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Xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths (2013)

by Kate Bernheimer(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0143122428 (ISBN13: 9780143122425)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Penguin Books

review 1: I labored through this anthology. There were stories that I absolutely loved (Emma & Peter Straub’s story was absolutely one of those), but fifty myths is a lot in one serving. And by the end of my reading experience, I found myself cursing the small font and thin pages for tricking me into reading something that was much much longer and denser and uneven than it first appeared. There are definitely stories in here that I’d revisit and reread and re-love, but they didn’t outweigh the more cumbersome retellings.
review 2: While some of the stories in this anthology were amusing, none of them really stuck out in my mind, and some of them seemed to jump through tortured hoops to try to even vaguely connect to the source fables that they were supposedly inspi... morered by. There were a few stinkers, with banal prose and ham-fisted metaphors, although the array of myths represented was somewhat diverse. The few bad stories dragged the mildly interesting ones down and the whole book became a slog for me to read through. Anthologies can be pretty hit or miss, and sometimes a few stories can be good enough to make the whole book worth it, but for me, this was definitely a miss. less

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