I'm not quite sure what I just read. No, really. Sjon's writing has always been fluid and stunning. And that's here. I liked the first two books the best. The last, seems to be an written form of Sjon's own morality. The first book is a wonderful expression of reader and writer working t...
bookshelves: cover-love, iceland, published-2005, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, paper-read, one-penny-wonder, lit-richer, newtome-author, translation, oneupmanship, period-piece, autumn-2014, fantasy, fanfic-writeback, mythology Read on October 19, 2014 Translated from the Icelandic by Vict...
Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. The story itself is not as good as the blurb on the back leads you to believe. Despite reading another of Sjón's novels prior, I had an idea of what I'd be going into, but From the Mouth of the Whale was maybe weirder than The ...
Myth or Mythos, From the Ancient Greek μῦθος (muthos, “report”, “tale”, “story”)A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group.Anything delivered by word of mouth: a word, speech, conversation, or similar; a ...
In the prelude to this tale we follow a hunter on his way home from hunting some colossal and huge tusked boar, “the most savage brute the north has ever snorted from it’s icy nostrils”, although the traditional way is to leave the carcass where it fell, the hunter is carrying it home to demonstra...
An occasionally interesting but often a bit frustrating read. It could've been more than it was - but I can see why it garnered so much praise. There is something undoubtedly magical here... but not magical enough. The magic of the story and of the writing is intermittent for me and I don't see w...
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