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I first read Bernard Evslin’s Gods, Heroes, and Monsters of the Greek Myths when I was 12, and I’ve been a fan of Greek mythology ever since.
Mythos is the perfect complement to that book (Fry even says Evslin is one of his favorites!), and Stephen Fry manages to be droll, embracing high and low brows (never let it be said that Greek myths aren’t both part of the bedrock of literature and raunchy as hell), while never disregarding the truly heinous behavior of the gods and goddesses.
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Mythos is the perfect complement to that book (Fry even says Evslin is one of his favorites!), and Stephen Fry manages to be droll, embracing high and low brows (never let it be said that Greek myths aren’t both part of the bedrock of literature and raunchy as hell), while never disregarding the truly heinous behavior of the gods and goddesses.
I’m looking ...more
I'm giving up about 7% in. This reads like it's written for children, but it's also really boring and the subject matter is not for children. So I don't really know who this is written for. I guess it's for all the readers who have rated it so highly on goodreads. Just not for me.
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I think I want to learn all my Greek mythology from Stephen Fry. This is just him retelling all the myths with occasional commentary from him. Very entertaining and approachable for those intimidated by translations from ancient Greek.
It's good but much like myths themselves this book felt like it went on forever. Like I had injured the ego for some dirty and was being punished with self replenishing pages.
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