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i am reading off and on the Mists of Avalon and i have three of her other books upstairs. She is a great author i will deff. give her that.

I love marion zimmer bradley but i havent found a site to list al lher books. i would really liek to because i have only seen like four of her books and one in a diffrent series of more sci fi that didnt seem that great.

if anyone has a link that would be great.

thanks. i will take a look at that later wheni have more time and then copy some of them down.

You're welcome, I've read all but one of her avalon series, and most of her darkover books. Tehy run through a range of what her writing is like, so if you want any opinion on them, or summaries or anything, don't be afraid to ask. wink

Yeah, but I am getting much better at summarizing (or perhaprs better called synopsis?) with out actually telling what goes on. However if you don't want to konw, I won't tell people what they don't want to hear. At least with books... I think I bug my friends with random bits of infomation and advice far more often than what is probably good for any of us. xp

What, your school library has her books? You lucky.

I've read The Mists Of Avalon, about a year or more ago. It was kinda interesting while reading, but come to think of it it was a very slow read and nothing special.

I just finished The Firebrand last night, for a school assignment, and it was pretty good. I liked it better than The Mists of Avalon, although it had the same stretch of "this is boring, I don't want to read this anymore" as the other book did. I also saw a lot of parallels from characters in The Firebrand to characters in The Mists of Avalon. That's not bad, mind you, but I couldn't help but compare them. Kassandra appeals to me much more than Morgaine ever did; Paris, who reminded me of Lancelet, was much more annoying than Lancelet was; and while Helen reminds me of Gwenhwyfar, whom I despise, she's also a much better character, in my opinion.

I'm probably just biased; I prefer the story of Troy to that of Arthur. There's more to it.

I quite admire Marion Zimmer Bradley's ability to give (mostly) non-magical explanations to things that were put down to some magical happenstance in other versions of the story. For example, Akhilles' fall to Kassandra's arrow; the heel was the place she shot because his armor covered everywhere else. It was never said that he'd been dunked in the River Styx, just that his armor was superior to the weapons that the Trojans had.

Anyway. That's all I really wanted to say.

mists of avalon was the best!!