Mythos

I started reading this just as a distraction from the longer reads that I was feeling bored with. This book was perfectly acceptable as a distraction for the couple of weeks I needed to finish it without experiencing tedium. The pull quotes on the cover advertise brilliance, belovedness and hilarity, while I found some mild amusement and serviceability as a review of the greek myths. I think that 350 pages split into 28 bite-sized chapters with only a tiny bit of fussy vocabulary is the right size for a casual reader. As a college graduate, long time fantasy reader, only a couple of the stories were new to me, but its a nice survey of the stories that doesn’t gloss over the rude, naughty and/or gruesome behaviors of god, demi-gods, monsters and humans.