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The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander

The Black Cauldron (The Chronicles of Prydain, #2)The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Second verse, same as etc. More juvenile contemplations of maturity against the backdrop of magical questing. Apparently this book left an impression on me as a child. The cauldron into which dead soldiers are placed to turn them into undead warriors was creepy, but not creepy enough to justify my whole body shudder. The hindbrain did not forget, apparently.

Still very young books, still not a lot of there there. Which is surprising, since this book features competing examples of how to go to one's death when one knows it is coming. But still. Very young.




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