Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Apr 30, 2018 ☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: really-good, pleasure, memorabilia, best-ever, underrated, fiction, favorites, to-reread, menu-reading-is-served

This is good enough to eat! Loooooooooooooooooooove it! Gosh!!! I'll try to savour it for as long as possible!

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What misery can be so great that it causes you to go about half drowning honest ants? (c)
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‘You should ask yourself what brought you here,’ said Pan. ‘If it’s love, then you must pray to Aphrodite and Eros for guidance and relief. If your own wickedness caused your downfall then you must live to repent. If it was caused by others then you must live to revenge.’ (c)
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Jan 20, 2019 Veronika rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: male-author, non-fiction

Sehr unterhaltsam, informativ und lehrreich. Einige Sagen und Mythen kannte ich schon, aber der ganz große Überblick hat mir ein wenig gefehlt, wer wann wie was mit wem zusammen hängt. Die Lektüre ist so gemütlich erzählt, dass man sich ein wenig so fühlt als ob man mit Stephen Fry am Kamin sitzt und sich bei einer heißen Tasse Tee griechische Sagen erzählen lässt. Perfekte Lektüre für triste Wintertage.
Kann ich wirklich jedem empfehlen!

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Aug 10, 2021 Anne rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, read-in-2021

This is a book I devoured in small pieces. Which has nothing to do with how entertaining the book is or how well it is written, but with me. I prefer to read some stories , then go back to another book, and come back for a few more. This meant it took me months to finish. Which was great, like having a special box of chocolates of which you can have one occasionally. I knew a lot of the stories beforehand but loved reading the background of the sorties, modern comparisons and such. Highly recomm ...more

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Oct 29, 2019 Megan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 5-star-reads

This was wonderful.

Absolutely fascinating retelling of the Greek myths and I learned so much!

I listened to the audiobook version narrated by Stephen Fry himself and it was truly excellent.

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