I'm glad that i've read an actual book about King Arthur. It was really interesting to realize that Disney's The Sword in the Stone is based on the first part of this book. And the book is much better, of course. That part was a lot of fun to read. But then it got Real, and it got kind of tragic and plodding and even grotesque at times, and it took me over two months to get through this whole story of King Arthur. 
 AND THEN THE END WAS ALL AMBIGUOUS. GOD i hate that!! I want to know what HAPPENED. I read this whole freaking book and then the end just happens in a paragraph and it's very vague and i don't really know what happened to all of the characters i'd been invested in all this time. Why?! 
 The characters i liked the most, namely Arthur and Merlyn, got a lot less attention than i wish they would've. And the two who really take center stage in the book--Lancelot and Guenever--are kind of annoying. Over all, i just wanted something more like Gormenghast, i think. Beautiful language and somewhat tragic and dark story with some flawed characters but with a shred of something to revel in at the end. That's all i ask.