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Bezig met laden... Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology (origineel 2013; editie 2013)door Cory O'Brien (Auteur), Sarah E. Melville (Illustrator)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is brilliantly funny, upfront about the liberties it takes - the spirit of storytelling and old myths - and focuses on myths from all around the world by turns, in delightfully irreverent fashion. ( ) This book is better known as the "angry mythology book" among my friends, since, well, it is about mythology and it comes off as kinda angry. Althought angry is of course no the correct word: aggresssive and intense, the way internet speech usually is. And it IS written in internet speech: the book is very narrow, like physically, because there are so many paragraph breaks making it a wide book would have been a waste of paper. At first it bothered me, but then I realized you're supposed to read it like you are chatting with the author and he is telling you about all these cool myths he knows. While it is funny, I think it would be even better to read the entire thing out loud. I have read some myths from the blog out loud with friends, and basically ended up in tears from laughing so hard. While I did definitely laugh a lot reading this, I wasn't crying from laughing, the way you do reading something out loud. Anyway, great read for anyone interested in mythology. I especially liked the norse mythology part, but that isn't surprising given I am really into norse mythology. The USA chapter was pretty weird though, apart from the last part dealing with scientology. The other "myths" in that chapter didn't really seem like myths to me. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
This book casts a gimlet eye on the real world of mythology. And in his irreverent style, O'Brien recounts more than 100 classic myths from Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Japanese, and other cultures. While each version is authentic in terms of facts, this creative take on the originals presents the stories in a whole new light. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)201.30207Religions Religion Religious mythology, general classes of religion, interreligious relations and attitudes, social theology Mythology and mythological foundations Mythology and mythological foundations - standard subdivisionsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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