Reviews for Fables

The average rating for Fables based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-05-08 00:00:00 Huhuh Milap The Quest for the Holy Grail is, in the Vulgate Cycle, very much like some other version I've read -- Malory, I think it must be? Lots of self-flagellation on Lancelot's part, lots of glorifying Galahad, although he seems to be somewhat less insufferable in this version. Perceval's at least half-decent, too. No harping on about how ignorant and stupid he is, nor blaming it on the fact that he's Welsh. That counts as half-decent to me. As usual, in grail stories (apart from the German one, The Crown), Gawain is faithless and sinful and horrible and blah, blah, blah. Which contrasts strongly with his characterisation earlier in the cycle. The French tradition as represented by the Vulgate and Chrétien de Troyes is particularly odd about Gawain, actually -- it often does this, where Gawain is peerless at one point and then disgraceful in another. Like the other volumes of this series, it's well-translated, with helpful notes referring you back and forward in the text and clarifying its oddities (e.g. referring to an event it claims to have described, but which it has not even referred to before).

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-28 00:00:00 Sonia Malda Fables that point out human weakness without ever becoming negative; as such the lessons taught are taught with the hope that a weakness perceived can be improved upon with diligence.