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Badass: The Birth of a Legend: Spine-Crushing Tales of the Most Merciless Gods, Monsters, Heroes, Villains, and Mythical Creatures Ever Envisioned Paperback - 2011
by Ben Thompson
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From the author of "Badass" and the creator of the epic Web site badassoftheweek.com comes a celebration of the most hardcore gods, monsters, wide-smiled heroes, and merciless arch-nemeses--including Zeus, Dirty Harry, and El Chupacabra.
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From sex-crazed gods to ravenous monsters, Ben Thompson brings legendary titans to life in tales of adventure, bloodlust, and unrelenting badassitude.
Since the beginning of human history people have created myths, tall tales, superheroes, and arch-villains--men and women who embarked on insane adventures, performed extraordinary feats of unparalleled awesomeness, and overcame all odds to violently smite their foes into bloody pulp. In Badass: The Birth of a Legend, Ben Thompson compiles these fantastical tales from the beginning of time to today and tells them in the completely over-the-top manner in which they were intended, including:
Rama
The Indian god-king who led an army of monkeys against the King of All Demons
Thor
The Viking god of thunder and awesome hair, who crushed the skulls of giants with a ridiculously huge hammer
Beowulf
An Anglo-Saxon hero so hardcore he could arm-wrestle monsters' joints out of their sockets
Moby-Dick
The hate-filled literary behemoth who obliterated ship hulls with his face
Skuld
The Norse necromancer queen who summoned a horde of zombie berserkers
Dirty Harry Callahan
The prototypical modern-day antihero and very embodiment of badass
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- Title Badass: The Birth of a Legend: Spine-Crushing Tales of the Most Merciless Gods, Monsters, Heroes, Villains, and Mythical Creatures Ever Envisioned
- Author Ben Thompson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Original
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Publication date 2011-03-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780062001351 / 0062001353
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
- Category Sociology
- Library of Congress subjects Mythology, Legends
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010051643
- Dewey Decimal Code 398.2
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- Publishers Weekly, 02/07/2011, Page 0
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