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Review: As you can probably tell by other reviews, most people either hate this book or love it. I'm of the former school. While I acknowledge its importance as a "feminist-revisionist" approach to Arthurian myth, I'm just not a content-over-form type of reader. This book is abominably didactic, not to mention **very** poorly written. The dialogue is horrible. MZB's prose is stilted & amateurish (at best) & the whole thing just reeks of that cheesy neo-Druid goddess-worship that calls itself feminism. And those who accuse MZB of religious bias are correct. The anti-Xian stuff is a given, I think, but expected considering the book's subject matter. I wasn't bothered by it. However, Bradley is also pretty harsh on atheists & agnostics (like myself)-- in fact, she's pretty much harsh on anyone who doesn't subscribe to a very specific sect of paganism... Anyhow, there's better stuff out there, but if you're into all that pagan-"feminism" stuff, this is probably the book for you.
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