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Read Series: Canongate Myths

by Author A.S. Byatt

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Ragnarök: The End of the Gods (2011)

This is retelling of some of the Nordic myths and what they meant to the author as a little girl reading them with WWII as a backdrop. It causes you to reflect on myth, what they are and how they can be important. A.S. Byatt is a fantastic writer so the word choice and sentence construction is w...

Ragnarök: The End of the Gods (2011) by A.S. Byatt
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2000)

Despite the title, this is really not a book which will have people lighting up bonfires and raising pitchforks in a frenzied babble. In fact, it is a well-constructed retelling of the story of Jesus of Nazareth, touching upon weighty themes such as how institutional religion is not always faith,...

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2000) by Philip Pullman
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The Good Man Jesus & the Scoundrel Christ (2011)

This was good, but I didn't like it as much as I wanted to. I thought that Christ was a fairly one-dimensional character. The idea of using organized religion as a form of control was presented in much the same as many others have done so. The plot was more derivative than I had hoped it would be...

The Good Man Jesus & the Scoundrel Christ (2011) by Philip Pullman