Björn recenserade Mythos av Stephen Fry
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3 stjärnor
Mixed bag. Fry's tone is... Fry. He's funny, he's just snobbishly ironic enough for it to land when there's a character (Prometheus, usually) he really does care about, he's well-read but not sycophantic, he can spin a yarn.
But when 90% of the yarns start to sound very similar - and Fry acknowledges it - it gets old. "A [person] was unfathomably beautiful, and then Zeus got horny." So much of the power in myth is how they're told, not just the summary of them. Mythos becomes a useful one-volume summary of the whole mess, there's a bunch of laughs (or at least grins), but in the end I end up skimming a few too many bits for the highlights.
Mixed bag. Fry's tone is... Fry. He's funny, he's just snobbishly ironic enough for it to land when there's a character (Prometheus, usually) he really does care about, he's well-read but not sycophantic, he can spin a yarn.
But when 90% of the yarns start to sound very similar - and Fry acknowledges it - it gets old. "A [person] was unfathomably beautiful, and then Zeus got horny." So much of the power in myth is how they're told, not just the summary of them. Mythos becomes a useful one-volume summary of the whole mess, there's a bunch of laughs (or at least grins), but in the end I end up skimming a few too many bits for the highlights.