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Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.
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Station Zero
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220/282 pages
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
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749/997 pages
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
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8/160 pages
The Heptameron (Penguin Classics)
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152/544 pages
The Poems and Plays of John Masefield
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78/534 pages
Poems Selected
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4/50 pages
Selected Poems
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18/160 pages
The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2
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133/789 pages
Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
I have no comparison to make with any other re-telling or the source material, so, taking this at face-value:
This is an entertaining set of tales about the creation of the world and its eventual destruction and some things that happen in between. The best of the tales are the comedic ones where Loki is both the author of and the solution for some troublesome eventuality. It was good to finally read some of these Norse myths and it makes me keener to read the source material, the prose and poetic Eddas.
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