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Includes the name: Cory O'Brien

Works by Cory O'Brien

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Monster Prom (2018) — Writer — 2 copies

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Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Places of residence
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Occupations
game designer

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Gross and explicit and so, so fun to read aloud with friends over a fire with beer and s'mores.
 
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hannerwell | 8 other reviews | Feb 24, 2024 |
I love O'Brien's voice. If you enjoyed Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, you'll like this one, too. O'Brien does an excellent job blending American history with the mythology some of us learned as fact.
 
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embly | Nov 4, 2023 |
This book is better known as the "angry mythology book" among my friends, since, well, it is about mythology and it comes off as kinda angry. Althought angry is of course no the correct word: aggresssive and intense, the way internet speech usually is.

And it IS written in internet speech: the book is very narrow, like physically, because there are so many paragraph breaks making it a wide book would have been a waste of paper. At first it bothered me, but then I realized you're supposed to read it like you are chatting with the author and he is telling you about all these cool myths he knows.

While it is funny, I think it would be even better to read the entire thing out loud. I have read some myths from the blog out loud with friends, and basically ended up in tears from laughing so hard. While I did definitely laugh a lot reading this, I wasn't crying from laughing, the way you do reading something out loud.

Anyway, great read for anyone interested in mythology. I especially liked the norse mythology part, but that isn't surprising given I am really into norse mythology. The USA chapter was pretty weird though, apart from the last part dealing with scientology. The other "myths" in that chapter didn't really seem like myths to me.
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upontheforemostship | 8 other reviews | Feb 22, 2023 |
Absolutely delightful reaf. I love mythology, i love this writing voice. I will definitely read more of O'Brien's writing.
 
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embly | 8 other reviews | Dec 11, 2021 |

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