The Witch in the Wood & The Ill-Made Knight

Ugh. I love this book to bits. I love it in an omnibus, I love it in individual volumes. I love it on paper, I love it on audio. I've read it backwards and forwards, and every time I do I find a new element to love. The Sword in the Stone is most well known and perhaps best beloved, for it dispenses......more

I'm surprised to find, rereading this series not that long after I originally read it, how much more I am enjoying it the second time around. Certainly, there is plenty of dated language, especially some racial slurs we wouldn't use so casually these days, and I think the women might be a little mor......more

I only listened to the first book (The Witch in the Wood), which was dark enough, and gave up partway through the second. The whole Guinevere/Lancelot slo-mo trainwreck was just too depressing.......more

I was happy to find this on audio because I'm working on reading all of the parts of Once and Future King for book club. I wasn't crazy about this though. I've never read any King Arthur stories before tackling The Sword and the Stone and this one, so I really didn't know what to expect. One thing I......more

Finally, at long last, an audio version of The Once & Future King. Actually, this edition encompasses only the second and third books in the volume known to readers as The Once & Future King. The narrator is fantastic. T.H. Whites excellent dialogue characterizations literally come to life and dance......more