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Toxic relationship.

Revisado: 07-31-24

Self absorbed MC with an abusive, narcissistic boyfriend. Not a healthy ever after. The rest of the series is as bad or worse.

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Maddeningly clueless, ineffectual characters.

Revisado: 07-31-24

Frustrating read. Characters miss obvious clues and connections. In a crisis, they dither and freeze.

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Well above average for the genre!

Revisado: 11-03-22

Raises the bar set by the first book in the series, which was also excellent.

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Excellent source of insight!

Revisado: 04-29-21

For me, this lecture series gave me a better understanding of how people, including myself, have predispositions that shape how we experience and interact with the world.

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This is excellent, anthropological sci-fi!

Revisado: 04-28-21

The narrator is excellent, giving each character a unique voice so that I always knew who was speaking.
The story explores proper sci-fi themes such as what it means to be human, the relationship between the individual and the society, the limits of thinking and perception. at the same time, the author develops an epic hero storyline very subtly, so that I wasn't really conscious of it until reflecting on it after I finished the book. And there was action and suspense that made the story hard to put down.
An enormously satisfying listen!

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First Hugo & Nebula winner I didn't like.

Revisado: 04-28-21

The narration was passable but the characters all had the same voice.
The story was generic, but in an original setting. The main character's behavior was oddly out of character during the climax of the story, making the events seem contrived. A lot in this book seemed contrived, like the author had no passion for the story or characters or message and nothing insightful to share. It felt like she was shoehorning in the elements that would get the book noticed. It got the awards, but it felt like that was the whole motivation for the book.

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Timeless Classic

Revisado: 03-08-19

An entertaining and educational listen. Sources for each of the stories presented are clearly discussed. The reader delivers the content well. The table of contents is not included in the accompanying pdf, so I'm adding it here for those interested. The full text is available at the Internet Archive, the source for the following TOC.

Contents


Foreword v

Introduction to Classical Mythology 13
The Mythology of the Greeks 14
The Greek and Roman Writers of
Mythology 21

PART ONE:

The Gods, the Creation, and the Earliest Heroes

1 The Gods 24

The Titans and the Twelve Great
Olympians 24

The Lesser Gods of Olympus 36
The Gods of the Waters 38
The Underworld 39
The Lesser Gods of E^rth 40
The Roman Gods 43

2 The Two Great Gods of Earth 47

Demeter (Ceres) 49
Dionysus or Bacchus 54

3 How the World and Mankind Were

Created 63

4 The Earliest Heroes 75

Prometheus and Io 75
Europa 78

The Cyclops Polyphemus 81
Flower-Myths: Narcissus, Hyacinth,

Adonis 85

PART TWO: Stories of Love and Adventure

5 Cupid and Psyche 92

Eight Brief Tales of Lovers 101
Pyramus and Thisbe 101



Orpheus and Eurydice 102
Ceyx and Alcyone 106
Pygmalion and Galatea 108
Baucis and Philemon 1J1
Endymion 113
Daphne 114

Alpheus and Arethusa 116

7 The Quest of the Golden Fleece 117

8 Four Great Adventures 131

Phaethon 131

Pegasus and Bellerophon 134
Otus and Ephialtes 137
Daedalus 139

PART THREE:

The Great Heroes before the Trojan War

9 Perseus 141

10 Theseus 149

11 Hercules 159

12 Atalanta 173

PART FOUR: The Heroes of the Trojan War

13 The Trojan War 178

Prologue: The Judgment of Paris 179
The Trojan War 179

14 The Fall of Troy 193

15 The Adventures of Odysseus 202

16 The Adventures of Aeneas 220

Part One: From Troy to Italy 220
Part Two: The Descent into the Lower
World 226

Part Three: The War in Italy 230

PART FIVE: The Great Families of Mythology

17 The House of Atreus 236

Tantalus and Niobe 23?.

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Practical and complete

Revisado: 01-18-19

This is an excellent tool for the practice necessary to learn yoga nidra. And once learned, this tool remains useful for continuing practice.

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Ignore complaints about the reader...

Revisado: 12-15-18

This is a richly in-depth set of scientific lectures on a complex subject. The professor's enthusiasm for and fascination with the subject are contagious! There is much factual information in each lecture, so less time is given to purely entertaining the listener. If you enjoy the thrill of discovery, and find good science entertaining in itself, you'll listen to this one more than once.

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