[ SECRET POST #2360 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2360 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's interesting to me that you suggest the reader needs some knowledge of Greek/Roman myths, when part of the reason that I personally enjoyed American Gods due to my knowledge of Norse myth (hello: Odin and Loki? Vision quest on a tree?). Perhaps it's an interest in mythology and general that lends appeal. Also, having known many pagans who fawn over this book, I think being polytheistic might also help.

All of that said, I completely agree with about Dan Simmons. Apart from Hyperion, dude's writing drives me up the fucking wall for precisely the reasons you've laid out.

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ayrt

Yeah that's my bad it's been almost exactly ten years since I read the book and I was blanking on the exact gods/pantheon(s) used....though I do remember the Egyptians pretty clearly, for some odd reason. (My brain, it is starting to fail me in strange ways. I am not amused.) I should have emphasized having a knowledge of the general structure of mythologies as a whole in my comment a little more than I did, maybe?

Ugh, Dan Simmons. Everyone I knew was praising Hyperion like he was the best writer to ever string a coherent sentence together, so I sat down and slogged all the way through it. I still resent that book for wasting far too many good hours of my life that I am never ever going to get back.

It was okay, but not as OMG!GREAT as everyone was making it out to be. Especially the way Simmons bashes you over the head with his "THIS IS MY ENG LIT PHD AND YOU'RE GOING TO SUFFER FOR IT AS MUCH AS I DID DEAR READER." :-P I'm thankful I never wasted my time on Fall of Hyperion and Ilium after that.