This is what happens when you fall in love with a couple of books written by an author and decided to read them all. After the soul-shaking narratives of Sita and Jaya, one might get the idea that it would be so cool to read about something completely new from this author who is good at narrating mythologies. And Greek myths, they are very intriguing, or so I felt before picking up this book.
This book more or less felt like a scrapbook of sorts, or to be more precise, the introductory part of a script for a greek play, where each chapter is named after a name and there is no flow onto the next one. Simply description of characters. Reminded me a lot of the memoirs we made in college writing about each other. The narrative lacks creativity and more importantly a framework of sorts to keep you engaged.
Perhaps it may be so that we have been raised in the shadows of Ramayana and Mahabharata and we tend to connect to the analysis more easily. Perhaps. But the excitement and adrenaline to indulge with these greek myths do not last long. It is disappointing, I am sure, Zeus would have agreed on that too.
This book more or less felt like a scrapbook of sorts, or to be more precise, the introductory part of a script for a greek play, where each chapter is named after a name and there is no flow onto the next one. Simply description of characters. Reminded me a lot of the memoirs we made in college writing about each other. The narrative lacks creativity and more importantly a framework of sorts to keep you engaged.
Perhaps it may be so that we have been raised in the shadows of Ramayana and Mahabharata and we tend to connect to the analysis more easily. Perhaps. But the excitement and adrenaline to indulge with these greek myths do not last long. It is disappointing, I am sure, Zeus would have agreed on that too.
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Whole Hellenic Republic is agree with you , Sir....
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