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onehoureternity's review against another edition
5.0
Really funny! It brings goddesses you wouldn't have thought about down to a more human level. And the stories are told in modern language, she updates them and makes them seem more relevant. Definitely worth a read.
innae's review against another edition
3.0
An enjoyable collection of tales of the Goddess (with a few really strong women thrown in for good measure). I liked the tongue in cheek way the author re-told the stories, and I appreciated the condensed version of many of them (as so often goes with stories that were once passed by word of mouth, there is a lot of repeating)
I enjoyed hearing more about Inanna than I had previously heard. She is still a fascinating goddess. I also noticed more parallels with Christianity and the older stories than I had originally thought (the fact that all religions "borrow" from the others is not a secret -- and I knew our present religions have more in common with the former religions than they would like to admit. I just hadn't heard some of the stories that paralleled)
Anyway, overall an enjoyable and fun read.
I enjoyed hearing more about Inanna than I had previously heard. She is still a fascinating goddess. I also noticed more parallels with Christianity and the older stories than I had originally thought (the fact that all religions "borrow" from the others is not a secret -- and I knew our present religions have more in common with the former religions than they would like to admit. I just hadn't heard some of the stories that paralleled)
Anyway, overall an enjoyable and fun read.
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