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Sam Krupnik
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Okay, this is the first retelling that I think she flubbed. The fact Pandora was told, in the original myth, not to open the jar and opened it anyway exposed a deep truth about human curiosity. Making her completely unaware of the jar's existence and having her open it out of ignorance makes her a victim of the gods' cunning, but it also destroys the core message of the story.
— Jun 23, 2024 10:04AM
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Sam Krupnik
is on page 170 of 496
DNFing this one. It kills me to put down a mythology book that's this compulsively readable, but it's too disrespectful to the myths I know and love.
— Jun 26, 2024 10:49AM
Sam Krupnik
is on page 106 of 496
I'm really enjoying these retellings, but Johnston's hate boner for Zeus has already become tiresome. Making every single sexual encounter of his nonconsensual was a deliberate choice on her part, and probably not one the original audience for these myths would have agreed with.
— Jun 23, 2024 10:08AM
Sam Krupnik
is on page 24 of 496
Johnston's writing is extremely engaging. She's doing an excellent job of bringing out the humanity in these stories, and in the gods themselves. It's not easy to tell a good story while simultaneously explaining cultural context that might be unfamiliar to readers, but she's balancing the two quite well.
— Jun 23, 2024 10:00AM
Sam Krupnik
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I bought this book without hesitation because I loved [i]Restless Dead[/i] so much, and I wanted to see her bring her scholarly knowledge to these familiar (and some unfamiliar) myths. Let's see how it goes.
— Jun 23, 2024 09:58AM
