the Disney cartoon The Sword in the Stone (which my grandmother had on VHS and would put on every now and then for me and my brother if the weather prevented us from being outside)- the first section of TOAFK is the basis for that.
The second half of the book is what appealed most to my teenaged heart-the love triangle of “Jenny,” Lancelot, and Arthur. I wish we had discussed then White’s repressed homosexuality and the likely way that it impacted the sexual politics of this book, but I guess that’s a lot to ask of a hs course in rural Maine in 1995.
I loved this book then and I very much enjoyed it, now. Adult me is proud of hs me for sticking with The Once and Future King-the first quarter of the book has a lot of chunks written in dialect or some approximation of a dialect and it took me some time to pick through it.
It’s as I remembered though-warm, witty, thoughtful. Other reviews on here discuss the structure and the Disney cartoon The Sword in the Stone (which my grandmother had on VHS and would put on every now and then for me and my brother if the weather prevented us from being outside)- the first section of TOAFK is the basis for that.
The second half of the book is what appealed most to my teenaged heart-the love triangle of “Jenny,” Lancelot, and Arthur. I wish we had discussed then White’s repressed homosexuality and the likely way that it impacted the sexual politics of this book, but I guess that’s a lot to ask of a hs course in rural Maine in 1995.