Mythology

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This post is for general discussion of mythology

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No one here! Let me be the first!
I'm starting Kaikeyi By Vaishnavi Patel
An Indian Mythology Book. ✨

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And now I'm DNFing this book. Will read it someday soon. Bye 🙂

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Madeline Miller has a new story published (Galatea), anyone has read it?

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I've started the audiobook for Norse Mythology, and my Thor, Neil Gaiman's voice is honey!

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Ohh wow!! Do share your thought!

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Haven't gone past the introduction of the main characters in the myths - Odin, Thor, and Loki -, which is like those lists of characters some books have at the beginning, but I really like Neil's descriptions! I also like how, in the foreword, he ||talked about Marvel being the reason why he fell in love with Norse mythology and wanted to learn more... only to discover how much Marvel changed the actual characters lol I had a similar experience, except that, for me, Marvel's version did the opposite. I believed Norse mythology was boring haha||

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Waah! that's sound so interesting and charming!! enjoy your book!

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I finished Gieman's Norse Mythology not too long ago and I thought it was quite fun! Definitely a good entrance into mythology. Does anyone know of any similar books?

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Jennifer Saint's Ariadne might be my new favorite book of all time. Genuinely so moved and intrigued by the implications of this story it is incredible

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i finished reading the song of achilles

somebody wants to talk abt it?

The ending crushed my heart

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sure

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join us in the broken hearted club

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Somebody wants to talk about Parzival? I rly enjoyed it!

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i already have this, and have read it, but want this edition, the cover is gorgeous: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/187668/the-greek-myths-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-by-graves-robert/9780143106715

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i really enjoyed that one!

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Any good Norse Mythology recs?

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i was looking into this a while back and the recommended places to start i was given were the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda; folks seem to have mixed opinions on Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology (i personally do not want to support him so it is not on my TBR)