Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood #1) Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

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Title	:	Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood #1)
Author	:	Robert Holdstock
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2003 by Orb Books (first published 1984)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Mythology. Urban Fantasy. Horror

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The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's entire, and long, life. Now, after his death, his sons have taken up his work. But what they discover is beyond what they could have expected. For the Wood is a realm where myths gain flesh and blood, tapping primal fears and desires subdued through the millennia. A realm where love and beauty haunt your dreams -- and may drive you insane.

Mythago Wood won the World Fantasy Award on its first publication in 1984, and secured Robert Holdstock's reputation as one of the major fantasy writers of our time. Now it returns to print in America for the first time in nearly a decade.

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Original Title:	Mythago Wood
ISBN:	0765307294 (ISBN13: 9780765307293)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Mythago Wood #1
Characters:	George Huxley
Setting:	England
Literary Awards:	World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1985), British Science Fiction Association Award for Novel (1984)

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Ratings: 3.81 From 8243 Users | 688 Reviews

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Rating in the high 3's, so round upto 4 stars as tis summit different & for the most part engaging.Lion, the witch & the wardrobe for adults perhaps......? As it has mythical elements, enchantment & aspects of time travel through a wood. I think my updates along the way will let you know whats involved & how the journey unravels..... if it's mythical figures through time, touch of paranormal, heroic figures, a damsel..... one more of a Celtic nature though so defo not a fairy

What starts as an intriguing concept begins to unravel due to poor pacing and plotting.The premise of this one is really, really high-concept and it is thus:A family lives near an ancient 'old-growth' wood. This is a small forest that has existed since medieval times and even back before that. The father, a scholar, is obsessed with the wood and often disappears for weeks at a time to plumb its depths. Why he is gone for that long is a mystery to his family because, you see, the wood is not very

I would classify this book as high concept fantasy. Certainly, it is not to everyone's taste. I can sympathize with this, as sometimes I feel like I admire this book more than enjoy it. Holdstock works through a lot of interesting ideas. The title Mythago Wood refers to a stand of West Midlands primeval forest that, like the TARDIS, is bigger within than without. The forest has an aura that interacts with the mytho-creative aspects of people's minds to produce mythagos, which are expressions of

I am not the ideal audience for this book. This is a book that takes the idea of fantasy very, very seriously. There is little love, or sense of joy in the magic; this is obsession and wildness, and while I'm a fan of pursuing passion and all things wild, this is the dreamscape extreme that occurred after a few too many tipples before bed.Mythago Wood feels like a gothic fantasy, as if Jung and perhaps one of those Victorian spinsters got together and wove a tale about a small English family,

As I get more experienced in fantasy genre I rarely have "Well this is unlike anything I have read before" moments. Luckily I still get them and Mythago wood is one of those books. Inspired by British and Celtic myths and legends with added just a tiny bit of late Gothic flavor this book builds it's story slowly and methodically. Despite it's slow pace it was never a dull book because in those slow parts atmosphere is being created, characters developed and world more shaped out.I can't really

This book is, simply put - wonderful. I heard of it sometime in the early 2000s. I had wanted to read it but for one reason or another it would just remain on the reading list, waiting.If only I had known how wonderful it is I would have read it a long time ago.The idea of crating a world in the misty areas where imagination, myth and dreams overlap and the resulting story kept me mesmerized from the first to the last page.The narration is wonderful, it is so stylistically polished that it

This is the Island where Dreams come true.That's the island I've been looking for this long time, said one of the sailors. I reckoned I'd find I was married to Nancy if we landed here.And I'd find Tom alive again, said another.Fools! said the man, stamping his foot with rage. That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreamsdreams, do you understand, come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.There was