I love the stories. As I've commented elsewhere, I think they're partly there to show us that Eugenides himself is destined to be a legend -- in The Thief was see how parts of his adventures parallel his namesake's. The one about Hesphestia, and the one about getting hit on the head with the amphora, though -- those are just fabulous stories, no matter how you look at them. But I am really a mythology nut, so I love all of them. And I also love that the author can take the time, right in the middle of the action, to say, okay, I'm going to tell you another story now -- without losing us, or losing the pace. For those who occasionally read grown-up books (Now and then I've been known to do this), another author who does this is Jeanette Winterson. She'll be in the middle of her plot, and then she'll say, out of the blue, "Let me tell you about the twelve dancing princesses."
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Date: 1/26/07 07:11 pm (UTC)And I also love that the author can take the time, right in the middle of the action, to say, okay, I'm going to tell you another story now -- without losing us, or losing the pace.
For those who occasionally read grown-up books (Now and then I've been known to do this), another author who does this is Jeanette Winterson. She'll be in the middle of her plot, and then she'll say, out of the blue, "Let me tell you about the twelve dancing princesses."