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Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

July 23, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Mythic: definitely a twist on [Orpheus / Eurydice] within the pantheon of the Grecian God myths! Hmmm as I periodically think, I wish Goodreads let you give book half star ratings because this definitely positively falls under a 3.5 star rating. I think I wasn’t as into this as I thought I would be given the blurb, and then towards the end I was very into it and pretty shocked to find out that I only had about half an hour left–not because I thought […]

My dream cast for Gods Behaving Badly

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

July 11, 2021 by msvreadsbooks 3 Comments

I picked this book up because I love a mythical retelling, and it was pretty fun. The entire time I was reading this book, I kept trying to think about the casting, because I think it would be a fun movie or miniseries. And because I’m a sucker for polytheistic, supernatural beings being forced to live in the modern world. Gods Behaving Badly finds the Olympian gods trapped in a house in London in the 20th century. They have lost much of their power, and […]

A foundation for something more engaging

Troy by Stephen Fry

July 6, 2021 by Merryn 4 Comments

Bingo: Mythic The story of the fall of Troy is baked into Western culture. As I read this book I was reminded of so many other cultural artefacts built on the same foundation. In my head I could hear Sinead O’Connor wailing “there is no other Troy for you to burn”. I remembered reading The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri Tepper in my teens, where the women of this future dystopia ritually perform Iphigenia at Ilium each year, a reminder of the price that men’s […]

Inferno – Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (1975)

Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell

July 2, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR13Bingo – Mythic Like Dante’s Inferno, this book is more of a time capsule than a truly interesting reading experience. Unless I completely missed it, and I might have, it’s not as thickly layered with criticism and allusion to much more obscure and more “minor” sinners the way Dante’s is, and instead tries to hit the big bads. Instead of Virgil, his guide is Mussolini, hinting at the more fallen nature of classicism in the 20th century. If Virgil was the cultural historian of Rome/Italy […]

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