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Odyssey: The Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle of Echo Company to Survive the Vietnam War

Doug Stanton

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A powerful work of literary military history from the New York Times bestselling author of In...

Musical Maryland: A History of Song and Performance from the Colonial Period to the Age of Radio

David K. Hildebrand and Elizabeth M. Schaaf

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In Musical Maryland, the first comprehensive survey of the music emanating from the Old Line State,...

Rachel Maria Berney (114 KP) rated Norse Mythology in Books

Dec 4, 2018

Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

8.4

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Gives you an overview of Norse mythology (0 more)

It is a little boring, a struggle to read (0 more)

A little informative and interesting

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I love Neil Gaiman. I was so excited to read this book as I really enjoyed American Gods and jabe a love of Viking history. Right before reading this I read Stephen Fry's Mythology, unlucky for Neil and me. I can't help but compare the two and Gaiman's Norse Mythology comes up short. Whilst we do have access to more information of Greek myth than Norse myth, I don't think that's the entire reason that Norse Mythology is a hard read. The telling of the Norse stories doesn't have the flow I have come to expect from Gaiman, there is a strangled growth to it that makes for a choppy reading that is just hard work and not that enjoyable. Gaiman's style and what I enjoy about him is too constrained in this retelling of Norse myths, this may be due to a lack of evidence of Norse myth and history. I think it would have worked well online, as blog posts etc. As a book it is something easily put down, forgotten about and never finished.