Name: Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes
ISBN: 9780399160400

Cory O'Brien

A humorous look at different mythologies emphasizing the cruder aspects of their stories, including drunken dance parties, sex with dwarves, and distended racoon testicles.

A No-bullshit Guide to World Mythology

Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes

Alex

Very funny and nice way to learn the basics about a lot of mythology, would read again

Fiona Coffey

This book is like Drunk History in book form, except mythology instead of history! It’s pretty wack, but so are the myths. It was a heck of a lot less boring to read than some mythology books and I can’t say I’m going to forget it anytime soon. 

I appreciate that it included myths from many pantheons, not just Greek and Roman. If you like mythology you’ll probably like this book. Yeah it’s got crude humor but many of these myths are crude to begin with if you take the time to look at them 👀

Julie Betler

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Ley Stanton

Alexander Lobov

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Get this: Cronus liked to eat babies. Narcissus probably should have just learned to masturbate. Odin got construction discounts with bestiality. Isis had bad taste in jewelry. Ganesh was the very definition of an unplanned pregnancy. And Abraham was totally cool about stabbing his kid in the face. All our lives, we’ve been fed watered-down, PC versions of the classic myths. In reality, mythology is more screwed up than a schizophrenic shaman doing hits of unidentified…wait, it all makes sense now. In Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, Cory O’Brien, creator of Myths RETOLD!, sets the stories straight. These are rude, crude, totally sacred texts told the way they were meant to be told: loudly, and with lots of four-letter words. Skeptical? Here are a few more gems to consider: • Zeus once stuffed an unborn fetus inside his thigh to save its life after he exploded its mother by being too good in bed. • The entire Egyptian universe was saved because Sekhmet just got too hammered to keep murdering everyone. • The Hindu universe is run by a married couple who only stop murdering in order to throw sweet dance parties…on the corpses of their enemies. • The Norse goddess Freyja once consented to a four-dwarf gangbang in exchange for one shiny necklace. And there’s more dysfunctional goodness where that came from.

Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes A No-bullshit Guide to World Mythology

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