Canongate Myths (9 books in series)
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review 1: Having only read Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' I wasn't sure what to expect in a book about Jesus. I knew that he didn't like like the church, which doesn't bother me as I'm not a fan of that corrupt organization either. This is an entertaining, thought provoking tale. In which ...
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review 1: I am aware that over the years I have become more and more of an intellectual lightweight. I read Moby Dick when I was ten, and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and The Grapes of Wrath and the like when I was in my teens, so I started off well, but maybe now I just don't have...
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review 1: The concept here is pretty good. The book tells us that Jesus had a twin brother named Christ who witnessed his brother's teachings and miracles and help record them in a way that would make them ring through history. In this telling, Jesus would have just been another forgotten ...
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review 1: An interesting retelling of the Japanese creation myth with a focus on Izanami as the death goddess. Certainly more engaging than the Kojiki itself, and it is interesting to see how the substories Kirino puts into the story tie in to everything. However, it is hard to review this...
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review 1: The Croatian author writes a novel about four old woman and then appends a letter to the editor from a Dr. Aba Bagay purporting to be a kind of critique of the novel as it relates to the Baba Yaga myth. The novel itself is worth reading, especially by those of us who are "women...
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review 1: I am not really sure what to class this book. Some people shelved it as fantasy and I couldn't quite admit to that. I think it was very well written and very well thought out. I loved the last half of the book with the more exploitative section on folklore and legend surrounding ...
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review 1: The Norse tales have always seemed to me the most powerful of the old mythologies that have come down to us in anything approaching a coherent body of work. Unlike the Graeco-Roman corpus, we have not been overexposed to them through Hollywood and cliche (with the exception of Th...
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review 1: The set-up for the main plot is slow, at times boring and too repetitive. The action, once we get to, can also be repetitive -- I kept thinking: please give the reader some credit -- though I'm willing to speculate that perhaps some of the fault is with the translation. The bland...
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review 1: This was my third book in the "World Cup of Literature," hailing from Croatia. So far, this has been my favorite selection. I liked this 3-part book. The first section, told from the point of view of a writer about her aging mother was quirky and interesting. The second section...