One night while shopping for books online, despite never having heard of Better Myths before, I bought Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes on a whim, because it was on special.
When it arrived, and after I stopped giggling over it, I decided that it was one of the best somewhat tipsy shopping decisions I've ever made, and promptly bought several other copies for friends who'd also had a faintly classical education.
I've been sporadically reading Better Myths ever since. Yay, internet!
(Also, I once learned Jabberwocky by heart, which makes reading this version all the more entertaining.)
Similarly, while I absolutely detested learning poems by heart in Literature classes, I decided to learn Jabberwocky. Because it is both Culture and Nonsense, which is excellent. Apple will inscribe any random iOS device with two lines' worth of text at a time, and Jabberwocky is a very good source of inscriptions for at least the first few handfuls of devices.
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Date: 2014-06-09 09:27 pm (UTC)When it arrived, and after I stopped giggling over it, I decided that it was one of the best somewhat tipsy shopping decisions I've ever made, and promptly bought several other copies for friends who'd also had a faintly classical education.
I've been sporadically reading Better Myths ever since. Yay, internet!
(Also, I once learned Jabberwocky by heart, which makes reading this version all the more entertaining.)
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Date: 2014-06-10 01:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
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