just started reading this, and enjoying it so farhad to bust out a dictionary for shit like "fewmets"
>>25478454I am thinking of reading thisWhats it like?
I found it really boring.
>>25478666NTA. Books 1, 2, and 3 are amazing. 4 and 5 are somewhat underwhelming, but the previous books are self contained enough that it doesn't really matter.Just make sure you get the original edition of book 1 and 2, because most omnibus versions of The Once and Future King contain later editions that are not quite as good:- for book 1 the Harper Collins (ISBN 9780007370740) is the original version iirc- for book 2, the original version is quite difficult and expensive to find legally, but someone has uploaded a scan to the usual places a few years ago. The MD5 of the file is d4aeb87292c8bfd2cfd7a454487e3301
>>25478672I find you really boring.
>>25478454>he doesn't know what fewmets means
>"Damned niggers," he was mumbling.
>"So little time to pass?"fuck>>25478666only a few chapters in, satan, so you have to give me a few days
>>25478454Was that in the dictionary?
>>25480049yeah"mutes" was not, though. i've learned a lot of falconry terms the last few(mets) days
>>25478666Sometimes reads like a research paper
>>25478672I found your mom really boring. Sorry, I mean to say I found myself really boring. Boring deep into your mom's asshole, that is, with my huge penor.
>>25478454yes stephen is king of slop writing
>[Merlyn] said he would not use magic. He said you could not use magic in Great Arts, just as it would be unfair to make a great statue by magic. You have to cut it out with a chisel, you see.Seems timely, with so many people adopting AI slop.
>Pax..... Non!the joust between King Pellinore and Sir Grummore read like a Monty Python skit
>>25479275wasn't expecting that from a bird
>>25478666You ever see Disney's Sword in the Stone?
>>25478454genuinely happy for youit is a comfy book>>25478666a much more intelligent version of your favourite Disney animal movie>>25479275based Cully
Just finished it! It's a tremendous collection, really incredible writing, I thought. 'Sword & Stone's is by far the most light-hearted of the stories; the later books are deep and tragic, "elbow deep in blood". Def seems to be written as an ode to Britain (English + Gaelic) cultural history with the word usage, but I eventually stopped hitting up the dictionary and just inferred word meaning so I could finish. Hope you enjoy it. Has made me want to tackle Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' next, similar themes on why do men fight and what is "right"
>>25484858Also not OP, just to clarify
Morgan le Fey writhing in her lard bed in her butter castle made my pee pee feel weird
>>25484858that seems to be the sentiment. makes me wonder what the other 3 stories are like.more than half way through sword and the stonethe dog boy and wat live noselessly together happily ever after sleeping on the floor with the dogsthe ant nest was pretty brow beaten
I found it pretty disappointing after reading all thr classical Arthurian stories and hearing that this was the definitive modern version. It just meandering and self-indulgent, and full of that style of tryhard British humor that's not as wity as it thinks it is, which wasn't nearly as bad as White's waxing endlessly about why war is bad. I don't want to read pages and pages of some old queer wallowing in self-pity.Read Guite instead.
>>25488421sword and the stone feels like a kids chapter book compared to the rest of the volumes. ill made knight is the best piece of fantasy literature ever written.
>>25488592>ill made knight is the best piece of fantasy literature ever written.It might be advisable to wait until after you've read your second fantasy book before you make that declaration.
>>25488604name 5 better fantasy books
>>25488640The HobbitThe Lord of The RingsThe Voyage of The Dawn TreaderThe Magician's NephewThe Black Spider
>we need at least 6 quests to pursue us everyday to be healthyQuesting Beast bros....
almost done with sword and the stonelast time i'll bump this threadit's probably a good thing merlyn turned wart into a shitbrid (goose) rather than a duck
>>25488592I'll made knight was so-so. The best is the Queen of Darkness
>>25479815The "so little time to pass" line is really great, glad you're enjoying it. This is probably my favorite book of all time. White said that the Arthurian stuff was the perfect tragedy and I don't think anyone's given it as good a treatment at the human level.>>25484858So many kino moments. At the end of the first book when Arthur pulls the sword out of the stone he starts begging "no, please no," or something like that and it perfectly capped what I consider a perfect book. The vignettes with the ants, then with the geese, and the badger's question to Arthur later on, "Well, what did you prefer - the ants, or the geese?" was just too goodfuck I have to reread this now
>>25494396>"Well, what did you prefer - the ants, or the geese?"i went to a silent bookclub meeting this evening, finished sword in the stone, and quoted this to someone when talking about the book afterwardsi was also talking with a black lady, but didn't quite recommend it to them because of >>25479275looking forward to the next book, the queen of air and darkness
>"A nigromancer", said Gareth
i didn't like the part where he threatens to eat a hedgehog
>>25496325>eatyou mean MUNCH a hedge-piewhat got me was the actual badger usually "just munched them up. There is something irresistible about pork crackling."
>>25478454These yellow mass market paperbacks were great.
>>25496325Grow a pair
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