Comments on: The Hollow Hills, Mary Stewart

By: Swapna

Swapna — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:13:17 +0000

I’ve read Le Morte, Idylls, the first two Chretien poems (I have all 5 but I find it hard to motivate myself to read poetry these days). I’ve read Lawhead, but ironically my favorite book of that series is Avalon, which is the return of King Arthur. Cornwell’s series is eh, I enjoyed Jack Whyte, but it’s almost more Ancient Rome than Arthurian, so if you like that you’ll probably like those. I really enjoyed The Return of Merlin by Deepak Chopra (who knew?) and The Dark is Rising series (childrens books, but they’re incredibly well written and are what got me into reading about King Arthur in the first place!) It’s always nice to meet another Arthurian fan!

By: Meghan

Meghan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:12:09 +0000

I’ve read a ton of Arthurian fiction – I’ve read the original Welsh poems, excerpts from various chronicles, the work of Chretien de Troyes, Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (I took a class on Arthurian lit), and some modern stuff – The Once and Future King and Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar Tapestry are the only ones that spring to mind just now, but I have plenty of others. I’ve got the rest of this series, the beginnings of Lawhead’s cycle, and the first of that Jack Whyte series on my TBR mountain. Also planning on reading Bernard Cornwell’s trilogy once I get the first one.

Assuming you’ll check back to this comment, what else have you read? Anything particularly good that I really, really need to read?

By: S. Krishna

S. Krishna — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:44:59 +0000

Wow, another Arthurian fan! What other variations on the legend have you read? The Merlin trilogy is one of my favorites.