http://ziamunshi.com/2006/01/the-once-and-future-king-th-white/ Scratchings and Jotlings on Books, Houses, Pets, Art, the Exigencies of Daily Existence, and Other Ephemera Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:31:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://ziamunshi.com/2006/01/the-once-and-future-king-th-white/#comment-164 Nom de Plume » The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:48:56 +0000 http://ziamunshi.com/2006/01/11/the-once-and-future-king-th-white/#comment-164 [...] After reading The Once and Future King (and deciding to become an armchair Arthuran scholar), I checked out a bunch of other novels on King Arthur. This was one. And by golly, it’s a hard slog. I started three weeks ago, got sidetracked with Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills (both fun), and finally lost all patience with it last night. It’s a feminist retelling of the tale — which is great, except the only way to give women power in an age when they really didn’t have much of it is to imbue them all supernatural powers. In fact, they all seem like new age earth mothers, babbling about reincarnation and previous lives and Wicca that’s called something else. Next up? Mallory’s Morte D’Arthur. « The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley   [...] […] After reading The Once and Future King (and deciding to become an armchair Arthuran scholar), I checked out a bunch of other novels on King Arthur. This was one. And by golly, it’s a hard slog. I started three weeks ago, got sidetracked with Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills (both fun), and finally lost all patience with it last night. It’s a feminist retelling of the tale — which is great, except the only way to give women power in an age when they really didn’t have much of it is to imbue them all supernatural powers. In fact, they all seem like new age earth mothers, babbling about reincarnation and previous lives and Wicca that’s called something else. Next up? Mallory’s Morte D’Arthur. « The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley   […]

]]> http://ziamunshi.com/2006/01/the-once-and-future-king-th-white/#comment-163 Nom de Plume » The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:46:57 +0000 http://ziamunshi.com/2006/01/11/the-once-and-future-king-th-white/#comment-163 [...] After reading The Once and Future King (and deciding to become an armchair Arthuran scholar), I checked out a bunch of other novels on King Arthur. This was one. And by golly, it’s a hard slog. I started three weeks ago, got sidetracked with Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills (both fun), and finally lost all patience with it last night. It’s a feminist retelling of the tale — which is great, except the only way to give women power in an age when they really didn’t have much of it is to imbue them all supernatural powers. In fact, they all seem like new age earth mothers, babbling about reincarnation and previous lives and Wicca that’s called something else. Next up? Mallory’s Morte D’Arthur. « Harry Rediscovers the Joys of Hemp   [...] […] After reading The Once and Future King (and deciding to become an armchair Arthuran scholar), I checked out a bunch of other novels on King Arthur. This was one. And by golly, it’s a hard slog. I started three weeks ago, got sidetracked with Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills (both fun), and finally lost all patience with it last night. It’s a feminist retelling of the tale — which is great, except the only way to give women power in an age when they really didn’t have much of it is to imbue them all supernatural powers. In fact, they all seem like new age earth mothers, babbling about reincarnation and previous lives and Wicca that’s called something else. Next up? Mallory’s Morte D’Arthur. « Harry Rediscovers the Joys of Hemp   […]

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