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Too Many Books

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Nathan

I seem to be finishing a lot of books as of late, which means this post is going to be pretty long, even if the individual reviews aren’t. Bear with me, I guess. The Way Home, by Peter S. Beagle … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Art, Authors, barsoom, Book Reviews, Brentford Trilogy, Comics, Crusades, edgar rice burroughs, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Mario, Middle East, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Percy Jackson, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Robert Rankin, Roman, Video Games | Tagged a fate worse than dragons, abraham, adam and eve, alexander the great, amazons, animal crossing new horizons, babylon, barry the time sprout, bible, blathers, boos, caleb cook, camp jupiter, cats, daniel, dejah thoris, demons, deserted island diary, dionysus, django wexler, dogs, dragons, esther, fairies, frogs, genesis, geoffrey de bouillon, gertrude landa, ghosts, giants, griffins, gulliver, how to become the dark lord and die trying, idols, jerusalem, jewish fairy tales and legends, john carter, john moore, king alexander's adventures, king david, king for three days, king hiram of tyre, kokonasu rumba, laverna, manga, mark oshiro, mars, minotaur, moses, nico di angelo, nimrod, noah, noah's ark, normanghast, og of bashan, orcs, paradise, peter s. beagle, phobos, pirithous, queen mary tudor, rape, rashi, sambation river, schmendrick, semele, sinbad of the talmud, sinbad the sailor, sol aronson, sooz, super mario adventures, swords of mars, talmud, tantalus, the court of the dead, the fairy frog, the giant of the flood, the higgedly-piggedly palace, the last unicorn, the paradise in the sea, the princess bride, the quarrel of the cat and dog, the sleep of one hundred years, the star-child, the story of bostanai, the water-babe, the way home, theseus, time loops, timmy and tommy nookling, tom nook, two hearts, underworld, will solace, wisp, ziz | 1 Comment

I’m Mad About Space Junk

Posted on May 29, 2025 by Nathan

Space Quest V: Roger Wilco – The Next Mutation – This is the first game in the series to have only one Guy from Andromeda work on it. While probably not as cleverly constructed as the previous game, I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Authors, Fairy Tales, Games, Greek Mythology, Humor, infocom, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Pac-Man, Playing Cards, Relationships, Sierra, Star Trek, Technology, Video Games | Tagged abdul alhazred, alice in wonderland, alien, arabian nights, battleship, beatrice wankmeister, beauty and the beast, beyond zork, bookworm, caterpillar, cliffy, double fanucci, druids, encyclopedia frobozzica, facehugger, green isles, h.p. lovecraft, heir today gone tomorrow, jinn, king graham, king's quest, king's quest collection, king's quest iii, king's quest v, king's quest vi, latex babes of estros, lord dimwit flathead, megaboz, minotaur, mordack, mutation, necronomicon, prince alexander, princess cassima, pukoids, raemes t. quirk, robby benson, roger wilco, space quest, space quest collection, space quest iv, space quest v, star confederation, the fly, the next mutation, the revenge of megaboz, townsend coleman, united federation of planets, wizards, xenomorphs, zhondra wysiwyg, zork, zork zero | 4 Comments

The Lady’s in Hades

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Nathan

I’ve written a bit about Battle of Olympus before. My family rented it a few times in my childhood but could never get too far in it, maybe as far as the first Cyclops. In terms of gameplay, it was … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Castlevania, Comics, Dragon Quest, Egyptian, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Kid Icarus, Magic, Maps, Medicine, Metroid, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged achilles, angel land, anubis, atari, battle of olympus, bears, broderbund, castlevania ii: simon's quest, cerberus, chocobos, clash of the titans, cyclopes, dragon quest vi, dragons, eurydice, hades, helen of troy, hydra, isis, kid icarus uprising, lamia, medusa, minotaur, monkeys, mount olympus, ocarina, orpheus, pegasus, persephone, ray harryhausen, riddle of the sphinx, satyrs, snakes, talos, underworld | Leave a comment

Lady of the Labyrinth

Posted on May 7, 2023 by Nathan

Seems like I’ve mostly just been writing book reviews on here recently. I have another one pretty much ready to go, minus pictures and links, but I wanted to break it up a bit. So here’s something mythology-related I’ve been … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Families, Feminism, Greek Mythology, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Roman | Tagged achilles, aeetes, aphrodite, ares, argonauts, ariadne, artemis, circe, crete, dionysus, dioscuri, europa, gorgons, harmonia, helen of troy, helios, hephaestus, heracles, hercules, iphicles, karl kerenyi, king minos of crete, labyrinth, medea, minotaur, oceanus, oenopion, orphic mysteries, perse, persephone, perseus, phanos, proserpina, rhadmanthus, robert graves, semele, staphylos, tethys, theseus, titans, zeus | 1 Comment

These Judges Are Such Cretans

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Nathan

When the world of the dead is presented as a place of reward or punishment, as has become pretty standard, that generally means that someone has to decide who goes where. The Underworld of Greek mythology came to have three … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Greek Mythology, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Roman, Video Games | Tagged achilles, aegina, aeneid, alcmene, androgeos, ants, apollo, apollodorus, arabian nights, aristophanes, bulls, cadmus, cerberus, cyclopes, daedalus, dante alighieri, divine comedy, eleusinian mysteries, elysian fields, europa, fortunate isles, hades, helios, hell, hera, hercules, inferno, king aeacus of aegina, king aeetes of colchis, king asterion of crete, king minos of crete, kronos, law, minotaur, myrmidons, nymphs, odysseus, odyssey, pasiphae, patroclus, peleus, plato, polyphemus, poseidon, rhadamanthus, sarpedon, sinbad the sailor, the frogs, theseus, triptolemus, trojan war, underworld, virgil, zeus, zork | 1 Comment

The More Real Than Real World Beyond the Real

Posted on May 12, 2021 by Nathan

Across the Green Grass Fields, by Seanan McGuire – Another book in the Wayward Children series, this one has a girl named Regan visit the Hooflands, a world of mythical hooved creatures, but before that deals with the treacherous nature … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Celtic, Comics, Dreams, Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Mythology, Relationships, seanan mcguire, Sexuality, Wayward Children | Tagged a cockeyed menagerie, across the green grass fields, andre breton, centaurs, fauns, holy grail, julien levy, kelpies, king arthur, marcel duchamp, max ernst, merlin, minotaur, nimue, once and future, paul eluard, perytons, rene magritte, salvador dali, sir lancelot du lac, surrealism, sword in the stars, t.s. sullivant, unicorns, walt kelly | 1 Comment

Monster Masters

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Nathan

I might as well review the books related to the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series that I received for my birthday, since I’ve finished reading them. Dragon Quest Illustrations, by Akira Toriyama – This collects some of Toriyama’s drawings … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged akira toriyama, chocobos, demons, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest illustrations, dragon quest iv, dragon quest monsters, dragon quest v, dragon quest vi, dragonlord, dragons, final fantasy lost stranger, final fantasy ultimania archive, grandmaster nimzo, greattree, hazuki minase, imps, itsuki kameya, king satan, kleo, manga, milly, mine yoshizaki, minotaur, moogles, murdaw, shogo sasaki, slib, slimes, square enix, terry, watabou, xenlon, yoshitaka amano, yuko sasaki, zoma | 1 Comment

Men Are Pigs

Posted on October 13, 2018 by Nathan

Circe, by Madeline Miller – When I heard about this book, I knew I should probably read it, but it took me a while to get a digital copy from the library. It’s a reinterpretation of the story of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Feminism, Greek Mythology, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships | Tagged aiaia, circe, daedalus, glaucos, gregory maguire, helios, hermes, madeline miller, minotaur, nymphs, odysseus, odyssey, pasiphae, penelope, perse, prometheus, telegonus, telegony, telemachus, wicked, witches | 2 Comments

All Gods Are Bastards

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Nathan

Here are some thoughts on a few books I’ve read recently. I’ve been patronizing the library quite a bit as of late, and their eBook system is pretty convenient. The thing I’m not keen on when it comes to their … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Christopher Moore, Comics, Mythology | Tagged a. lee martinez, esad riblic, helen and troy's epic road quest, island of the sequined love nun, jason aaron, margaret cavendish, marvel comics, minotaur, orcs, perun, the blazing world, the god butcher, the stupidest angel, thor | 1 Comment

Mythical Monsters in the Modern Age

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Nathan

Knees Up Mother Earth, by Robert Rankin – This book returns to Brentford, the London suburb where Rankin grew up, which in his fiction is frequently home to mystical happenings. A local consortium is trying to purchase their football ground, … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Brentford Trilogy, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Robert Rankin | Tagged david gelber, garden of eden, Jack the Ripper, jim pooley, john omally, knees up mother earth, minotaur, minotaur revisited, norman hartnell, Pablo Picasso, professor slocombe, the witches of chiswick, william starling | 2 Comments

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