Well, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. It was repetitive, often felt flimsy, and filled with interruptive footnotes that are mostly just lame jokes by the author. You get a good idea of where humans came up with the construction of chimeras, for instance, but there are few actual example...
While giant animals, like the Nemean lion and Calydonian boar, were celestially created to plague humanity, Kong, in every version of King Kong, is always brought to civilized lands by people who just don’t care about the needs of the giant ape. Similarly, Chimera was a divinely spawned horror, b...