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I have two girls, they like;

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Little Women is good too.

>WoT For New Readers, Did it Age Well?

New readers for WoT: did they read well?

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>The book scene is also a bit different nowadays with the internet than it was in Robert Jordan's time. You can get countless books instantly from anywhere, that was absolutely not the case before. This is one of the reasons why overdescription has sharply declined. People don't want to read page after page of Elayne bathing. The modern reader doesn't have the same attention span as they used to.

Oh, for fuck's sake... As if before Robert Jordan there weren't Alistair MacLean, John Buchan, Agatha Christie, Robert E. Howard, Isaac Asimov, John D. Macdonald, Edward Stratemeyer, Rogue Male, Harold Lamb, Louis L'Amour, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Ngaio Marsh, The Mark of Zorro, Clive Cussler, Ernest Bramah, Raymond Chandler, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rudyard Kipling, John Collier, George MacDonald Fraser, dime novels generally, Arthur C. Clarke, Walter de la Mare, Saki, Jack Higgins, pulp fiction generally, The Prisoner of Zenda, Richard Matheson, Leigh Brackett, Frederick Forsyth, Mark Twain, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Graves, John Wyndham, Margery Allingham, Charles Beaumont, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, Zane Grey, The Rose of Tibet, Robert A. Heinlein, Anton Chekhov, Elmore Leonard, H. G. Wells, W. F. Harvey, Josephine Tey, H. Rider Haggard, M. R. James, Patrick O'Brian, Len Deighton, Golden Age crime novels generally, Joseph Conrad, Robert Aickman, Talbot Mundy, Bernard Cornwell, Dorothy Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, Kingsley Amis, Oliver Onions, The Cruel Sea, Ambrose Bierce, John le Carré, E. G. Swain, Henry Treece, Rafael Sabatini, C. S. Forester, Rosemary Sutcliff, E. F. Benson, Poul Anderson, Edgar Wallace, Ray Bradbury, O. Henry, Alfred Bester, Barry Pain, Hammond Innes, The Night of the Hunter, Patricia Highsmith, Eric Ambler, W. W. Jacobs, Edith Nesbit, John Dickson Carr, 1950s science fiction novels generally, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Fleming...

>One of the biggest hurdles new readers will have to overcome is the fact that while a lot of what WoT did a bit more cutting edge during its time, it is seen as unoriginal writing now.

Hmn. Let's see... Homer composed perhaps 27 centuries ago, then (to pick a few highlights) educated the Greeks, educated the Romans, influenced the Abrahamic religions, inspired the Renaissance, inspired the German Enlightenment, inspired the Romantics, inspired perhaps the [greatest 20th century novel](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel\)), inspired the masterwork of the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, and inspired a #1 New York Times bestseller just three years ago. Along the way Homer survived the invention of writing, punctuation, the codex, the printing press, the newspaper, the magazine, the railroad, the telegraph, the submarine cable, the radio, film, the paperback, television, and the internet. And yet "the cutting edge" is more than a fatuous buzzword in writing because... why?

I don't know much about "Deitie work," but can definitely point you in the right direction for research.

Since the myths are largely an oral history, there is no real AMAZING direct source. The oldest source we have is in Hesiod's Theogeny, but it is quite brief. The closest I can point you to a complete story is the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, I think verse 2 is Persphone's abduction? But I mean, the whole thing is worth reading. Homer is great.

You can definitely find plenty of mythological collections that include the story of Persephone and Hades. Any book that includes the history of Demeter will probably have it. You can try to research the Eleusian Mysteries, but the books about the subject are often tied up with descriptions of buildings and rituals. Not sure if that's exactly what you're after.

Other than that, most of the story is kind of collated separately and has been pieced together from various art, Greecian plays and bits of the oral tradition that have been translated. For example, Persephone is in the Orphic Hymns and the Odyssey.

I personally haven't found any novel retellings of Persephone's story (like those akin to Madeline Miller's Circe or Song of Achilles [which are both amazing books if you like Greek mythology]), but a lot of romance authors have rewritten the story.

And finally, the best part about researching Greek Myths, you can find a lot of information if you simply look for the Roman variants of the same Gods.

E.g. Persephone = Proserpine

Demeter = Ceres

Hades = Pluto

TL;DR = Information is scattered. Read: Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Google the Eleusian Mysteries, if you still want more look up Theogeny, the Orphic Hymns, and then the translated names of the Gods.