Mythago Wood: 1 (Mythago Cycle)

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There is so much to dislike about this book, but I’ll start with what I detest the most: the dull yet offensive plot.

I cannot remember my folklore well enough, but it intrigues me to think that tales -of Arthur and his Knights, perhaps (Sir Kay? Selfish love, the possession of the love object, the damsel in distress are the disappointing propulsive factors. His story, 'The Ragthorn', written with friend and fellow author Garry Kilworth, won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella and the BSFA Award for Short Fiction. I have a feeling that the books in the series build on each other and my appreciation for the first one will only deepen as I read the rest of the series.I was hoping for another all-time favorite, to join books like Oryx and Crake or The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It has received critical acclaim for the quality of its prose, its forest setting, and its exploration of philosophical, spiritual and psychological themes. I mean, I probably would have enjoyed it MORE had it gotten REALLY wonky with some better self-referential, partway meta core myths to work from, but this one hearkens back to a mix of Grail and directly-earlier influences. The book itself is often listed as a modern classic - that and the subsequent sequels are listed in the top titles (as shown by their recent reprinting in the Fantasy Master series - still think the cover of my copy is better).

Stephen also meets a local man named Harry Keeton, a burn-scarred ex- RAF pilot, who encountered a similar wood when he was shot down over France and has since been trying to find a city that he saw there. These fairy tales were myths about imagined (or real) magical tree beings and transformed woodsmen or vegetation god or goddess warriors living in deep forests.As they are formed from human myths, they vary in appearance and character depending on the human memories from which they formed. There are also airborne defences to prevent aircraft from getting too close, such as vortices of air or air elementals that throw an aircraft off course.

Esa paradoja donde todos los recuerdos de héroes y leyendas que han estado presentes en la humanidad siguen vivos, renacen y se van transformando en un ciclo sin fin, es fantástico y muy original. Suddenly, it turned into a quest and struggle for survival that was not quite as fascinating as the learning process was, though there were definitely some fun parts. George Huxley, επιστρέφει μετά τον πόλεμο στο σπίτι του, εκεί που μεγάλωσε, δίπλα στο δάσος του Ryhope. Embedded in the text is an aspect of the tale of Gawain and the Green Knight, and Jason — an older, more savage Jason than the figure from the Greek myth — appears in a cameo role, a set-piece tale that stands apart from the rest of the book. Strange things go on here and its hard to talk about them without giving the storyline away just to say that the book plays on the primal fears and imaginations of what goes on in the deep dark works just over the way.There were what I can only describe as "jumps" in the story, where for example a character suddenly understands a previously incomprehensible language. They exist as ghosts at the peripheral of their vision, but the longer they stay in the woods the more substantial these manifestations become. Una obra distinta con toques de mitología y realismo mágico, con ambientes inquietantes y gran profundidad onírica. In addition the desire to uncover the ultimate meaning behind the forest's mysterious power push the Huxley's to overcome the obstacles and traps that the forest constantly puts in their way.

He soon discovers his brother has been drawn into the mystery of the wood, and its not long before he is disappearing for weeks at a time while Steven keeps house and waits.Steven Huxley, poco después de finalizar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, regresa a Refugio del Roble, en Inglaterra, la finca en la que pasó la mayor parte de su vida junto a su hermano Christian, su madre enferma, y su padre, obsesionado con sus investigaciones sobre el cercano Bosque de Ryhope.