Emer (A Little Haze)'s Reviews > Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
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bookshelves: hellas, reviewed, 1star, read2019, trees-died-for-this-crap, ancient-civilisations-mythology, adult-fiction
Jan 18, 2019
bookshelves: hellas, reviewed, 1star, read2019, trees-died-for-this-crap, ancient-civilisations-mythology, adult-fiction
Finished it! Still hated it. I just couldn't bear the structure nor style of prose that Fry chose to use. I'm much more partial to a classical style or a beautiful lyrical style when it comes to relating Greek myths. This had neither. And since I've read extensively about Greek mythology over the years this just didn't add anything new to the subject for me.
HELLO FIRST ONE STAR OF THE YEAR.
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Nah. Not gonna DNF this one. The desire to read it in totality and then get to trash it and rate it lowly is gonna spur me on. FRY YOU WILL NOT DEFEAT ME.... Yes I'm a ridiculous human....
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First DNF of the year.
Can't tolerate the choices Fry is making with his narration. Rather an omniscient style that comes off as smug and almost patronising but also utterly obvious in the insipid jokes and redundant commentary. And then to add insult to injury he intersperses the book with the most puerile dialogue between the characters.
I love the Greek myths. I've read so many varying retellings over the years that I've thoroughly enjoyed and kept in my heart.
But this sorry mess???
Ugh no.
Can't even be bothered to stick with this even for the joy of one star rant.
HELLO FIRST ONE STAR OF THE YEAR.
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Nah. Not gonna DNF this one. The desire to read it in totality and then get to trash it and rate it lowly is gonna spur me on. FRY YOU WILL NOT DEFEAT ME.... Yes I'm a ridiculous human....
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First DNF of the year.
Can't tolerate the choices Fry is making with his narration. Rather an omniscient style that comes off as smug and almost patronising but also utterly obvious in the insipid jokes and redundant commentary. And then to add insult to injury he intersperses the book with the most puerile dialogue between the characters.
I love the Greek myths. I've read so many varying retellings over the years that I've thoroughly enjoyed and kept in my heart.
But this sorry mess???
Ugh no.
Can't even be bothered to stick with this even for the joy of one star rant.
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Jan 18, 2019 05:53PM
Smug, patronising, insipid and redundant are really all the only words you can use to describe Stephen Fry as a person. He stopped mentally developing at 15 and still thinks he's the world's most advanced man.
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Oh the savagery 😂😂 I love it Allie. I find myself rather unable to disagree with you. I've certainly always found him to be quite unbearable except possibly back in the days of Fry and Laurie especially when they performed as Jeeves and Wooster but that could be my undying love for Hugh....
