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Being a Greek god is not all it once was. Yes, the twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty-first century, but they are crammed together in a London townhouse-and none too happy about it. And they've had to get day jobs: Artemis as a dog-walker, Apollo as a TV psychic, Aphrodite as a phone sex operator, Dionysus as a DJ.
Even more disturbingly, their powers are waning, and even turning mortals into trees--a favorite pastime of Apollo's--is sapping their vital reserves of strength.
Soon, what begins as a minor squabble between Aphrodite and Apollo escalates into an epic battle of wills. Two perplexed humans, Alice and Neil, who are caught in the crossfire, must fear not only for their own lives, but for the survival of humankind. Nothing less than a true act of heroism is needed-but can these two decidedly ordinary people replicate the feats of the mythical heroes and save the world?
- Sales Rank: #604510 in Books
- Brand: Phillips, Marie
- Published on: 2008-12-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .75" w x 5.50" l, .65 pounds
- Binding: Perfect Paperback
- 320 pages
From AudioFile
Phillips's wildly funny romantic caper stars Greek gods who are living in a run-down townhouse in London, barely making a living and losing their powers. Apollo falls in love with Alice, a cleaning woman, who is in love with Neil, an engineer. Apollo and Neil face off, Alice is killed by lightening, and Apollo falls into a coma, turning the sun off and threatening mankind's existence. Neil makes a perilous journey to the underworld to rescue Alice and bring Apollo back to life. Tom Sellwood undertakes an enormous cast of characters--from sexy, deep-throated goddesses to the whiny Apollo and an assortment of Londoners. The abridgment is flawless, keeping a high-energy pace and offering a barrel of laughs. M.T.B. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Marie Phillips was born in London in 1976. She studied anthropology at Cambridge University and worked as a researcher at the BBC. More recently she worked as an independent bookseller while writing Gods Behaving Badly.
From Publishers Weekly
With a bit of sibling rivalry, some incestuous Greek gods, and good ol' contemporary London, Phillips puts together an amusing epic journey with perhaps a bit less pizzazz than Homer. Jealous of Neil, a mortal, because Alice loves him, Apollo schemes to bring about Alice's demise, but his sister Artemis won't let dead mortals lie. Needing a hero for a journey, she enlists the timid Neil to go into Hades and recover Alice (and save the world while he's at it). Phillips's tale is a delightful flight of fancy into the world of what would the Greek gods do that is adequately abridged, though listeners may want to hear the full extent of the characters' exploits. Tom Sellwood delivers in an English accent that works well with the setting. He ably projects the various gods' and goddesses' personas through their dialogue, so Apollo's arrogance is heard as well as Ares' more aggressive personality. Sellwood is at his best as Neil, the dry and mild-mannered engineer who gets caught up in the games of the gods.
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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Sitcom of the Gods
By bensmomma
I just read that Ben Stiller's production company has optioned "Gods" for development as a TV series; I hope this hysterically funny yet sweet-tempered farce is not destroyed by a sitcom mentality.
In "Gods Behaving Badly," the gods of Olympus have been holed up in a decrepit London flat for almost 400 years of decay. Forced to make a living, Aphrodite turns to phone sex, Artemis walks dogs on Hampstead Heath, Dionysus runs a sleazy bar, and Apollo has a lame fortune-telling show on cable TV. Eros (Cupid) shoots Apollo with love's arrow, and his lusty gaze falls on poor timid Alice, a cleaning lady attending the show with Neil, a structural engineer who secretly loves her. In pursuit of Alice, Apollo comes close to destroying the world, and nerdish Neil must descend into the Underworld to rescue Alice (and the world) from death.
This *does* I admit sound like a sitcom premise; what rescues "Gods Behaving Badly" is the author's witty dialogue and almost romantic sympathy for her characters - even the naughty ones. Apollo's pursuit of little Alice has a kind of Marx-Brothers manic frenzy to it, and for bawdy comedy the book rivals Christopher Moore (one of my favorite authors), but with a more coherent plot, believe it or not. Read it before television gets hold of it!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting & amusing premise, but comes up short
By Chefdevergue
This book certainly got off to a promising start, enough so that I kept moving along through some of the more tedious Neil-and-Alice moments. Marie Phillips writes well enough so that most people should be able to make their way through this novel in no more than two days.
It does have some laugh-out-loud moments, and some pretty good dialogue, but the author seems to have used up her best material before the first half of the book is completed. By the time the nebbishy Neil begins his (for lack of a better term) heroic quest, I felt myself trudging along obligingly, despite suspecting that an obvious conclusion was waiting for me. Sadly, there were no surprises in store.
It doesn't help that the author, while obviously having done good background research, only seems really interested in the character of Artemis. With the possible exception of Eros, all of the other gods & mortals seem to be filler for the most part. Alice & Neil are extremely mundane, and while this certainly makes sense in the larger context of the plotline, it doesn't necessarily make for engaging characters.
It wasn't a disappointment, and it certainly had some rather amusing moments --- but ultimately, I would have to file this one in the "could have been so much better" category.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Those Greek Gods Always Were a Nasty Bunch
By Patrick Shepherd
While the concept for this novel has been utilized before by other authors, such as Neil Gaiman's American Gods, this work puts a new face on all those Greek gods you had to study about in high school, and the face is decidedly not complimentary.
The Greek pantheon is now installed in a London townhouse, having moved there in 1665 when prices were cheap. Given the age of the house, it's not surprising that it's not palatial - in fact it's downright grungy, broken-down, and quite filthy, as obviously none of these gods ever stoops to actually cleaning anything. And the gods themselves seem to be only a pale image of what they used to be, with limited power reserves and no apparent real desire to change how things are. And you might remember that these gods had decidedly different ideas about sex and family life, an item that hasn't changed in all the centuries, as these beings are still going at it in ways that would certainly shock poor Mrs. Grundy.
It's this incestuous and tumultuous relationship between two of the gods, Aphrodite and Apollo, that eventually snare two ordinary mortals in its web, one an engineer, one a cleaning lady. How they fare and what influence they eventually have on the on the whole situation forms the heart of the plot, which actually makes sense given the starting assumptions.
There's a fair amount of humor suffusing this work, and some of the portraits of the gods are hilarious - I particularly enjoyed the description of Athena, goddess of wisdom, who can't seem to utter a sentence without using obfuscating polysyllabic words and conveying zero information, much like certain academics. The two mortals are reasonably well portrayed, though not in any great depth. The prose is pretty utilitarian and it reads quickly, but there are both some graphic sex scenes and uses of some language that might offend some readers.
The biggest flaw of this book is the ending, which is just too pat and uses a near-cliché as the `answer' to the god's problems. But I found the book to be quite an enjoyable read, giving me a few chuckles, and with a little bit of wholesome goodness in the concept of a modern day `hero' going up against these almighty gods of yesteryear. Not a great book, but fun.
--- Reviewed by Patrick Shepherd (hyperpat)
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