The Mists of Avalon vs The Once and Future King: Which Should You Read?

The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley · 1979 ★★★★☆ 4.1 876 pages · ≈ 16 h 13 m · Moderate

“lands of Lyonnesse and Ys; on a clear day, so the fisherman said, their old castles could be seen far out under the water. But to Igraine they looked like towers of rock, ancient mountains and hills drowned by the ever encroaching sea that nibbled away, even now, at the very crags below the castle.”

When Morgan le Fay (Morgaine) has to sacrifice her virginity during fertility rites, the man who impregnates her is her younger brother Arthur, who she turns against when she thinks he has betrayed the old religion of…

The Once and Future King T. H. White · 1939 ★★★★☆ 3.9 677 pages · ≈ 12 h 32 m · Challenging

“ON Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology.”

T. H. White's modern classic about King Arthur. This particular edition may have been published in Russia, but it is in fact written in English. I just finished reading this edition on the Open Library. I wonder why it…