He sometimes appears to mock them and their ways (oh, especially those blundering old knights.), other times he pities them, but mostly, I felt as though he was trying to understand them and why they made the choices they did. He's like your friend or fellow book club member, who just happened to be there, in the middle ages, and he's telling you the story with his own language and always using references to modern day concerns and people.
White, our beloved author, is a genius, really. The first section of the book is essentially the Disney movie, and that part does grab you and you love Wart so much that you keep reading just to find out how it ends for him (although, it got harder and harder to keep reading for a while there, in the middle - it got a bit slow). This book is so much more than just Arthur and Camelot. Then my book club chose this as our monthly selection and I finally decided it was time to tackle this monster. Ever since I saw the musical "Camelot" in the theater when I was in high school, the story just didn't appeal to me.
It's been a while since I read a serious chunkster like that (besides Harry Potter, which somehow in my mind doesn't really count.).īesides that, I am just not a fan of "Authur" stories, despite my deep love of the Disney movie The Sword and the Stone, of course.
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