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Cory O'Brien

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Science Fiction, Mystery, Humor and Comedy

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Douglas Adams, Ursula K. LeGuin, William Gibson, T.H. White

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Cory O’Brien is the author of Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes and George Washington Is Cash Money. He has written for numerous award-winning video games, including Monster Prom and Holovista, and designed multiple tabletop games, including Inhuman Conditions and Hand to Hand Wombat. He lives in Chicago.

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	Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology by Cory O'Brien (Goodreads Author), Sarah E. Melville (Illustrator) 3.99 avg rating — 6,397 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	George Washington Is Cash Money: A No-Bullshit Guide to the United Myths of America by Cory O'Brien (Goodreads Author), Soren Melville (Illustrations) 4.21 avg rating — 565 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Truths and a Lie 3.76 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Descartes Meditations, Bro: A Retelling of Meditations on First Philosophy by Tommy Maranges, René Descartes, Philosophy Bro (Creator) 3.93 avg rating — 42 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Definitely not for everyone, but I think this book is fascinating. It's a dreamlike, anesthetized, body-horror carnival that feels like waking up from surgery still under anesthesia. The ending surprised and... "delighted" is the wrong word. But it w ...more
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Foundational cyberpunk. Language can be really dense, so I bounced off it the first time I tried reading it, but the second time around I let myself be immersed and I ended up loving the velocity of the prose. Definitely recommend.
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Foundational cyberpunk. Language can be really dense, so I bounced off it the first time I tried reading it, but the second time around I let myself be immersed and I ended up loving the velocity of the prose. Definitely recommend.
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“Dionysus the god of drinking so hard you wake up with TWO hangovers and then they FIGHT.”
― Cory O'Brien, Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology

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“No, see what I’m trying to say is that I watch people organizing themselves into these neat little conflicts: Atheists versus Christians Jews versus Muslims Fundamentalists versus basically everybody and I feel like a kid in a broken home who can’t get Mom and Dad to stop fighting. The assumption that every one of these groups is making— and I think it’s important to acknowledge that every group, from scientist to Sikh, assumes this—is that they are right. That they are somehow behaving rationally. But the fact that we can get so angry about this stuff means that it’s not rational and I think we could get a hell of a lot further by synthesizing these beliefs than by finding more and more nuanced ways to call each other dicks.”
― Cory O'Brien, Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology

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“That's all any of these myths have been trying to do. To take a huge, terrifying phenomenon, something you can only stare at and go "whoa", and turn it into something more our size. Something we can fit inside our puny brains. Something really cool, even: a story.”
― Cory O'Brien, Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology

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