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Merlin - Stephen Lawhead

Description: ISBN 0380708892 / Author: Stephen Lawhead / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / An epic set Against the Backcloth of a Roman Britain and Celtic ... more

Merlin - Stephen Lawhead ... Legend.

Newest Review: ... towards any mystical goings on. ‘Merlin’ is in fact the second instalment of the Pendragon series, and it follows up ... more

... ‘Taliesin’ in much the same way; as a very boring vehicle for Stephen Lawhead to parade his history skills. It is quite feasible to read ‘Merlin’ without having read the first novel, since each book in this series merely tells the tale of one generation without leaving any threads unsolved. In other words, you’re reading five books about five different people, all of whom are supposed to be closely related yet require separate books…Lawhead having some contract issues perhaps? Ah, whatever, my point was that you can feel f...more

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Merlin - Stephen Lawhead: Dull City, Population; Merlin (718 words)
by - written on 11/06/05 (Very useful, 152 readings)
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The legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is a mythical cultural icon that Britain has cherished and puzzled over for centuries now. There are God only knows how many different versions of the same basic tale, and as a result there’s the straight-laced warrior version, the romantic Camelot version and the completely fantastical magical Merlin version. Last year’s disastrous film outing with Clive Owen was surely proof enough that the public don’t want the dull, Arthur-was-just-a-brave-but-regular-guy version. Since Stephen Lawhead is a science fiction author, and the book in question is entitled ‘Merlin’, a.k.a Arthur’s dark, magical sidekick, you ... Read the complete review