bailedIt‘s not the introduction. It‘s the book. Kill me now. The most exciting part of this book is the cover. Literally.
Reads like a piece of bad academia. It gives very dry, academic descriptions of faerielore without ever showing the great life, depth, color, wonder, or beauty that exists within these stories. Active use of passive voice makes this even dryer. Yeats‘s poetry is wonderful, but this is rambling and painful to read. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
GingerAntics It‘s like having someone tell you about the great folktales he‘s been told, who can‘t really tell stories. I know Yeats is better than this. I just can‘t do this. Halfway through and you couldn‘t pay me enough to make me keep reading this crap. Somehow he‘s taken these fun stories and made them as dull as humanly possible. #wbyeats #celtictwilight #dnf #totaldisappointment #killme 6y
Bookwomble I had a not dissimilar reaction when I read it. Have you read the tagged book? That one I enjoyed, though read in the '80s, so my memory is dim.![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 6y
Fairy-Faith in Celtic CountriesGingerAntics @Bookwomble it sounds familiar. I‘m going to have to double check. 6y
wordzie ❤ the review 6y
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