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Mythology
by Edith Hamilton
This book took me months and month to read, mainly because it was such slow going, combined with small moments that were both trivial but also maddening, that I kept setting it aside. I feel sorry for any students who were forced to read this for school, as the back cover proclaims has happened.
The moments were fleeting, but they wove together as an attempt to inject some commentary into the stories. At best they were distracting, but often they either completely derailed the narrative or were just so insipid or pretentious sounding that I had to finish that particular myth and then set the book aside. I kept reading, though, firstly because I really don't like to leave books unfinished, and secondly because I found value in at least becoming more familiar with all the names in these stories.
The moments were fleeting, but they wove together as an attempt to inject some commentary into the stories. At best they were distracting, but often they either completely derailed the narrative or were just so insipid or pretentious sounding that I had to finish that particular myth and then set the book aside. I kept reading, though, firstly because I really don't like to leave books unfinished, and secondly because I found value in at least becoming more familiar with all the names in these stories.