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Old 12-12-2022, 01:46 PM   #5
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In the "transferred to a different, more modern setting" camp, I often recommend Michael Hughes' Country: a reimagining of Homer's Iliad set in mid-1990s Northern Ireland.
I was going to ask you if listened to this as one of my libraries has the audio; then I saw you had. Narration by the author is generally a huge no-no for me, but as you’ve vouched for it there’s no reason not to give it a try. In any case, sounds my kind of thing.

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Then a separate category is the modern sequel that takes (ideally oldest canonical version) of possibly immortal characters and imagines what the they are doing now. Rick Riordan, Neil Gaiman, Joanne Harris and Alan Garner do it very differently. But I have a vested interest in this!
Thanks for the names. I even have the first Percy Jackson (unread) and I’ve read some Gaimans with enjoyment, The Graveyard Book and Coraline.. I shall have to look out titles by him that fit this theme. Harris and Garner are familiar to me in name only.
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