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| Original Title: | Taliesin. Book I of the Pendragon Cycle |
| ISBN: | 038070613X (ISBN13: 9780380706136) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.stephenlawhead.com/books/pendragoncycle/taliesin.shtml |
| Series: | The Pendragon Cycle #1 |
| Characters: | Taliesin |
Stephen R. Lawhead
Paperback | Pages: 496 pages Rating: 3.99 | 15251 Users | 617 Reviews
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It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis. Taliesin is the remarkable adventure of Charis, the Atlantean princess who escaped the terrible devastation of her homeland, and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. It is the story of an incomparable love that joined two worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawned the miracles of Merlin...and Arthur the king.
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| Title | : | Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1) |
| Author | : | Stephen R. Lawhead |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 496 pages |
| Published | : | August 26th 1998 by Harper Voyager (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mythology. Arthurian |
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Ratings: 3.99 From 15251 Users | 617 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1)
This book made me angry. I've read several takes on the Arthurian legend, and I've disliked a few, but none of them pissed me off as much as this one. The only possible reason I can conceive of for it's existence is to serve as a counter point to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon, in much the same way as Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials is a counter point to C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.Let's begin. The world building is a bit shoddy. It's set in the 4th century, but for someBegin your Lawhead reading here. In my humble opinion this is Lawhead's best, least cyclical work of the Pendragon series. From reading the other reviews you probably have a plot summary of what's going on. Thus, I won't bore you with them.THE GOOD ASPECTS OF THE BOOK (and the first few books in the series)Since no one rightly knows what, if anything, happened to the City of Atlantis, mankind is free to speculate and write fiction about it. The author is to be commended for his retelling of the
Of all of the great books I've read around the King Arthur legend, this is my favorite. It is acutally about Merlin's parents, and involves the lost city of Atlantis and it is a beautiful but sad love story. At least that is what I feel when I remember the book; it has been years since I read it. [time passes:] I just looked it up to see if it is still in print, which it is. And what's more interesting is that the description on Amazon talks of a message and symbolism in the story akin to C.S.
Reading Porius reminded me how much I liked this book when I was 12 or 13 and got it from a little bookshop in North Wales. I figure if it stayed with me this long, it must be worth 4 stars at least.
Wow. Just wow. I don't think there's much more I can say. It was an amazing read. Best ever Arthurian retelling.There is so much to love about Taliesin starting with the names. They're all so pretty and lilting and beautiful, and I wish people had names like that nowdays.Every single one of the characters is real and so 3-D. Charis and Taliesin, and all the rest were real and I completely lived the story through their experience. The struggles and thoughts they had were all so believable and
Tried it a second time and I'm the first to admit this time it was purely my own fault that I didn't get further than page 100 -- I'd borrowed the audiobook while listening to something else, and then once I got around to Taliesin I had 6 days in which to read it, listened for 2 days and then missed 3 because of a combination of things -- once again, mainly not in the mood for it. But I was unable to renew it so it had to go back into the system so the rest of the people with holds on it can
Of all of the great books I've read around the King Arthur legend, this is my favorite. It is acutally about Merlin's parents, and involves the lost city of Atlantis and it is a beautiful but sad love story. At least that is what I feel when I remember the book; it has been years since I read it. [time passes:] I just looked it up to see if it is still in print, which it is. And what's more interesting is that the description on Amazon talks of a message and symbolism in the story akin to C.S.
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