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	Title / Year, Comments	Ages	Add Date
	Here Lies Arthur (Hardcover, 2008) By Philip Reeve	Young Adults	4/9/2009 Add
	safarrell said: Intriguing revisionist version of the Arthur story - Arthur is essentially a 6th century barbarian hit man, and his heroic image is crafted by Merlin, the original spin doctor, with the help of a young girl who "plays" the Lady of the Lake. Very imaginative story - I fear, however, that young readers will miss the irony of the "postmodern" interpretation (morality is entirely subjective) and instead come away with the message "a bully can be a hero ... if someone just makes up a good enough story!" tags: I read