Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes by Cory O'Brien

'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. His candor likens to a tirade of Liz Lemon's deranged ex-boyfriend, Dennis Duffy of 30 Rock, had his skull contained a well-read brain.' -Chicagoist 'O'Brien's writing is gruff, hilarious.but there's no doubt that he's thoroughly researched his topics. With chapter titles like “Cronus Likes To Eat Babies “, “Abraham Is Totally Cool About Stabbing His Kid in the Face,” and “Odin Gets Construction Discounts with Bestiality,” you can’t help but want to read these retold myths, whether it be from morbid curiosity or a dire need to know what this guy could possibly be getting at with these titles.' 'I was giggling by the first page and full blown LOLing by the first myth. 'Blessed with the drinking tolerance of Bacchus and the wisdom of Minerva, O’Brien has compiled some of the best of the best in the realm of sarcastic myth telling with his book Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No Bull-Shit Guide to World Mythology.' 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. The Norse goddess Freyja once consented to a four-dwarf gangbang in exchange for one shiny necklace.Īnd there’s more dysfunctional goodness where that came from.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 entire Egyptian universe was saved because Sekhmet just got too hammered to keep murdering everyone.

Zeus once stuffed an unborn fetus inside his thigh to save its life after he exploded its mother by being too good in bed.Still skeptical? Here are a few more gems to consider: Ganesh was the very definition of an unplanned pregnancy.Īnd Abraham was totally cool about stabbing his kid in the face. Odin got construction discounts with bestiality. Narcissus probably should have just learned to masturbate. These are rude, crude, totally sacred texts told the way they were meant to be told: loudly, and with lots of four-letter words. In Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, Cory O’Brien, creator of Myths RETOLD!, sets the stories straight. In reality, mythology is more screwed up than a schizophrenic shaman doing hits of unidentified.wait, it all makes sense now. From the creator of Myths Retold comes a hilarious collection of Greek, Norse, Chinese and even Sumerian myths retold in their purest, bawdiest forms!Īll our lives, we’ve been fed watered-down, PC versions of the classic myths.

Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes by Cory O'Brien