Gods Behaving Badly, (Paperback)

from TheDivineOomba

I liked it. The Gods are at the end of their powers. They are living in world where they can't even get a job - Zeus is a somewhat powerful dementia ridden old man, Aphrodite is a backstabbing phone sex operator, we have Artemis, who has all sorts of theories about this, but isn't capable of comm...

from dudara

Remember the Greek gods? Zeus, Hera, Athena, Artmis, Persephone, Apollo and Hermes, to name but a few. Their legendary acts are just that, the stuff of legend. But imagine how this rather unique, incestuous family would manage in modern times. Dsyfunctional doesn't quite fit the bill. These gods ...

from melydia

The Greek gods are alive and well and living in a crumbling London house. And they still get a kick out of messing with mortals, namely the awkward and timid would-be couple Alice and Neil. I laughed quite a bit at this one, but I will say that it's much funnier to people familiar with Greek myth...

from irishwasherwoman

This book was recommended by Richard Russo at a talk he gave a couple of years ago. At first it wasn't available here in the states (he had read it on a trip back from Europe) but it was worth the wait. What a wonderfully imaginative book, even though it took me a long time to read it (it kept ge...

from dtw42

Great fun; an easy-to-read prose style which means that if you want to, you can dash through it pretty quickly. The characters of the gods and goddesses are well fleshed out. There are some really funny sequences, and also (unless it's just me getting old and sentimental, ahem) some unexpectedly ...