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    Mythology 101
    Mythology 101
    Mythology 101
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    Mythology 101

    By Jody Lynn Nye

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    From a New York Times–bestselling author, a college student’s plan to renovate his school’s library is opposed by a group of resident elves.
     
    Keith Doyle, believer in myths, goodhearted nerd, general busybody, and business major at Midwestern University, discovers to his joy—and horror—that a secret village of pointy-eared, magical little elves are occupying a vacant level of the library building. Their leader, The Master, tutors students to pass difficult courses. Marcy, the girl of Keith’s dreams, is already a member of the class. But the library is in danger of being torn down, thanks to a modernization campaign led by Keith himself. The students of the secret class hate him. Marcy is devastated. It looks as though the elves’ home will be destroyed. Keith and the Little Folk need one another. The only thing that can save Keith’s social life is elven magic. And the only thing that can save the elves is the magic of . . . free enterprise.
     
    “A great sense of humor.” —Piers Anthony, New York Times–bestselling author of The Magic of Xanth series
     
    “A good, jolly read . . .a book for people who like their fantasy straight up, with fizz, but without cuteness.” —Diane Duane, New York Times–bestselling author of The Wizard series
     
    “Wonderfully whimsical.” —Anne McCaffrey, New York Times–bestselling and Hugo Award–winning author of the Dragonriders of Pern series
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 23, 2014
    ISBN9781614752653
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    Jody Lynn Nye

    Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as “spoiling cats.” When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories. Since 1987 she has published over 40 books and more than 120 short stories. Among the novels Nye has written are her epic fantasy series The Dreamland, beginning with Waking In Dreamland, five contemporary humorous fantasies, Mythology 101, Mythology Abroad, Higher Mythology (the three collected by Meisha Merlin Publishing as Applied Mythology), Advanced Mythology, The Magic Touch, and three medical science fiction novels, Taylor’s Ark, Medicine Show and The Lady and the Tiger. Strong Arm Tactics is a humorous military science fiction novel, the first of The Wolfe Pack series. Nye wrote The Dragonlover’s Guide to Pern, a non-fiction-style guide to the world of internationally bestselling author Anne McCaffrey’s popular world. She also collaborated with Anne McCaffrey on four science fiction novels, The Death of Sleep, Crisis On Doona, Treaty At Doona and The Ship Who Won, and wrote a solo sequel to The Ship Who Won entitled The Ship Errant. Nye coauthored the Visual Guide to Xanth with bestselling fantasy author Piers Anthony, and edited an anthology of humorous stories about mothers in science fiction, fantasy, myth and legend, entitled Don’t Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear! She wrote eight books with the late Robert Lynn Asprin, License Invoked, a contemporary fantasy set in New Orleans, and seven set in Asprin’s Myth Adventures universe: Myth-Told Tales (anthology), Myth Alliances, Myth-Taken Identity, Class Dis-Mythed, Myth-Gotten Gains, Myth Chief, and Myth-Fortunes. After Asprin’s passing, she published Myth-Quoted and Dragons Deal (Ace Books), third in Asprin’s Dragons series. Her latest books are View From the Imperium (Baen Books), a humorous military SF novel, an e-collection of cat stories, Cats Triumphant (Event Horizon), Dragons Run (fourth in the Dragons series) and Launch Pad, an anthology of science fiction stories co-edited with Mike Brotherton. Over the last twenty or so years, Jody Lynn Nye has taught numerous writing workshops and participated on hundreds of panels covering the subjects of writing and being published at science-fiction conventions. She has spoken in schools and libraries around the north and northwest suburbs. In 2007 she taught fantasy writing at Columbia College Chicago. She also runs the two-day writers workshop at Dragon Con. She lives in the northwest suburbs of Atlanta, with her husband Bill Fawcett, a writer, game designer, military historian and book packager, and a black cat, Jeremy. Jody Lynn Nye became a Writers of the Future judge in 2016.

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      A quick, fun read about a mythology loving sociology student and his misadventures.
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      A decent story that's some approximation of urban fantasy, only without much urban. The premise was interesting, and I always appreciate Nye's work. That being said, it's one of her older works and it shows - having read her more recent books, it's noticeable how her characterisation, dialogue and writing in general has improved.I must confess I wasn't particularly keen on the protagonist; he felt like a bit of a Mary Sue at times. Although he's portrayed as slightly hapless and more enthusiastic than sensible, the fact is he always succeeds. He's clever; charming in the blathering, over-friendly, ingenuous way that Irish-derived characters often end up being written; attractive to at least two or three women; gets away with constant boundary-pushing and rule-breaking; talks himself out of trouble whenever necessary; and outwits formidable opponents. He can sway student commitees with ease, outwit thugs, and everyone likes him. His original rather mad theory about Little People turns out to be basically true. The one person who dislikes him throughout the book (apparently to a large extent because Keith takes every opportunity to challenge and one-up him, making Keith rather a troll; love rivalry is also involved) conveniently turns out to be an actual villain rather than simply a rival or someone who finds him annoying. In fact, at one point I'd put the book down and was seriously considering whether I could face picking it up again to read about more of Keith.Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the book - the section where they finally thwart their enemies is very gratifying and there are some great touches (like the latex). I'll probably read the rest of the series, especially since I got them as a set. However, Nye's later work is noticeably stronger and better-developed in my view. In particular, I think you could draw a comparison between Keith and Thomas Kinago of the "Imperium" series, who are fairly similar sorts, and see how much better-written Kinago is.

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