A review by mlcharacter
The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once & Future King by T.H. White

3.0

The Once and Future King is one of my favorite books of all time-- it's deeply beautiful and philosophical. It starts lighthearted (you know, the part that became a Disney movie) with a healthy sense of humor and is slow, elegiac, heartbreaking and mature by the end. It was an interesting curiosity to read this original but not included final book of TOaFK but it was absolutely right for it not to be included. It has flashes of what's beautiful about TOaFK but also doesn't manage to gather the escape velocity dogmatics need to become palatable or artistic.