A review by chelse34
Metamorphoses by Ovid

2.0

I remember buying this book in college as a "text book" for my Greek and Roman mythology class. Little did I know my husband had this book on his shelf to read for fun. I'm sure if I had been dating him at the time I would have gotten an A in the class instead of a B+. 

Anyway, we only read sections of this book for class, so why did I decide to read the whole thing? Because I saw a book called "1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die" (or something to that effect) and this book was #2 right after Aesop's Fables. It took me like 10 years to finish this book because I read it so slowly. 

Anyway, lots of Greek myths about mortals and Gods. And it seems like there was always incest, rape, or some form of curse put on someone throughout the whole thing. Not my ideal of a fun read, but it is a classic! My biggest beef was that the chapters were so long and each story merged into another one without a good segway or introduction, so that was confusing and hard to keep track of. 

Let's just say I'm not going to continue with book #3, and I'll pick my own books that I want to read before I die. 🤪