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When I was asked to choose a myth to write about, I realized I had chosen already The story of Atlas holding up the world was in my mind before the telephone call had ended If the call had not come, perhaps I would never have written the story, but when the call did come, that story was waiting to be written Rewritten The recurring language motif of Weight is I want to tell the story again My work is full of cover versions I like to take stories we think we know and record them differently In the retelling comes a new emphasis or bias, and the new arrangement of the key elements demands that fresh material be injected into the existing text Weight moves far away from the simple story of Atlas s punishment and his temporary relief when Heracles takes the world off his shoulders I wanted to explore loneliness, isolation, responsibility, burden, and freedom, too, because my version has a very particular end not found elsewhere from Jeanette Winterson s Foreword to Weight New Read Weight Author Jeanette Winterson For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This book is a disease ridden hooker in a business suit It s a sand pail made of tissue paper All pretense and no heart, this retelling of centuries old myths features heaping spoonfuls of stereotypes, cliched metaphors, sexist commentary, baseless pomp, and comically bad dialogue Who tells a person that you re my fatedrop dead gorgeous Anyone in their right mind would have maniacally cackled in his face rather than let him ejaculate all over them She s Hera, for fucksake HERA She kn This book is a disease ridden hooker in a business suit It s a sand pail made of tissue paper All pretense and no heart, this retelling of centuries old myths features heaping spoonfuls of stereotypes, cliched metaphors, sexist commentary, baseless pomp, and comically bad dialogue Who tells a person that you re my fatedrop dead gorgeous Anyone in their right mind would have maniacally cackled in his face rather than let him ejaculate all over them She s Hera, for fucksake HERA She knows some things.An idle pass of its admittedl...Weight The Myth of Atlas and Hercules, Jeanette Winterson New York Cannongate, 2005 Hardcover, 18.00 ISBN 1 84195 718 6Have you ever read someone you re a fan of and thought there s no way to do it better than this For me it s Jeanette Winterson, her lyricism, her wide flung knowledge of mythology and science, and humanness and a...3.5 stars Book 2 of my 2016 Booktube Recommends project thanks to Jean at BookishThoughts for recommending me this one and gifting it for my birthday D I wasn t very aware of the figure of Atlas in mythology, or in general I had an image of a man holding up a globe on his back, but that was literally it And Heracles Well, I d seen the 90s Disney film psst, it s one of my favourites So this was definitely one of the Canongate Myths series that I knew I wanted to get to.After reading 3.5 stars Book 2 of my 2016 Booktube Recommends project thanks to Jean at BookishThoughts for recommending me this one and gifting it for my birthday D I wasn t very aware of the figure of Atlas in mythology, or in general I had an image of a man holding up a globe on his back, but that was literally it And Heracles Well, I d seen the 90s Disney film psst, it s one of my favourites So this was definitely one of the Canongate Myths series that I knew I wanted to get to.After reading Weight however, I m still not quite sure how to respond it Because of my lack of knowledge of the original myth, I m not entirely sure how close the events of the book match the original myth, and what if any of these events were Jeanette Winterson s own creation What I did really enjoy was the prose style Winterson writes some incredibly beautiful prose at times, and I liked that the tone of the book went from lyrical to brash and crude mo...As always, with Jeannette Winterson s work, there are parts of this that caught at me phrases, quotable bites, a scene here and there but for the most part I was underwhelmed More underwhelmed than usual, perhaps It had a very light, dismissive tone that just didn t work for me, and the characterisation of Heracles as a big idiot just isn t anything new That exact character has been given so many names.Also, weird sex stuff between Heracles and Hera Just, what And weird interludes As always, with Jeannette Winterson s work, there are parts of this that caught at me phrases, quotable bites, a scene ...One third of the way through this book and I m discarding it This is not the intelligent read I thought it would be and that s all I m prepared to say about it.Fruto da ac o da gravidade sobre os corpos que, em tempos idos, impulsionou uma ma sobre a cabe a de um grande pensador , o peso uma unidade vectorial que nos for a a manter os p s bem assentes na Terra Dimensionado medida de cada um, concebe um fardo personalizado que preserva a liga o ao mundo real.O que dizer ent o de Atlas Esse filho de Tit s que foi penitenciado a suportar o peso do globo terrestre como castigo pela afronta em degladiar se contra os deuses do Olimpo, numa luta Fruto da ac o da gravidade sobre os corpos que, em tempos idos, impulsionou uma ma ...5000 5 stars This book is the definition of perfection I went into this book, basically only knowing that my favourite author Jeanette Winterson wrote it, and that it had something to do with greek mythology Since it s Jeanette Winterson, I should probably have been prepared for this mind blowing my life will never be the same again feeling that I now have in my body, but still I m amazed and shocked Where shall I even begin Okay, let s start with saying that this is a retelling of the gr 5000 5 stars This book is the definition of perfection I went into this book, basically only knowing that my favourite author Jeanette Winterson wrote it, and that it had something to do with greek mythology Since it s Jeanette Winterson, I should probably have been prepared for this mind blowing my life will never be the same again feeling that I now have in my body, but still I m amazed and shocked Where shall I even begin Okay, let s start with saying that this is a retelling of the greek myth of Atlas that gets the punish of holding up the world I know some things about ancient greek myths but very little so I was a bit worried that I wouldn t understand anything, but that wasn t the case at all Sure, you should probably know some of the major greek gods, like Zeus and Hera, but apart from that, it s not necessary at all I found myself understanding everything and I was never confused.The plot is rather simple, since it s a myth, but Jeanette ...Ugh What an awful book.The author wants to tell the story of Heracles and Atlas Cool Apparently she thinks she s the first person to make to connection between this ancient tale and the story of Jesus, insofar as interrupting the story with an entire chapter explaining the whole bearing the weight of the world emotion Though, curiously, she seems to have forgotten about St Christopher She also seems to have learned a new dirty word prick Since Winterson has apparently decided to tu Ugh What an awful book.The author wants to tell the story of Heracles and Atlas Cool Apparently she thinks she s the first person to make to connection between this ancient tale and the story of Jesus, insofar as interrupting the story with an entire chapter explaining the whole bearing the weight of the world emotion Though, curiously, she seem...I never really liked Jeanette Winterson but after her re telling of Shakespeare s A Winter s Tale, I was curious to read her re telling of Hercules and Atlas encounter.It is excellent Hercules is portrayed as a sex crazed yob, Atlas as a misunderstood Titan There s a lot of laughs, something rare in Winterson s novels and the ending took me by surprise It is tender and delicate and puts our universe, and in a way the whole concept of Atlas, in perspective It s nothing you ll get what I I never really liked Jeanette Winte...Een korte roman waarin Winterson de mythe van Atlas en Herakles opnieuw vertelt en daarbij reflecteert op haar eigen leven Jammer genoeg komt dit als geheel niet uit de verf, het rammelt aan alle kanten Van haar overpeinzingen tussendoor geniet ik dan weer wel enorm.

• English
• 26 May 2018
Jeanette Winterson
• Hardcover
• 151 pages
• 1841957186
• Jeanette Winterson
• Weight