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I found it extraordinarily boring. Rebekah Send a noteboard - 10/10/2015 12:18:54 PM

View original postBesides that, Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur which so far is... not what I expected. I love some of the expressions and phrases used, but on the whole it's mystifying me how a work like that, unabashedly summarizing and copying earlier works, can be as seen as a major classic.

But managed to get through the whole thing. It was basically a fight scene on every page.
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