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Intertextuality heaven: "The star the cup the cross"  
This book sustained me through college and continues to sustain me through life.

It is a book for lovers of books and lovers of words.

Classic medieval or Renaissance majors will be in heaven.

As will anyone who enjoyed their time (or who continues to) in the Ivory Tower.

Dont let this book fade away as if it never were.

It is far too beautiful not to be read once and then again and then many times over.
: 2010-09-16 01:44:53

Outdated Fairy Tale Retelling at a Liberal Arts College  
I feel like this is one of those books that you either lovelovelove or hatehatehate. Those who love it do so because of Pamela Deans skillful descriptions of life at a liberal arts college in the mid-70s. Those who hate it complain about the fake pretentious characters the slow pace and the too-detailed descriptions and dialogue.

Me I guess Im in the second camp. I heard such good things about this book and so ordered it with high hopes. However I found the characters annoying and unrealistic. Im attending a liberal arts college now but no one I know speaks in such a high-fallutin quote-filled manner. I found myself irritated at the overexuberant descriptions of the campus; must NOTHING be left for me to imagine? Must I know the location of every building bridge rock and tree on Blackstones campus?

TAM LIN is more a detailed sketch of college life rather than a retelling of a fairy tale. I was disappointed that there was not more fantasy in it--guess I was exp : 2010-09-16 01:44:53

There is literally no story  
The cover suggests an actual amount of fantasy involved. All I got was "Diary of an English major". Heres my summation of the plot. Girl goes to college reads books gets a boyfriend reads books thinks theres something fishy about the Classics department reads books time goes on more reading of the books excessive disscusion of the reading of the books girl finds out boyfriend is not for her and breaks up with him reads more books more talking about the books tiresome quoting from the books develops a mild interest in exboyfriend of aquaintance reads books sleeps with him in a practice room finds out shes pregnant (oh and he kinda tricked her into getting pregnant) finds out hes the magical slave of the weird head of the Classics department and finally reenacts a scene from classic literature and saves boyfriend from the evil Classics department. This book was so laden down with books and talking about books and quoting book after book (98% of which I have never heard of) trying to find : 2010-09-16 01:44:53

The truly Fae...  
I acknowledge that some might detest this book. Those who are looking for flamboyant faerie stories are definitely in the wrong place. The story told here is a beautiful interpretation of the ballad of Tam Lin and sets the idea of what it would be like to encounter a fae court hidden in the American Midwest during the 1970s. This book will probably only be the favorites of wordsmiths wizards (as defined in Diane Duanes So you Want to Be A Wizard) folklorists and Classics Majors. None the less is it the most wonderful interpretation I have read of any lore since I started reading Shakespeare on my own at 12. : 2010-09-16 01:44:53

Poetic Snoozefest  
This book is very peaceful dreamy and slow paced with a lot of exposition. It is really a work of literary fiction with a magical subtext running through; not a genre fantasy. While there were many successful elements such as literary allusions and the evocation of 70s college life I thought it was extremely boring with minimal plot development and the characters were such geeks they made me want to scream. : 2010-09-16 01:44:53

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