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Corfel  Posts: 510
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Posted this on daoc forums but figured I would get a more focused response here
Basically is there any in partciular I should look out for?
I'm not much of a reading person so I know nothing about authors etc but I'm on vacation as of Wednesday and would like something to read on my flight 
I don't know alot about norse/greek mythology but it strikes me as something I'd be interested in reading
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polemistis  Title: GW Vault SM
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ckgreed  Posts: 99
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I think American Gods by Neil Gaiman might fit the description, if you're into modern fantasy.
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Walker_ID Posts: 673
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tolkien stole a lot of the lord of the rings lore from norse mythology
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Daimar Title: Moderator
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Mickey Zucker Reichert has done several series of norse fiction, not historically accurate by any means, but more fantasy involging norse gods as supporting characters. The one trilogy I read started with the Last of the Renshai and there's another connected trilogy after that I believe.
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Caoilin Title: Instigator
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ckgreed posted:
I think American Gods by Neil Gaiman might fit the description, if you're into modern fantasy.
because american gods is totally about the norse and greek gods. 
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ckgreed Posts: 99
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Caoilin posted:
ckgreed posted:
I think American Gods by Neil Gaiman might fit the description, if you're into modern fantasy.
because american gods is totally about the norse and greek gods.
website posted:
Q: Many of your readers are familiar with Greek and Roman gods but ignorant of Norse gods. Was it your hope that American Gods might encourage a renewed interest in Norse mythology?
A: Not really. It was more that we are so familiar with the Greco-Roman gods, and it was harder to come up with ways that they could have come to the United States (although as I finished the book several fringe archaeological discoveries gave me ways I could have done it); and that the Norse myths are so bleak, and always end in Ragnarok . . .
http://www.harpercollins.com/author/microsite/readingguide.aspx?authorID=3417&isbn13=9780380973651&displayType=bookinterview
because books that have nothing to do with norse mythology prompt such questions to the author right?
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I just finished reading Ovid's Metamorphoses for a class. It's Roman mythology, but as you know, Roman and Greek myths are fairly interchangeable.
There are some good reads in it. I'll probably actually try reading it for enjoyment once this damn reading intensive class is over.
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poenadare Posts: 381
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I've gotten some good reads on all things Norse by reading collections of Norse and Danish fairy-tales. They have a very unique flavor.
300 is a good read, still.
Can't say I've seen much Greek fiction. Most fantasy writers glom onto Rome.
Ah! But try this - I was dense as hell but highly entertaining:
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Ilium/Olympos is a science fiction duology by Dan Simmons. These events are set in motion by beings who have taken on the roles of the Greek gods. Like Simmons' earlier series, the Hyperion Cantos, it is a form of "literary science fiction" which relies heavily on intertextuality, in this case with Homer and Shakespeare, as well as periodic references to Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (or In Search of Lost Time) and Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.
As with most of his science fiction and in particular with one of his previous novels, the Hugo award-winning Hyperion, Ilium demonstrates that Simmons writes in the tradition of soft science fiction like Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. Le Guin. Ilium is based on a literary approach similar to most of Bradbury's work, but describes larger segments of society and broad historical events. As in Le Guin's Hainish series, Simmons places the action of Ilium in a vast and complex universe made of relatively plausible technological and scientific elements. Yet Ilium is different from any of the works of Bradbury and Le Guin in its exploration of the very far future of humanity, and in the extra human or post-humans themes associated with this. It is among several recent works that look specifically at the notion of a technological singularity where technological change starts to occur beyond the ability of humanity to presently predict or comprehend. The first book in the series, Ilium, received the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction novel in 2004.[1]
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