Review: Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology

Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology by Cory O'Brien

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book is better known as the "angry mythology book" among my friends, since, well, it is about mythology and it comes off as kinda angry. Although angry is of course not the correct word: it's aggresssive and intense, the way internet speech usually is.

And it IS written in internet speech: the book is very narrow, like physically, because there are so many paragraph breaks making it a wide book would have been a waste of paper. At first it bothered me, but then I realized you're supposed to read it like you are chatting with the author and he is telling you about all these cool myths he knows.

While it is funny, I think it would be even better to read the entire thing out loud. I have read some myths from the blog out loud with friends, and basically ended up in tears from laughing so hard. While I did definitely laugh a lot reading this, I wasn't crying from laughing, the way you do reading something out loud.

Anyway, great read for anyone interested in mythology. I especially liked the norse mythology part, but that isn't surprising given I am really into norse mythology. The USA chapter was pretty weird though, apart from the last part dealing with scientology. The other "myths" in that chapter didn't really seem like myths to me.

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P.S. Det här var en av mina julklappsböcker! Fick även The Silkworm, Jo Rowlings senaste, och Hunger Games-boxen. Får se om det blir en reread av Hunger Games nästa år, det var ändå rätt många år sedan jag läste dem nu. D.S.