Anyone got this? It's #1 on Amazon currently, and I've

>>9083410
Read the eddas not this shit

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>>9083426
this and then the Sagas everything else is just a meme

I assume it's a Gaiman-y, Norse-flavored version of Edith Hamilton's Mythology?

>reading a hack version instead of Crossley-Holland
Why?

>>9083410
i've got a signed copy
i haven't read it yet
sorry

>>9083434
That shit is too expensive. Cant find a paperback version.

>>9084229
luckily these are 800 years old and therefore don't have any copyright
you can find them all for free here: http://sagadb.org/ most of them in English

>>9084253
But I want it on my shelf to look cool.

>>9084266
I didn't say that.

>>9084288
This isn't me.

>>9084266
Time to hang yourself

>>9084294
>reading from a screen
>owning a mem-e-book reader
no u

>>9083410

>Roberto Calasso will never do for Norse mythology what he did for Greek and Indian myths

Why live?

>>9083410
Just learn Old Norse and read the Eddas

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>>9083410
.epub and other formats easily found on the interwebz--go git ursef a copy boy.

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Does anyone know if pic related is any good?

>>9085254

I read it and enjoyed it a great deal. It's an anthology, but it doesn't contain all the sagas.

>>9085254
can't vouch for the translation but as I recall it has some strange inclusions and exclusions
there was at least one of the most famous sags it didn't include and a few of the whatever sagas that are included for seemingly no reason

it's probably a decent enough starting point though including both Njáls Saga and Egils Saga which are the two longest and best ones

HENRY ADAMS BELLOWS

Neil Gaima is a FAGGOT

>>9083410
>Neil Gayman
Make sure you get ready player one too

>>9085493
that's written by ernest cline though. whats wrong with neil gaiman? i havent read any of his work, genuinely wondering.

>>9085531
Coraline is an impeccable "todorovian" fantasy novel
Nevertheless he is one of the authors limited by audience and current market

>>9085577
What means todorovian?

>>9085531
I haven't read any of his books but he's one of those nerd losers who nerds like. Those people who can't interpret subtlety and require everything draped in a vaneer of epicness but totally lacking in any substance. Maybe Gaiman's not like that, I dunno. But thems the folks what read him.

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>>9085591
>i havent read any of his books but...

>>9085591
Tzvetan Todorov divided fantastique into 3 categories:
- weird (étrange) - the ending can be explained scientifically (ritchie's sherlock Holmes)
- merveilleux (marvelous) -it is normal to us that paranormal things occur (harri potta )
- fantastique - ending nad whole paranormality cannot be explained. It can be real, a dream, hallucination etc