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... Trader 16. Traveling Gentlemen 17. The Sisters Grimm 18. The Raphael Affair 19. The Beekeepers Apprentice 20. The Odyssey 21. Graham Greene The Complete Short Stories 22. Unseen Academicals 23. The Winter Thief 24. The Ethical Assassin 25. Ghost

I thought I had already posted here;-( I have two cats Circe - named after the enchantress in the Odyssey and Muzzy - named after a character in the film Thoroughly Modern Millie.

... hit #1 and #2 simultaneously on HR, his reviews for American Psycho and The Iliad, and he's currently got The Odyssey on HR. Glad to have another fine writer and thinker join our midst. Welcome aboard, Steven!

... of the translator's craft. It seems important for ancient Greek texts (there's a lot of LT commentary about Illiad and Odyssey translations) as well for 19th century Russian novels.

... see your point. Seriously, I don't think anyone should make it out of this world without having read The Illiad and The Odyssey, and it's been a while since I looked at the list, but is Shakespeare on it? I think one should read his work, as well.

... Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf X The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist The Iliad by Homer The Odyssey by Homer The Chronicle of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Y Year's Best SF 12 edited by David G. Hartwell Your Heart Belongs to Me by D ...

... killed Agamemnon -- their story is in Aeschylusʻs Agamemnon, and also touched on briefly in the opening lines of the Odyssey *my translation of "amumonos Aigisthoio" as he is called in Oddyssey I. This has been mistranslated as "blameless Aegistheus". Anne Parry, who ...

The best way to read Ulysses is to have Homer's Odyssey at one elbow and Stuart Gilbert's James Joyce's Ulysses. A Study by Stuart Gilbert at the other -- read a book in Homer, then the corresponding chapter in Joyce, and then Gilbert's elucidations. It's actually rather fun and quite ...

... by Neil Gaiman 7. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami 8. Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester 9. The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles. 10. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

... & alien life forms, etc. It finally became an odd mixture of The Lord of the Rings (a very obvious influence) and The Odyssey as more and more fantastic creatures were encountered. For example, Hiero and his group of sailors were drugged asleep by a race of beautiful avian women and ...

Aeneid by Vergil Odyssey by Homer The Diggerʻs Game by George V. Higgins Gospel of John Gospel of Luke War and Peace by {Lev Tolstoi Thesmophoriazusae by Aristophanes Fasti by Ovid Othello, Julius Caesar, the M ...

I have listened to Stanley Lombardo reading his translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Susan Sarandon reads the chapter headings. There is also some primitive music in the background. I enjoyed them both. In the introduction of the print editions Lombardo said that as he worked on the ...

34: Kiss Me Kate is also The Taming of the Shrew. Also, O Brother Where Art Thou is a modern retelling of The Odyssey. Did we decide to skip the Odyssey retellings, since they'd encompass an awful lot? 35: I agree, he reminds me of Dupin. But so does Hercule Poirot.

... Sophocles? How about Ulysses and Omeros - both modern works really telling different stories but tying into the Odyssey? Or do we just count Kazantzakis' Odyssey? Christa Wolf's Kassandra is on my tbr list, too. But help me, all - I think the Troy stories are the West's M ...

... The Penelopiad. Although, (and it's some years since I read it), I did like it. But then I had to go back and re-visit The Odyssey, which I hadn't read since university, and that took up such a lot of my head space, that I started to resent it. (Thanks for the general offer, but I really ...

... is truth in what you say: many of my LEC books look as though they have never been read, and I bought an LEC edition of The Odyssey a few years ago in an estate auction that was still in the original UNOPENED mailing box--published date, 1981.

... novellas, here's a thread for this genre. Classics: Of course, we all agree on the canon -- Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Ramayana, Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost My favorites: The Lais of Marie de France, Sir Gaw ...

... better than Jacobi's. Rouse' prose translation is also very fluid and easy to follow. I finished both Iliad and Odyssey on audiobooks and enjoyed them very much. On the other hand, the printed Aeneid has been sitting on my shelf for three weeks, and I've yet to start it.

... by Cecelia Ahern 829- Beowulf 839- Brand by Henrik Ibsen 843- The Year is '42 by Nella Bielski 883- The Odyssey by Homer 891- The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

... yet very much an insider (to his own mind) he would be much preferred by Joyce as a character paralleling Odysseus of the Odyssey to your average Dublin alcoholic. * I say ethnicity rather than religion, because Bloom is unreligious and, technically, is not even Jewish in religion, having ...

> 1, This is a stretch, but for fiction, we might as well add Candide and The Odyssey.

... me since I listened to them on records called Classics for Children. Now I have six translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey and usually read one of them every year. I am always moved by the stories and usually find something new each time I read one of the books. My theory is ...

... t: Death at the Priory by James Ruddick – good story focusing on the status (lack thereof!) of Victorian women Homer’s Odyssey by Gwen Cooper – at first it might seem “cutesy” but actually pretty interesting. Reading the OED by Ammon Shea – I liked it, but the ...

I signed up for audible.com two months ago. The audiobook that got me hooked was Homer's Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles and narrated by Ian Mckellen, which is not available for free download from OverDrive through my library system. A classics read by a great actor, I just couldn't resist. No ...

... private edition of the papers, designed by Bruce Rogers (who incidentally then goes off to commission a translation of The Odyssey from Laurence of Arabia), and later the triumphant publication of the trade edition of the magnificent London Journal in 1950. Wow! - all this and we haven't ...

... Anna Karenina The Idiot Light in August Good Soldier Svejk Pride and Prejudice Passage to India Iliad, Odyssey Huckleberry Finn Good Soldier Lord Jim Franny and Zooey Grendel Song of the Lark Wise Blood The Outsider Daring Young Man No Country ...

... self Blue Ocean Strategy The Long Tail 700 – Art Building the Getty 800 – Literature The Iliad The Odyssey 900 – History Traitor to His Class

Which of these is not "speculative fiction" The Odyssey Don Quixote Shamela David Copperfield Middlemarch Emma The woman in White Portrait of a Lady The Sea Wolf I could go on. Okay, which one is not speculative fiction?

... Luke by St. Luke The Ice Man Cometh by Eugene OʻNeill Jonathan Wild by Henry Fielding The Odyssey attributed to Homer On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Junger Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett The Upanishads (anon.) -- Hindu ...

... cannot read Greek), and as a female teenager and non-classicist, I'm not sure I got that much out of it. I tended to prefer The Odyssey, as it featured journeys and monsters. I'd've loved to have a commentary like OldSarge's -- would probably have made it much more interesting to me. A ...

... who is quoted as saying, " A translation should SOUND LIKE a translation." Thus, the late 19th c. translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad (Lang, Leaf & Myers, and Butcher do "sound like a translation". (Some have said their English --in style, more than in vocabulary-- was ...

... ditched our TV.) You're reading some great books. I loved Ruth Reichl's ones, especially Tender at the Bone. I have The Odyssey waiting patiently for me (the Fagles translation)...it's been waiting 10 years and never quite beats out the competition!

Now THAT's a good mix--which translation of ODYSSEY?

... Classical Greek: Oedipus 882--Classical Greek drama: The Oresteia 883--Classical Greek epic poetry & fiction: The Odyssey 888--Classical Greek miscellaneous writings: Protagoras and Meno 890--Literatures of other languages: 891--East Indo-European & Celtic: The Book ...

... etc. Whether one individual may not "get" them is not to the point--the majority of literate people still appreciate The Odyssey and The Iliad, the Divine Comedy, The Canterbury Tales, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, etc. These works have engendered progeny--so ...

... about a mix? I've had too many students come up to me and tell me how grateful they were that I required works like the Odyssey or The Mysteries of Udolpho, which they would never have read on their own but which they now loved. Imagine spending years reading nothing but the Sweet Valley H ...

... some of the others in the Oxford History of United States series. I thought the Fagles translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey were very good. I also enjoyed the translations by Stanley Lombardo. Lombardo's translation discarded the classic rhyming scheme and uses more modern day ...

... to Wikipedia: "Homer did not name the twenty-four books of the Iliad; they were named by the translators. The poems Odyssey and Iliad each comprise an equal number of books." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad#The_books ETA links

Hey --BJ; I have yet to read the 6th and 7th HP books, but so far I think I favor "The Prisoner of Azkaban". Oh, silly me---you were talking about the bookstores, weren't you. hee hee!~! I liked the one in Plano the best. I liked how it was set up and the order of the books. But all of them ...

... I have already made up my mind as "here I is!~!" hugs & snugs, belva I think I need to rid myself of my Iliad and Odyssey and get new translations. So Fagles, huh? Worth looking into. Thanx.

... to help the reader visualize what, as he points out, can't be seen, only intellectualized. >> 58 I need to read The Odyssey again.

Book 49: The Odyssey by Homer An epic story of the hero Odysseus’ journey home from war against all odds. Samuel Butler, one of the early translators, might have a point, when he argued that the Odyssey was written by a woman. (For a full review with possible spoiler, see http://bookson ...

... these plays were actually meant to be entertaining and funny beyond the corny sex puns and the slapstick). I also object to The Odyssey, from which I was forced to read 3 times! I liked A Separate Peace, actually- but I think because we got to do this one in small groups . I read 1984 ...

Circe is an enchantress - turned men into swine. Don't people read the Odyssey! Actually she was named after the lyrics in a King Crimson song. Here Odysseus charm'd for dark Circe fell (Formentera Lady on the album Islands) and she is a little charmer in person. In case anybody ...

... imaginitive expression. (This does not equate expression with content, so pipe down every literalist.) The Iliad, The Odyssey and Aristophanes' The Frogs plus Lysistrata for proof that we ain't boo-turkey different from our forebears. The Republic of Plato; The Laws of Cicero ...

Happy birthday! (A little early...) I haven't read the Fagle's translation of The Iliad and The Odyssey, but I read his translation of The Aeneid and loved it... have to see if I can get my hands on those eventually!

My birthday's in five days and my lovely roommate bought be the Fagle's translation of Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey! I have the book I'm reading right now, two biographies checked out from the library, and then I have to read The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (because I ...

... it was. I read a series of letters between Lawrence and Bruce Rogers when the latter was preparing a new edition of The Odyssey, with Lawrence as the intended translator. The project dragged on interminably as Lawrence worked in fits and starts, one day saying he was on a roll and ...

... would be nice. I got a little bit of world literature in English I or II, but it consisted of a few little bits of the Odyssey, Genesis, and The Epic of Gilgamesh and some short stories. I would enjoy reading novels such as Things Fall Apart or The Dream of the Red Chamber.

... Waldo Emerson THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS Four Quartets Julius Caesar Brave New World The Iliad The Odyssey 900 – History The Battle for Gaul The Civil War Team of Rivals No Ordinary Time

Re #3: Amen. On another thread I mentioned paying a phenomenal price for a copy of T.E.Lawrence's translation of The Odyssey, only to find when I opened it that 2 pages were blank at the climactic scene (when Odysseus "bends and strings that mighty bow," and shoots the arrow through the axes). ...

... books and The Scarlett Letter. I'm not sure if those are classics though. I would have liked to read more Greek books The Odyssey Aeneid The Last Days of Socrates. I second Frankenstein it's a great book. I'd also recommend The Golden Warrior although that might take a lot of ...

... that made it so funny. It was a series of very short synopsis of classic works of literature. I'm fairly certain the Odyssey was in there, as was The Grapes of Wrath and The Great Gatsby. Something by a , possibly Wuthering Heights. They were all read very quickly, and with some ...

... of Katherine Hepburn’s books. It seems that most of the Legacy’s I share with have one or both of The Prince and The Odyssey. A few however that I share only one book with caught my attention. Jackie Gleason and Sagan’s The Cosmic Connection, and Harry Truman and Murder Ink, Aaro ...

... If You're Reading This, It's Too Late by Pseudonymous Bosch - 373 pp 68. A Test of Wills by Charles Todd - 282 pp 69. The Odyssey by Homer - 462 pages 70. Making the Most of Your Devotional Life by Derek Thomas - 212 pp 71. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson - 537 pp 72. The Well ...

... ://images.amazon.com/images/P/1841957178.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> Summary An alternate telling of The Odyssey from the perspective of Odysseus' wife. Part of "The Myths" series - classic myths retold by famous authors in a modern way. (Other authors include AS Byatt and ...

... maybe one day I'll read the other two parts again. 9. If you want to read this read The Aenied, the Iliad and the Odyssey first.

... books she addresses (Moby Dick and Wuthering Heights), encourage me to read ones I've never touched (Middlemarch and The Odyssey), and, in one case, affirm my decision to quit a book after the first fourth or so (Crime and Punishment). Recommended.

41. The Oddysey by Homer - What can I say? The Oddysey is one of the first thrillers, actions, adventure, love and horror stories all rolled into one. That being said, it's a great work, not just for being an ancestor of modern works, but for being a great work even in comparison.

... spite of our differences. And come to think of it, isn't the futility and waste of war a primary theme of The Iliad and The Odyssey. P.S. I absolutely adore The Master and Margarita. It's one of my favorite novels. But as I overheard someone say recently in a thread, "Your mileage may ...

I just finished The Odyssey by Homer. Next up - Metamorphoses by Ovid - due back to the library soon so I better get cracking. And, I'm holding off because my TBR is already large enough, but I've made note to dive into Trollope sometime soon.

69. The Odyssey by Homer - 462 pages Lots of fun and I'm glad I've finally read both of them.

41. The Odyssey by Homer A very fine read. I'm glad I've finally read these 2 and I look forward to the Aeneid soon. But first, Metamorphoses by Ovid.

... ird Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre Alice in Wonderland Kafka on the Shore All the Pretty Horses The Trial The Odyssey Ditto on how tough it is to narrow it down.

For the Iliad and Odyssey, try Robert Fagles. His translations are very readable. My own preference is for the Odyssey -- in any translation I find the Iliad heavier going, but that's just my personal taste. Otherwise, if I can I go to a big bookshop and look at several translations ...

... ckens. Fool and King Lear. Pride and Prejudice and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I take it Ulysses and the odyssey doesn't count.

... name do you look for as to the translator of the work/s? I was attempting The Iliad this summer and also wanted to read The Odyssey, but I was unable to even get past the intro so I skipped (eventually) to the text of the book and 40/50 pages in, put 'er down. My translations were both by Ro ...

... name do you look for as to the translator of the work/s? I was attempting The Iliad this summer and also wanted to read The Odyssey, but I was unable to even get past the intro so I skipped (eventually) to the text of the book and 40/50 pages in, put 'er down. My translations were both by Ro ...

... Introduction, but chomping at the bit to get started on the actual text! Does anyone know of a group read for this or The Odyssey??

... Classics for Dummies", but nada. I think I may check on line for something. I really want to read The Iliad and The Odyssey but apparently they are books that I will need to go into training for. Thanx for stopping by. I hope your day is going very well. belva

... Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad last night and so far it is fabulous! I think I may have to give The Iliad and The Odyssey another shot.

... not yet read so I will concentrate on those and the "few" purchases I make. As in; coming in the post today: Gilead The Odyssey though why I bought that one, I do not know as I seem to have a reading block with the Greek/Roman classics and have not been get through The Iliad yet. The ...

I LOVE both THE ODYSSEY and ILIAD (particularly the Robert Fagles translations) but AENEID I found stupefyingly dull. Had to really struggle to get through it. Indeed, it's no ODYSSEY and Virgil was no Homer. Not even in the same ballpark. Do try Conn Iggulden's writing--he's brilliant ...

... oldest classical mythology. (It even contains the creation of an ancient historical reason for the Punic Wars!) It's no Odyssey, but it's quite interesting, particularly against the political and historical background. If I'm not mistaken, someone did a well received translation of it quite ...

... times. And my goodness, the men got away with it all!~! I wonder if I will get the giggles when I get around to reading The Odyssey. Chances are: NOT!~!

... A case in point: I paid over $350 in an auction for a Limited Editions Club volume of T. E. Lawrence's translation of The Odyssey, with original wood engravings by Barry Moser. It was still in the unopened shipping carton (from over 25 years ago) with all the associated publisher's ...

>7, Yeah, and let's leave Cold Mountain out of this. The Odyssey is much better, as was Oh Brother, Where Art Thou.

515, 516, 517, You didn't like Huckleberry Finn? It's a great 19th century Odyssey. It's ALMOST as good as Twain's short stories. But actually, it's about the last 25% of Huckleberry Finn that is a total waste. When ol' Tom Sawyer and his sadistic antics turn up, that really ruins ...

515, 516, 517, You didn't like Huckleberry Finn? It's a great 19th century Odyssey. It's ALMOST as good as Twain's short stories. But actually, it's about the last 25% of Huckleberry Finn that is a total waste. When ol' Tom Sawyer and his sadistic antics turn up, that really ruins ...

About half way through The Odyssey, with the story recast in dialogue form by Simon Armitage. Really well done!

Starting Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres and The Odyssey by Simon Armitage, a dialogue version. Both very good so far.

... a translation at best may be an unique work in itself. In a recent posting somewhere else, I quoted the opening lines of The Odyssey in several different translations--each at one time being considered "the best available." While the meaning in each version is the same as in the the ...

I'm currently reading Victory of Eagles and rereading the Iliad and the Odyssey. :) Just finished Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. Those were... just.. Ug. :)

Hey since we're in a booksale mood.... I just received an extra copy of the Odyssey that I don't need; Lattimore translation, 99 edition. Like new condition; don't think the person I got it from even read it. It was one of these where I ordered it on half.com and they never sent it, so I had to ...

... series less well know mythology is going to have to be used. Sea of Monsters was great because so much of it was based on The Odyssey, which I remember from my Greek Lit class in college. I really didn't remember anything from this third book. Book Count: 28 First Reads: 17 Rereads: 11 La ...

... in Yorkshire. It's no longer square, but it held up well. The series included Crime and Punishment, Silas Marner, The Odyssey, Gulliver's Travels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and others. I bought a few as duplicates in my library just so I could carry them in my pocket on trips ...

... he lived, and the styles then prevalent, as it does about the original work. I have read over a dozen translations of The Odyssey over the years, and it is remarkable that what was "the best available translation" over the past 400 years, may not meet with approval today. George Chapman's ...

... copies in Lattimore's translation and they looked very sad indeed. I caved in and ordered both The Illiad and The Odyssey. - I may go bankrupt this summer. I'll be poor but happy. (Touchstone doesn't know Homer?)

... Iliad at my favourite bookstore. Best of all, it's translated by Robert Fitzgerald, the guy who changed my mind about The Odyssey. I think it may be my next read; I can't wait to dive in.

Ahh - The Penelopiad - another novel that I keep bumping into! Would you say that you had to be familiar with The Odyssey to fully enjoy it? I know the general outline of the story, but have not actually read it.

... he's about to "break into blossom". Edward Dorn's epic Gunslinger and Allen Ginsburg's Howl get me. Ancient: The Odyssey by Homer - I like the Robert Fagles translation. 26) Essay? Well, it's pretty long to be called an "essay", but what comes to mind is Mountains Be ...

58. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. A delightful romp through The Odyssey from Penelope's perspective. It's a salute to Atwood's talent that she can write a book like this as well as a book like Oryx and Crake.

... of Somerset Maugham's writing. As in this quote from Larry: "You can't imagine what a thrill it is to read the Odyssey in the original. It makes you feel as if you had only to get on tiptoe and stretch out your hands to touch the stars." There is one point in the novel where the ...

... the brilliance of Maugham's writing. As in this quote from Larry: "You can't imagine what a thrill it is to read the Odyssey in the original. It makes you feel as if you had only to get on tiptoe and stretch out your hands to touch the stars." There is one point in the novel where the ...

... of Somerset Maugham's writing. As in this quote from Larry: "You can't imagine what a thrill it is to read the Odyssey in the original. It makes you feel as if you had only to get on tiptoe and stretch out your hands to touch the stars." There is one point in the novel where the ...

... school materials. Alas, they live at my parent's house so I don't have direct access to them. But from what I remember The Odyssey Going After Cacciato The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Cold Mountain Huckleberry Finn I think that was the extent of the major reading. There were ...

... I am moving ahead on two fronts: 1)On one front, I am going through an Ancient Greek literature phase of having done the Odyssey for a second time, the Iliad and currently half way through the Aeneid. One of the things that is standing out for me in the Aeneid, as in the Iliad, is the ...

... Anthony, Tacitus' Agricola and the Germania, New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age by Edwards, and probably Homer's Odyssey as well. Taking four classes for summer semester (six weeks) with each one basically requiring a book every two weeks. Hopefully I can get through without my brain ...

21. Odyssey - Homer 22. Jingo - Terry Pratchett 23. The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett 24. Night Watch - Terry Pratchett

In the past 8 months I have read both the Odyssey and the Iliad and found them absolutely magnificent. Can you suggest for me any other specific ancient Greek literature titles that I might find equally engrossing? I know of none at the moment. I have heard of the dramatists but don't ...

... hated in high school that wasn't so bad ten years later? I didn't like Lord of the Flies but I probably never will, The Odyssey was okay but weird, and I doubt I'll like Romeo and Juliet. I like To Kill a Mockingbird. 14. What is the strangest item you've ever found in a book? ...

... kien Pages: 320 8. Lorwyn by Scott McGough Pages: 320 9. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Pages: 320 10. The Odyssey by Homer Pages: 560 11. The Stone War by Madeleine E. Robins Pages: 352 12. The Elves of Cintra by Terry Brooks Pages: 464 13. Cell b ...

... in terms of form. Two works could not be more un-alike in terms of content than (say) A Light in the Attic and the Odyssey; but we classify both as POETRY because they share certain broad formal qualities. Trying to assign a topic to such works would be ridiculous. We recognize this, so ...

... of my books have been around! 13. Any "required reading" you hated in high school that wasn't so bad ten years later? The Odyssey 14. What is the strangest item you've ever found in a book? A pamphlet of the Greek Orthodox Catechism. It was in Greek. 15. Used or brand new? A couple ...

... Fitzgerald Moby Dick by Herman Melville War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Jane Eyre A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf The Odyssey by Homer Paradise Lost by Milton

... Karinina, but I have been working on my TBR listing and am going to include Tolstoy's War and Peace. Homers The Odyssey and The Iliad and Dostroyevsy's Crime and Punishment and Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Those are my personal challenges this year and I am more ...

... Karinina, but I have been working on my TBR listing and am going to include Tolstoy's War and Peace. Homers The Odyssey and The Iliad and Dostroyevsy's Crime and Punishment and Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Those are my personal challenges this year and I am ...

... laiborne Prince of Tides The Talented Mr. Ripley Brideshead Revisited Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Odyssey Rebecca Lost Horizon Tales of South Pacific There are more but I can't think of all of them right now.

... be found in his work as well. His emphasis on studying the cultural objects of an era is magnificent. I just read the Odyssey of Homer treating it like a primary resource in my reading and it was magnificent. Also, his observation that it is 'the terrible simplifiers' of today that ...

... and can only shake my head over the fact that Cold Comfort Farm came in ahead of The Iliad, and most amazing of all, The Odyssey didn't even make the cut!

More class prep reading: The Odyssey by Homer (selections) The Oresteia by Aeschylus This week we're discussing the various homecomings of Greek heroes after the Trojan War. Odysseus, famously, takes 10 years to get home, experiencing many adventures along the way (including a ...

... Hear that, Mr. Abnett? ;) Reading the Rock-Drill cantos. Funny how the Cantos started as a modern retelling of the Odyssey with some Swinburne-ish verbal flourishes. Now it's like reading House of Leaves -- Pound has since abandoned the right-to-left reading method and now he's all ...

#140 bib: I read The Odyssey first not knowing. It was a month before I took my first mythology class. How odd about your stats! (why did I say stats?) the will you like it feature!

... a hundred pages left, so I'll finish it when I get home from work tonight, no problem! It's kinda making me want to reread The Odyssey but to do that I'd have to read The Iliad first (does it surprise anyone that I can't read a series out of order?) and since I own those I'll have to wait ...

... benefit), The Outline of History volumes 1 and 2 by H.G. Wells, The Audacity of Hope (again, more for the humans), The Odyssey and Complete Works of William Shakespeare (both nonfiction if the aliens listen to Dewey). Have fun with those, sucker!

... benefit), The Outline of History volumes 1 and 2 by H.G. Wells, The Audacity of Hope (again, more for the humans), The Odyssey and Complete Works of William Shakespeare (both nonfiction if the aliens listen to Dewey). Have fun with those, sucker!

... I thought it was a great start to a classic work that I was completely unfamiliar with. I'm currently reading Fagles' Odyssey and then I want to read Aeneid (haven't decided if I'll go with Fagles or some one else's translation for that). That said, I intend to read Pope, Lattimore, Lo ...

I like the "wine-dark sea" of Homer. An outbreak of c. difficile would be terrible, but I sure do like to say that word in Italian: dee-fee-chee-lay. That and stazione ferroviaria, the ridiculously beautiful term for 'train station'.

... You might want to consider reading The Penelopiad, especially if you like books by/about women. It is Atwood's version of The Odyssey, told from Penelope's point of view (and that of the hanged maids). It's wonderful. Let's see... The Blind Assassin is also really good. I also liked Oryx ...

The Robert Fagles translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey are really good. I also like the Stanley Lombardo ones, but they're more liberal and more controversial.

... arts, economics. I once got an A on an essay comparing the level of modern consciousness in The Iliad to that of The Odyssey. These were Homer's take on the flowering of modern consciousness, among other things. This is a rather lame attempt at describing what took Jaynes an entire ...

... man's estate. As IF! I also preferred Clueless over Emma. And I ALMOST preferred Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou over The Odyssey.

... to reread Paradise Lost, since I read it in high school and don't remember anything. The same thing for the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid, which I also read in high school. Those I need to revisit to appreciate them.

... Joyce's Ulysses -- Stuart Gilbert James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses -- Frank Budgen King James Bible The Odyssey - Homer Re Joyce - Anthony Burgess Ulysses (optional text: Gabler ed.) Ulysses (optional text: audio cd) Ulysses (corrected, 1961 text) Hu ...

... all changes when a little known classicist, E. V. Rieu, presents Penguin founder Allen Lane with the translation of Homer's Odyssey that he has been working on and reading to his wife Nelly in his spare time....

... as The Penelopiad goes, I think you'll be ok with the wait and will probably appreciate it a lot more after you've read The Odyssey anyway.

... unfortunately my local library does not have that one, so I am going to have to wait a bit on it. I am planning on reading The Odyssey some time this year, but I have a lot of books on my 'must read' list already, and I want to get some of them cleared off first. Thanks for the ...

... Robber Bride and The Blind Assassin. Also, I see that you just read The Iliad; are you planning on reading / have read The Odyssey, too? If so, I'll recommend Atwood's The Penelopiad, which I read last year and loved. It's a short, nifty little book retelling The Odyssey from the POV of ...

... Copperfield by Dickens, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Middlemarch by George Eliot, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Odyssey by Homer, The old Testament by "God et. al", Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, War and Peace by Tolstoy, and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. This ...

... particular order: The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba the Greek by the same The Illiad The Odyssey The three-plays comprising The Orestia (utterly awesome) Lysistrata by Aristophanes or anything by Aristophanes for that matter I'll need to check my ...

... out tons I decided I should read, so I'd like to get through those. Oh, and the proper classics like The Iliad and The Odyssey. #23 katylit, is that the BBC Little Dorrit? If so, it was fantastic and all should watch. I've never read the book but the miniseries felt very Dickensia ...

... Pride and Prejudice grew on me. Currently reading The Great Gatsby and it's... meh... okay, I guess. Also, The Odyssey which I'm liking more than I thought I would.

#54: I am currently reading The Iliad and am definitely interested in mythology - planning to get to The Odyssey some time this year too, so I will add The Penelopiad to my new Atwood list. Thanks for the recommendation, Linda.

... and Clancy writes political thrillers. I'm a big fan of classics, so may I recommend The Little Prince, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, or any other classic. Do you like nonfiction? Do you have any interests such as sports, nutrition, politics, etc. that I (or any HE member) ...

... poem) Myrrha Venus & Adonis Atalanta & Hippomenes The Homeric Hymn to Demeter The Bacchae by Euripides The Odyssey Book 11 The Aeneid Book 6

I don't eat nachos. It's nacho fault. I did finish Arrow's Flight yesterday. Today I'll read more of The Odyssey and The Great Gatsby.

... but obviously the more we prepare, the more we'll probably enjoy the journey. Other important texts for preparation: The Odyssey, The Divine Comedy, Shakespeare and who knows what all else Joyce alludes to!

#135: I have the Lattimore translation, so I will see how that goes. I will probably read The Odyssey after I finish up The Iliad. I freely admit that I am more familiar with the storyline of The Odyssey than that of the other, which is why I started with The Iliad first.

#134 - I loved The Iliad so much I named my golden retriever after Hector! Out of the two, I preferred it over The Odyssey, but that's just me, I think most people prefer the other, but I loved the story of the Trojan War.

... down a bit and loses the beauty of language/style variety). I use Ovid's Metamorphoses in verse translation and Homer's Odyssey in verse translation in addition to the recommended anthology because I want students to get a sense of something a little closer to the traditional form of the ...

... books. Onto classics, Little Women is one of my favorites that you haven't listed or cataloged. I don't see The Odyssey cataloged either, though I think you've read it if you have The Penelopiad. A Separate Peace was a very good book which I read in high school. I haven't ...

... remember what my class read in school. The Bible as Literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Antigone, Julius Caeser, The Odyssey, The House on Mango Street, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Catcher in the Rye, Flatland, Candide, or, Optimism, Henry V, The Stranger, The T ...

... one! It *is* a beautiful passage. #18: AWilkins: I agree with dk - Lombardo is the best translation for The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid that's out there right now. I had the chance to see (hear) him give a couple of readings from his Iliad and Aeneid translations, and he's ...

#5 Interesting comment about the The Odyssey and Beowulf. I quite liked the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf, but it is too "polite". I can image it being recited by himself at a poetry festival, but not by a wandering bard in a mead-hall. It doesn't have the pace I'd expect. A ...

Coyote post from a trolling non snob Best Lit:The Odyssey Best SF: The Gate to Women's Country or The Stand or Diamond Age (loved them all) Best Love Story: A Prayer for Owen Meany Best Western: Lonesome Dove Best YA: Book Theif Best Nonfic ...

... I've already taken my Apuleius off the shelf and stuck it in my 'currently reading' pile (I've already read The Iliad and The Odyssey, although I will be reading selections from both of them again this semester for the mythology course I'm teaching). I've read bits and pieces of The Golden As ...

... description/review for that I can use for the Comment field, you get another chance. Example: You read and post about The Odyssey by Homer and A Wizard of Earthsea by Le Guin and post descriptions for both, you'd get three chances. I thought about and discarded giving a chance for ...

... and Through the Looking Glass by Carroll The entire Harry Potter series by some chick I'm currently reading: The Odyssey by Homer The entire Earthsea series by Le Guin (currently on Tehanu) Next up: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Baum The Princess Bride by Goldman The ...

... *Insert silly remark* *Insert bit of trivia* *Insert silly remark* "Would you believe? I'm also slowly working on The Odyssey. It's not as bad as I feared. In fact, I'm enjoying more than I did Beowulf.

... on Priscilla Hutchins ("Hutch"), an interstellar pilot. The books are The Engines of God, Deepsix, Chindi, Omega, Odyssey, and Cauldron. This is a very good series.

... is both tedious and difficult to follow, in parts. I launched my study of ancient Greece by reading The Iliad & The Odyssey & Herodotus & Thucydides in that order. Now that I have learned more about the period I may re-read some or all of these But you can't beat the basics!

Some more suggestions from Norway (I think I've suggested them once or twice before): The Iliad by Homer or The Odyssey by Homer (reread for me). Ulysses by James Joyce. I think a group read of this novel will be the only way for me to manage more than some few pages of it. (We ...

... the Robert Fagles translation of THE ILIAD? That's my favorite, by far. Very readable--beautiful, in fact. Ditto his ODYSSEY...

... and grownups's sections. So, when I was in about the third grade and asked the librarian about either the Iliad or The Odyssey and she said with a genuine look of confusion "I don't think we have any children's books by that title..." It became a sort of family legend good for a ...

... unctional. Cold Mountain was indeed painfully boring. If you must read an "on-the-road-home-after-the-war" story, read The Odyssey instead. Again.

... event was in one of the best American novels of all time. Huckleberry Finn was a hilarious and beautifully written Odyssey. Then ol' Tom Sawyer has to show up and do all these stupid antics. It really threw off the whole novel, for me.

... now. I get "There are too few copies to analyze whether you will like it." for every book I try, including Homer's Odyssey and Shakespeare's The Tempest

... little with little. Malone Dies is like a combination of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the underworld sections of The Odyssey, and Chaplinesque slapstick.

... ophy natch - see extra category at bottom - I'll still reach 81 7. Drama & Poetry 1. Hamlet by Shakespeare - done 2. The Odyssey by Homer - done 3. The Aeneid by Virgil - done 4. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 5. Paradise Lost by John Milton 6. The Divine Comedy by Da ...

Groo: That sounds like a v. cool book - onto the TRB list is goes! Morphy: Don't be scared! It's such a myth that The Odyssey is difficult to read or understand - it's *so* much fun. Don't let Telemachus put you off too much at the beginning. He's sort of a whiny wimp, but once you get to O ...

... non-fiction. Thanks. Here are the books I've decided to read so far: The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand Iliad - Homer Odyssey - Homer Beyond Good and Evil - Freidrich Nietzsche Dune - Frank Herbert Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon Imagining the Tenth Dimension - Rob Bryanton ...

I was under the impression that the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey was known as Homer in the English-speaking world. Just curious why he is listed as Homère on the author page here.

I'm staring at The Odyssey and it's staring right back at me. Eventually we'll get to the dating stage and I'll get brave enough to crack it open.

... myself a huge fantasy fan but I admit I have not read these books yet!! I also want to read Le Morte d'Arthur and The Odyssey. I have a bunch of romance novels I have not yet read as well which will be tossed in when I need a break from the heavy reading I have set myself up for. I ...

36. The Odyssey by Homer I finally finished this book. I had started it in October but somehow I misplaced it in a laundry basket. Go figure. This was the Penguin Classics translated by E.V. Rieu and I enjoyed it more then I thought I would. All those stories and movies just didn't do the ...

... Cleopatra-William Shakeseare Love's Labour's Lost-William Shakespeare Mill on the Floss-George Eliot Odyssey-Homer

... in pre-1900 literature, at least at this point in his life. There are exceptions: Fagles' translations of THE ILIAD and ODYSSEY and that fat Edith Grossman translation of DON QUIXOTE always seems to lurk near the top of the to-be-read pile. Not, therefore, a true snob, but a thoroughly ...

... the Quake, Brideshead Revisited, Casino Royale, Sons and Lovers, "Brokeback Mountain", Amadeus, O Pioneers!, The Odyssey, Day

... my favorite verse translations of both works, surpassing in readability and poetry the Lattimore Iliad and the Fitzgerald Odyssey which had been my previous favorites. I thus would say they are reader's editions more than bibliophile's editions. If you like the style of leather binding and ...

The Odyssey by Homer 11/21/08 The Razors Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 11/23/08 The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac 11/23/08 The Reivers by William Faulkner 11/25/08 **** Book 300 **** Enduring Love by Ian McEwan 11/25/08

Well, I must say you've inspired me. I will try theOdyssey again one day. I'm happy to live my life without the Iliad though. Thanks for your thoughtful and encouraging comments.

Yeah, I was wondering about the Homer too. I had to read excerpts of the Iliad and the Odyssey for my class, and it was just gibberish to me. So I tried to take the time to read them in their entirety, thinking something would make sense. Just couldn't do it. The Iliad was just testosterone ...

... growing up near a surf beach. Cloudstreet may be on my list for this month. Apropros of Polutropus, I have just finished The Odyssey myself and found it compelling!

I have finished a slow month of reading finally polishing off Homer's The Odyssey which was a terrific read. Today in one gulp I finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which was thoroughly charming but at times heart-aching. Hard to do well, but I liked it a lot. Pleased to ...

... Mortimer Light relief. 125. Nation, Terry Pratchett More entertaining reading from a favourite author. 126. The Odyssey, Homer, trans. R. Fagles Fabulous drama as Odysseus struggles to return home to Penelope twenty years after leaving for the Trojan war.

Talbin, I'd also like to read Vanity Fair and Dr. Zhivago. I've read The Odyssey but would be up for a reread...

Here's what I wrote on the last "what should we read next" thread: I like Ivanhoe, The Odyssey, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Dr. Zhivago. A few from past votes that I wouldn't mind revisiting are Wives and Daughters, Vanity Fair, and The Count of Monte Cristo. Having already read ...

Here's what I wrote on the last "what should we read next" thread - it still stands: I like Ivanhoe, The Odyssey, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Dr. Zhivago. A few from past votes that I wouldn't mind revisiting are Wives and Daughters, Vanity Fair, and The Count of Monte Cristo. ...

I would like to raed Don Quixote or The Odyssey

I'm reading Greek Drama this week. Will be finished with The Odyssey today.

I'm reading The Odyssey this week.

Other than a goofy, very weak, ending I thought Huckleberry Finn was better than "the original", ie, The Odyssey. But I have to agree with Kabrahamson about Twain's shorter works. His essays, and his short stories especially, are a scream.

... school librarians do?} told me I had read all the SF in the library and to quit looking in that section. A lady handed me The Odyssey and the Iliad & told me those were Sf also. I read them & others {over a period of a few weeks maybe} and noticed it took some time to make the story flow ...

SF: Book of the New Sun, Left Hand of Darkness,The Stars My Destination Fantasy: The Odyssey, {Lord of the Rings, The Worm Ouroboros Lit: Huck Finn, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Romance: The Lions of al-Rassan Humor: A Confederacy of Dunces, Freddy and Fredericka humor ...

... domain in 1952, many of which are substandard. You can find a fantastic new (and free) translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey on the web at http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/homer/iliad_title.htm (in 24 separate "books"); or http://www.richerresourcespublications.com/E-Books/Iliad/The_%2 ...

I just got The Odyssey narrated by Susan Sarandon and Stanley Lombardo and it is GREAT! I originally purchased it in prep for tackling Ulysses, but I'm enjoying it so much, I might continue on with their rendition of The Iliad instead.

... have read A Canticle for Leibowitz, but I think the closest we got to SF (and I contend it's not all that far off) was The Odyssey.

... literatures; Classical Greek o 881 Classical Greek poetry o 882 Classical Greek drama 883 Odyssey by Homer o 884 Classical Greek lyric poetry o 885 Classical Greek speeches o 886 Classical Greek letters o 887 Classical ...

The Penelopiad is on my wishlist - looks like a reread of The Odyssey is on the cards too.

... I'm currently taking a course titled: "Mythology in Context; Women in Greek Mythology," and have just read excerpts from The Odyssey, and I thought this would be an interesting companion read. It turned out not just to be interesting, but also fun and entertaining. It's written in a very ...

... up: The World Without Us, Alan Weisman Kiss the Joy as it Flies, Sheree Fitch and from their discount section: the Odyssey, Homer Beyond the Coral Sea, Michael Moran Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson Kingdom Coming, Michelle Goldberg Koba the Dread, Martin Amis A ...

... by Dante Alghieri 17. Paradise Lost by John Milton 18. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer 19. The Odyssy by Homer 20. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexande Dumas

... having read this short novella. Two Years before the Mast Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea The Sea around Us The Odyssey I don't want to read the Life of Pi, so don't tell me I need to read it. The same goes for The Shipping News. I've made several abortive attempts and it's ...

#74 whisper - I've always loved The Iliad and The Odyssey so when I heard about this book I really wanted to read it. I'll have to look for that painting you mentioned - off to Google it.

... I've heard pretty lukewarm reviews about it here at LT, but I'm currently studying women in Greek mythology and reading The Odyssey and the Iliad, so I thought this would act as an interesting compliment. The others are all non-fiction, and I bought them all because they just looked ...

Aeneid Odyssey Lusiads Gulliver's Travels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Jungle Book Divine Comedy Pilgrim's Progress Wind in the Willows Wonderful Wizard of Oz

#70 - The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, I really liked it! Dry wit and a satirical look at The Odyssey from Penelope's view - Helen (as usual) stole the show! Very short novella, I read it in less than a few hours. 4/5 ktleyed in What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the Week of 13 September 2008 (Sep 14, 2008, 12:01pm)

I just finished The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, I really liked it! Dry wit and a satirical look at The Odyssey from Penelope's view - Helen (as usual) stole the show!

Well, I wasn't going to buy any books in September, but I did! I got: The Odyssey by Homer Edith Wharton: Selected Poems by, you guessed it, Edith Wharton Liebling: World War Two Writings by A. J. Liebling The Complete Maus by Art Spiegleman Shadow & Claw: The First Half of the Book ...

... coming, so something meaty would be good...Don Quixote or Moby Dick, but I'd also be glad to re-read The Iliad, The Odyssey, or Dead Souls. Not quite at interested in Kristin Lavransdatter, but would certainly give it a shot if that's the way things go.

... Prince, while interesting, doesn't seem long enough to sustain a group read. That's just me, though. I like Ivanhoe, The Odyssey, Tess and Dr. Zhivago. A few from past votes that I wouldn't mind revisiting are Wives and Daughters, Vanity Fair, and The Count of Monte Cristo.

... and also I have never read Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. In addition I would be interested in The Iliad by Homer or The Odyssey by Homer.

How about The Prince? It's not too long. I like Don Quixote and The Iliad/Odyssey too.

... thirty pages from the end (... maybe twenty!). Other than that, the only other classics I've read to date are Tess and The Odyssey... for which I loved the Fagles translation.

I suggest we read an ancient classic this time: The Iliad by Homer or The Odyssey by Homer. I read 'The Odyssey' some years ago, so I'll prefer 'The Iliad'.

Gilgamesh The Odyssey The Old Testament The Bhagavad Gita The Tale of Genji Don Quixote The complete works of Shakespeare Candide Great Expectations War and Peace Be sure to check out numerous other discussions of lists at LT Groups such as "Books on Books" and "LT's Lis ...

... I don't like abridged versions of books a quirk of mine that I can live with. Jacobi also does a narrated version of The Odyssey that is not abridged. This time reading The Iliad I was attracted to the cultural and historical items that are mentioned in the book. The methods of prayer ...

... s A Tale of Two Cities The Three Musketeers The Scarlet Pimpernel Scaramouche The Virginian Little Women The Odyssey

... peare The Man in the Iron Mask The Bible Peter Pan Tale of Two Cities Dracula Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus The Odyssey Don Quixote

In no particular order: Les Miserables The Black Tulip Northanger Abbey The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Odyssey Great Expectations The Histories Macbeth (do plays count?) Madame Bovary Moll Flanders Compiling this, I realize just how few of the classic ...

... particular I did not enjoy the poems of the maidens...they seemed stretched and cutesy ... kind of contrived. If you loved The Odyssey you might want to visit the site jwwaterhouse.com. Waterhouse was a Victorian artist who painted during what is known as the Pre-Raphaelite period. He ...

... in my opinion. It was witty in a few places but seemed quite mundane otherwise. Take into consideration that I loved The Odyssey and just found this boring. I also don't like politically correct fairy tales if that helps understand where my bias may lie.

... confusing :( I'm sure my library has room for two versions. After all, I keep three versions of Beowulf, and four of The Odyssey!

... her poetry. But then many of the different versions of Helen's story are interesting. I love the section in Homer's Odyssey where Penelope in referencing Helen says, " . . . . I armed myself long ago against the frauds of men, imposters who might come - and all those many whose ...

For any incoming President I would give them a copy of The Odyssey. All about the kinds of pitfalls one will face as President, from the Sirens (BushCo's downfall) to Polyphemous, using intelligence when war is all there is, to Scylla and Charybdis, navigating dangerous shoals without being ...

I was thinking more like Beowulf or The Odyssey or Gilgamesh or maybe the Book of Revelation in The Bible. There are some cool critters in all of these.

Although I love poetry, I get bogged down in narrative verse. Is there a decent prose version of The Odyssey you would recommend?

I just finished reading The Odyssey again. I have several translations and read it about every two to three years. It is truly a great book and I get something different from it every time I read it. I will read The Iliad again soon. I often read them back to back. The Iliad is more ...

I generally don't reread books, but I've made exceptions for The Odyssey, The Iliad, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Beowulf. I have not reread a disliked book.

... I read Russian lit like others mentioned (I loved trying to pronounce the names!) Then I did some classic Greek. Loved The Odyssey but had trouble getting through The Iliad.

... Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 7. The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope 8. The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer Extra Credit: Literary Debris {complete} 1. Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner *** 2. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole ** ...

... whole Bible some time as it is one of the main literary (and religious, of course) works in western culture. I DID read The Odyssey some years ago, but I haven't read The Iliad yet. And I've got The Koran, but I've never been in the mood for reading it.

No. 32 The Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles 560 pages (12,898 total pages). The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of my top five favorite books. I first read an abridged addition of each when I was about 12. I now have at least six translations of each book and read them every two to three ...

... for no advantage. I'm not looking forward to reading that part. Right now I am reading the Robert Fagles translation of The Odyssey. I read The Odyssey and The Iliad every two to three years. I enjoy them every time. I have the second Library of America Philip Dick volume on the way ...

... lost at Sea Typhoon Kon-Tiki Wide Sargasso Sea The Sailor who fell out of Grace from the Sea The Tempest The Odyssey Moby Dick The Shipping News The open boat shipwrecked mutiny on the bounty

... for The Scarlet Letter are completely broken, with random suggestions for everything from The Color Purple to The Odyssey and Little Women. Not recommendations -- suggested combinations. This is a disaster waiting to happen.

... Dracula vs the single volume bundle of Frankenstein, Dracula and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Also think The Iliad and The Odyssey vs the bundle The Iliad and the Odyssey (notice how tochstones work out). The second feature concerns multiple authors. The bibliographic data for multiple ...

... them in their cars to hear the rest. They are usually a mix of thought-provoking, poignant and humorous. We also love The Odyssey -- there's a fantastic audio version by Odds Bodkin done in a genuine storytelling style: unscripted, and accompanied by instruments he plays himself. It can ...

... someone asks what I read. I have probably read 2 fiction books in the last couple of years and they were The Iliad and The Odyssey. Not exactly Stephen King or James Patterson, but it was fiction. I suppose I am the same as those who posted before me. I have an unquenchable ...

... the first time was 9 or 10 years ago. The last time I read it, I interspersed its chapters with those of The Odyssey.

... to rescue Grover from the hands of the cyclops Polyphemus and to save the tree, and thus, the camp. The story follows the Odyssey fairly closely (the visit to Circe's island was a favorite of mine). Just like the first book of the series, this is a great, fun, and easy read for anyone ...

... school know they're never going to pray to Zeus but they can discuss The Iliad and appreciate allusions in other works to The Odyssey or St. Augustine, and I believe they need to be able to do this to be fully literate and be able to make the best use of their future educations (based on the ...

... a traveling vacation, I tend to read books related to the place I'm going, or to what I'm doing. (For instance, I read The Odyssey on a sailing trip, and John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice on a trip there.) If I'm just hanging out at home, I'll just read whatever's there ...

... My question regards anthologies that contain multiple novels. In one sense, I do own Fitzgerald's translation of The Odyssey. In fact, I own several copies that appear in different world literature anthologies I have taught. I realize that it would be absurd to consider the ...

... in the Snow and Other Ozark Folk Tales was a great book - are the following: The Epic of Gilgamesh The Illiad The Odyssey The Analects The Oresteia The Oedipus Trilogy The Art of War The Bhagavad Ghita The Aeneid The Pillow Book Beowulf The Rubaiyat The Di ...

... current Deptford Trilogy. Also Fagles translation of The Aeneid in the same design as his current translations of The Odyssey and The Illiad

karenmarie, I agree 100% with regards to Cold Mountain. If anyone has the urge to read that blather, pick up The Odyssey instead, or better yet, rent the movie "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?".

... all three of the 800+ page books without anything in between. Looks like a summer in the 1860's for me. My class on The Odyssey has three more meetings.

... works are themselves a bit of retellings: Ovid's Metamorphoses and Hesiod's Theogony, as well as the Illiad, Odyssey and Aeneid, are all summaries of mythologies or stories incorporating mythologies. But, in all cases, there are many other sources as well.

... afterwards that the list is 110, but it was too late. Also, I believe the Telegraph's list combines The Iliad and The Odyssey into one volume in the detail, but count them as two in the summary to 110. Also, I did a more detailed comparison to include books in anthologies, ...

... Southern. Don't have an opinion, yet. Half way through another reading of Robert Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey for a class. As an aside, I tried to watch the 1954 movie Ulysses with Kirk Douglas. I loved it as a kid but I only made it about ten minutes this time around. ...

... makes me think that I should re-read the Aeneid sometime soon. I may also start re-reading either the Iliad or the Odyssey this week, inspired by my recent reading of Alberto Manguel's book about Homer and the reception of the Iliad and Odyssey in the 28 or so centuries since the poems ...

An interesting hypothetical that does take some thought. Here goes The Iliad The Odyssey War and Peace The Civil War a Narrative three volumes Robert Frost Poems, Plays, Prose The Encyclopedia of World History Complete Works of William Shakespeare Hammett Complete Novels ...

... Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Earthsea Cycle The Odyssey The Princess Bride The Wonderful Wizard of Oz His Dark Materials Dracula Peter Pan Dragonriders of Pern trilogy The Arabian Nights The Ill ...

I'm revisiting this old thread not so much because of the recent brouhaha about imitation versus real leather bindings on The Odyssey, but because I just acquired a pristine copy of the Limited Editions Club's The Golden Ass from 1932. Unlike my other copy, mentioned in post #7 of this thread, ...

Re #22: Unless my memory is faulty (very likely) The Odyssey was not one of the books in the Prospectus but was announced in a flyer (perhaps as a Castaway's Choice?). I will try to dig out my Prospectus for that year and check. The Folio 60 seems very exhaustive in its documentation. If ...

Re #22: Unless my memory is faulty (very likely) The Odyssey was not one of the books in the Prospectus but was announced in a flyer (perhaps as a Castaway's Choice?). I will try to didg out my Prospectus for that year and check. The Folio 60 seems very exhaustive in its documentation. If ...

... and Other Japanese Fairy Tales Tales from the Arabian Nights Lots of folk and fairy tales from all over the world The Odyssey in a dumbed down prose version for children Tales from the Niebelung French fairy tales by Perrault and others Deidre of the Sorrows - Irish Gudrun' ...

... edition of The Histories of Herodotus and that this was "artificial leather" quarter binding. My Iliad and my first FS Odyssey had a leather-like binding and the colophon simply stated "quarter leather." The Iliad is fine to this day, but the Odyssey felt tacky when I received it, ...

... is the case with Homeric epics: in fact it isn't even real leather, but an imitation leather. It is nice except for the Odyssey's tackiness and dye transfer problem, but I like my cloth replacement Odyssey just fine and it seems otherwise identical.

... by Lewis Carroll Beowulf by A. Nonnie Mouse The Wonderful World of Oz by L. Frank Baum Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie The Odyssey by Homer A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs Please pick JUST ONE! Th ...

... Adventures in Wonderland by Carroll Beowulf The Wonderful World of Oz by Baum Peter Pan by Barrie The Odyssey by Homer A Midsummer's Night Dream by Shakespeare The Fairie Queen by Spencer I haven't read any of them.

That would be Dionysus. The person below me prefers The Odyssey to The Iliad.

... #24: You get rid of the stickiness by getting rid of the book. Unfortunately, the quarter-leather (imitation leather) Odyssey seems to have been plagued with tackiness (pun intended), and the only thing I think you can do is to exchange it for the quarter buckram version.

... as someone suggested, with 25 points for first, 24 for second and so on, we will all have to go back and order them. Odyssey Iliad Grimm’s Fairy Tales The Complete Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales Old Testament The Good Soldier Svejk (Hasek) Pride and Prejudice ...

... by Dostoyevsky Mysteries by Knut Hamsun Great expectations by Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Odessey by Homer etc. etc. etc. etc. :-))

... I have recently listened to two courses from the Teaching Company, one about Homer's Iliad and the other about The Odyssey. Hugely enlightening as well as entertaining. Last week, for something lighter, I listened to Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson which I enjoyed ...

... have read over the last year. I'm currently working on: Aenid, the Fagles translation Iliad, the Fagles translation Odyssey, the Fagles translation rich

... the way we will be in Jackson, MS., Vicksburg and New Orleans. Taking along The Race Beat by Gene Roberts, Homer's Odyssey translated by Robert Fitzgerald for a Humanities class at the Seattle Language Academy. (I'm going to miss two classes) And finally, The World of Odysseus by ...

... personally love Paradise Lost by John Milton, but the language can be a bit difficult. Then there is The Iliad and The Odyssey, both of which can be found in very accessible translations.

... am having trouble putting it in order, other than roughly chronological order: 1. Gilgamesh 2. The Illiad 3. The Odyssey 4. The Histories 5. The Old Testament 6. The Bhagavad Gita 7. The Tale of Genji 8. Don Quixote 9. Candide 10. Tom Jones 11. Pride ...

... pages of any of her works without going numb from boredom. My daughter has been on a rampage lately about having to read The Odyssey. She loves the story but hates the poetic format. Ditto The Iliad. Honors English is just getting started on Animal Farm - can't wait to see what she ...

... is with Walker Percy. The page says ten books, yet on his profile page it says only eight. He owned three editions of The Odyssey, apparently.

I seem to share The Iliad and The Odyssey with a lot. MrA I actually share 5 books with Alfred Deakin. It says he is from your neck of the woods :)

... of the classics Robert Fagles died March 26 at the age of 74. He is best known for his versions of The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid.

Okay, the book count to date, including my list: 1) Pride and Prejudice - 4 lists 2) The odyssey - 4 lists 3) To kill a mockingbird - 3 lists 4) His dark materials - 3 lists 5) Alice in wonderland 6) The poisonwood bible - 3 lists 7) The diary of Anne Frank 3 lists 8) The I ...

Start with some Epics: Mahabharata Gilgamesh Odyssey Then some major poetic anthologies: Manyoshu Shi Jing Greek Anthology Mu'allaqat Then some religious texts: The Vedas The Bible The Avesta All written before the Shahnama or Tale of Genji, works ...

My top 25 (limiting myself to literary works): Gilgamesh Odyssey (Homer) Antigone (Sophocles) Genesis Gospel according to John Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 1001 Nights Shahnameh (Firdowsi) Don Quixote (Cervantes) Faustus (Marlowe) Fables (La Fontaine) Disserta ...

I think these are mostly on my Top 25 list already, but here goes: The Bible The Epic of Gilgamesh The Iliad The Odyssey Le Petit Prince The Oresteia Sophocles' Theban Plays The Republic The Arabian Nights The Communist Manifesto

It is, of course, impossible to limit it to ten, but, in no particular order: The Iliad and The Odyssey must top the list. The Bible, of course, and the Qu'ran. The first novel - Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, and the poetry of Matsuo Basho. Dante's Divine Comedy. ...

... Old English 15) A Distant Mirror Barbara Tuchman 16) Riverside Shakespeare 17) Riverside Chaucer 18) Iliad and Odyssey -- packaged together 19) By the Light of My Father's Smile Alice Walker 20) The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien 21) A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines ...

... I had initially tried to avoid repeat authors, but I've found that I just can't deal with having His Dark Materials above The Odyssey. So, I'm replacing the former with the latter. Sorry for the inconvenience!

52. Homecoming, Bernhard Schlink, 2008 Bernhard Schlink uses Homer's Odyssey as a vehicle to explore Peter Debauer's quest to discover an author with an intellectual approach to moral responsibility that doesn't sit well with his own ideas on justice. (****).

... of Narnia 7. Lord of the Rings 8. Pride and Prejudice 9. His Dark Materials 10. Le Petit Prince 11. The Odyssey 12. The Theban Plays 13. Romeo and Juliet 14. Anna Karenina 15, War and Peace 16. A Wrinkle in Time 17. Macbeth 18. The Aeneid 19. The Rep ...

... Myths Project recently where contemporary authors rewrote myths from literature. Margaret Atwood chose Homer's The Odyssey and wrote from Penelope's perspective in The Penelopiad. Ali Smith rewrote the myth of Iphis from The Metamorphoses in Girl Meets Boy. Hi Trace ...

... between the different versions of the Bible were not far removed from comparing different translations of Homer's The Odyssey. The word choices may be different in places, but it's still the same text, from the same source, and with the same essential meaning.

... Poetry 1. Faust FINISHED 2. Aeneid FINISHED 3. Paradise Lost 4. Divine Comedy 5. MacBeth 6. Gilgamesh 7. Odyssey 8. Iliad 1001 books you must read before you die 1. Birdsong FINISHED 2. Disgrace FINISHED 3. The black dahlia FINISHED 4. The virgin suicides 5. ...

... s 869 – Saraminda: Black Desire in a Field of Gold 873 – The Fables of Avianus 882 - Oedipus Tyrannus 883 – The Odyssey 884 - Sappho: A Garland The Poems and Fragments of Sappho 888 – Five Great Dialogues 891 – The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 895 – Hard-Boiled Wonder ...

... more sense. Not very much blood and just a little spooky in parts, so I'd consider it suitable for children. Similar to The Odyssey, but much shorter.

... and Prejudice Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Tolkien Fellowship of the Ring Homer The Odyssey Tolkien The Two Towers Tolkien The Return of the King Gaiman American Gods Gaiman Good Omens Mary Shelley Frankenstein Of which I've ...

Storytellers have used poetry since the beginning of language to tell their stories. From GILGAMESH to THE ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY and THE AENEID, from BEOWULF and THE SONG OF ROLAND to Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES and Shakespeare's VENUS AND ADONIS -- from Milton's PARADISE LOST to T ...

... enough that without clues as to what he is talking about, you can't tell what he is talking about. So I started reading The Odyssey last night instead, but I'll get back to A Secular Age from time to time. Robert

Have you noted some similarities between the last part of The Odyssey and Jesus teachings in The Bible. Ulises lives himself among his servants, rescuing their humanity (just as Jesus does), and how Zeus at very last end of the book says that people should make peace and love each other. This ...

... ;) sussabmax: I mis-typed; I meant to say a "feminine spin." Sorry for all of the confusion! I'll have to read the Odyssey now, because I'm not familiar with Homer's original story. I'm with you about Atkinson - I read One Good Turn first and loved it; I then picked up Case Histo ...

... as possible. So far I've read the first 3 volumes, and I'm nearly halfway through the fourth. 1. Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey 2. Aeschylus, The Oresteia 3. Herodotus, The Histories 4. Plato, Meno 5. Plato, Gorgias 6. Sophocles, Antigone 7. Plutarch, Greek Lives 8. Pla ...

... I am really interested in those passages. I have not read The Iliad, but now I will. Like many folk, I have only read The Odyssey. Thanks for the inspiration.

I wonder if he was delibertly named Homer after works like The Odyssey and The Iliad, in which case, I suppose it's supposed to be funny. Here's my seemingly impossible question: If I tried to write you (mandythebookworm) to welcome you to be the 816th poster on the 800 members thread and ...

Ok, I just can't get over this. Why no Illiad or Odyssey? Just because the novel hadn't been invented yet I have no idea why early classical literature is so poorly represented.

... Dickens The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Odyssey by Homer And because I need another brick sized novel like I need a hole in my head (drumroll please...): War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy!!!

... for The Penelopiad. I love Margaret Atwood in general but I thought this was a really interesting take on the story of The Odyssey and I love the structure and ideas she put into it...like the greek chorus which is interspersed through the book similar to the ones you see in Ancient Greek ...

... more to do with the historical fiction in my library - and also, perhaps, because I also have The Aeneid, The Iliad and The Odyssey. With Black Ships, I imagine that people who like historical fiction would enjoy it more than someone who reads a lot of non-fiction about the classical ...

... an d Hurt (or my own edition, unpublished, of course). Last Sat., I finished flying through the Iliad and the Odyssey both the Robert Fitzgerald editions, which I do like a lot! Now I can go back to my translating the Old Saxon Heliand from the James Cathey ...

I've actually read these things many times over: The Odyssey, Rebecca (I re-read it every October.), To Kill A Mocking Bird, Wuthering Heights and Passing.

Would adding a Common Knowledge field alter the statistics of how many people own the same work? The Iliad and the Odyssey in relation to the joint volumes The Iliad and The Odyssey are a good example. Would recommendations work as expected?

... confused about the arbitrary selections. The "novels" Aesop's Fables and Walden are in there, but no Illiad no Odyssey, no Gilgamesh.

... y The Penelopiad by Margaret Attwood Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a verse translation by Simon Armitage The Odyssey, the Fitzgerald translation Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Claire Morrell Anna Karenina in the new translation We Need to Talk about Kevin and ...

... (nice hardback, also for cheap. And I'm reading it already and it's great, so it was *obviously a sensible purchase...) The Odyssey, because I'd been thinking about getting it and obviously have to read it before The Penelopiad Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall because ...

... and The Tale of Sinuhe). If they're not, I'll probably get to the Bookstore and get new copies of the Iliad and Odyssey, and read them... My current copies were used for class. AKA, they're gratuitously filled with doodles of cyclopes and stick people

... sics Dracula by Bram Stoker Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift The Divine Comedy by Dante The Illiad/The Odyssey? Some of Poe's work of course. Do we put The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Fantasy? when it was written it would have been Sci-Fi.

My top 10 among books not yet mentioned: The Odyssey by Homer The Golden Ass by Apuleius The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum By Night Under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz The Children of Llyr by Evangeline Walton The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka The Broken ...

For The Odyssey, I highly recommend Robert Fitzgerald's translation. I found it very readable. I believe he's also done The Iliad, but I can't speak for its quality.

Epics: 1. the Aeneid 2. Paradiso 3. the Iliad 4. the Odyssey 5. Paradise Lost 6. Beowulf I think these are sufficiently difficult to not require the full 8 books.

... I think runs to about 5 pages or so of text) and some classic Poe stories are in. And where the hell are the Iliad and the Odyssey? How many books that did make it in are not inspired by those two books? Anyway, I see it as a chance to find books that I never knew about, so I won't ...

Mine, like so many others--is 100. On the top of my list: The Story of a Soul, The Iliad and The Odyssey, all books by Charles Dickens (you would think that would be one author the touchstones would pick up...ugh), as many encyclicals as I can get my hands on, the History of Middle-earth ...

... Robinson's edition of the original text, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon with stunning illustrations, and The Iliad and The Odyssey in the seemingly definitive Fagles translations. Of recent books, although I cited as a "disappointment" The Towers of Trebizond, in a similar vein, the Soc ...

A few more for the library: Ulysses The Odyssey As for contemporary authors, one that comes to mind, though it's a bit of a gamble, would be The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti since his short fiction draws Borges, as well as Poe and Kafka. (And Lovecraft, who Borges considered ...

I think that zette's observation of Odyssey having characteristics of fan fiction is excellent. As a bona fide "common person" though, I don't think human nature has changed, at least not since about 14,000 B.C. The veneer of modernity covers this up. Thus the essential continuity of "the great ...

If you don't mind me interloping (loping in?), I think zette's conception of The Odyssey as fan fiction is a terrific one, a very amusing thought. Of course, it got me thinking that this is also true of practically all the great Greek tragedies, yes? So perhaps we shouldn't think of The Iliad ...

Do you have a preference in which translation to read? I have The Iliad and The Odyssey translated by Lattimore in the Great Books Of The Western World edition 1990 and also translated by Robert Fitzgerald.

Well, if Penelope's not old enough in the Odyssey, she certainly is in Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad.

... seconding the Stone Angel and suggesting that May Sarton not be forgotten, I'd also hearken back to Penelope in the Odyssey. Or is she not yet old enough?

... me whitewash Aunt Polly's fence, but I figgered if ya want a job done right, ya gotta do it yourself." The Illiad and The Odyssey ;) Ulysses - "Penelope, the boys and I are off on a short adventure, and will be back in no time!"

... ago, but I remember having to read To Kill a Mockingbird, Things Fall Apart, The Pearl,and pieces of The Iliad and The Odyssey, plus a lot of short fiction like The Rocking Horse Winner. I actually remember the Jr high list better : The Red Badge of Courage, The Red pony, Flowers ...

... in 12th grade now, here's what we've read in chronological order, (mostly anyway): Julius Caesar The Oedipus Cycle The Odyssey Lord of the Flies The Canterbury Tales The Decameron (parts of) Jane Eyre Walden (parts of) Secret Life of Bees Lovely Bones The Curious I ...

... Campbell ). Traditional epics usually come from oral transmission and are later written (Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, Beowulf, The Song of Roland, etc.). Literary epics are consciously composed, often emulating the traditional epics to ...

... I wanted to have a full feel of an individual piece, instead of taking smaller bites. We'll see how I do. I have started The Odyssey, but other things have started taking far too much of my time, and I probably won't get back to it until December. I'm finding it fascinating, though.

... the vocabulary or develop more concentration. I've been required to read abridged editions of books before, I believe The Odyssey was one, and all I could think about while reading it was "What parts did they leave out? What am I missing?" I loved Wishbone as a kid and I still think ...

I've read the reviews of The Odyssey and see that a lot of them praise the translation, but without saying whose translation they are talking about. I expect reviews of other translated works are similar.

... Classical Greek: Oedipus 882--Classical Greek drama: The Oresteia 883--Classical Greek epic poetry & fiction: The Odyssey 888--Classical Greek miscellaneous writings: Protagoras and Meno 891--East Indo-European & Celtic: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting The ...

... reread. Some old favorites like Starship Troopers I read when I want a quick, familiar story. I reread The Iliad and The Odyssey about once every two years. It does help that new translations keep coming out. Sometimes I will just reread a section of a book such as the Battle of New Orle ...

... especially when my wife discovers my error. I have read CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien more than once. I finally discovered Homer not too long ago, but found that I could only have someone else read it to me, i.e. books on tape. I just recently saw a new paperback edition of The Dark is Rising ...

... were amazing political and religious commentaries (in sort of opposite ways), and I will never stop advocating for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, which has it all: social commentary on race and justice in the US, a coming of age tale, Atticus Finch (the biggest ruler ever), and a ...

... - A Long Walk to Freedom (review) - Nelson Mandela Sudan - The Translator (review) - Leila Aboulela Zimbabwe - Don't Let's go to the Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller ...

... rereading. I only remember that we did not read The Golden Bowl; that was a grown up pleasure. I have what I call my Ulysses project, which entails reading about twenty books including rereading Ulysses and The Odyssey. Robert

... than epic adventure. And don't start Indian epics with the Mahabharata -- it's 10 times longer than the Iliad and Odyssey combined -- start with the Ramayana -- full of good dharma and lots of adventure. And finally, I have to make my plug for Derek Walcott's Omeros -- ...

... is the great Persian epic, which for the Persian, Turkic and Arabic worlds holds a status comparable to the Iliad or Ulysses. Shikibu wrote the Tale of Genji, arguably the first novel and a masterwork of medieval Japan. Her stories are the most illustrated work in Japanese art.

... that I will be teaching freshman come Monday. I will be teaching mythology (haven't seen it in about 25 years) and The Odyssey (last read 15 years ago). I went to the used bookstore hoping to find something useful. As always, Cliffs Notes on Mythology fits the bill, as well as Greek ...

... What poetry predates narrative by thousands of years? The earliest poems I know of are narratives: The Iliad and The Odyssey. I'd also say that epopee in general leads me to consider the "life narrative" much more than "the ecstatic." Long poems about journeys with picaresque ...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Iliad The Odyssey The Hobbit Wyeth At Kuerners The Longest Day Beowulf The Ancestor's Tale The Demon-Haunted World Naked

... first that came to mind. It's not Katherine Anne Porter's best, but it is Katherine Anne Porter. But how about the Odyssey for early inter-continental travel? Or the Icelandic Sagas? And it's not all plants, trains and boats - there is a long balloon ride in Around the World in 80 Da ...

... on the to be read list. The Bhagavad Gita was truly moving, and very different from other Epics. Greece: The Odyssey and Iliad; both college reads for me that i'd like to reread sometime soon. Italy: The Aeneid, a long time ago, reading the Aeneid WAS Latin III - I didn't ...

... something a little different on the read around the world theme, and this is one that is a little subset of my own global Odyssey. This thread is devoted to reading Epic's from around the world (poetic or prosaic, ancient or modern). We've been reading a lot of epics over the last couple of ...

My folks let me name one of the family cats when I was in high school. Having just read the Odyssey I decided to name her Penelope. The name fit reasonably well -- that kitty was very pretty, well behaved, and tolerant. And she often managed to find clever ways to get what she wanted.

... favourite author, but the book is right up there on my top... twenty, at least. Homer: The Iliad makes the top three, The Odyssey isn't on the list at all. I guess what's frustrating to me, is that I feel like the 'favourite author' feature connotes that I indiscriminately enjoy all ...

... of the same epic saga with a consistent fan base. When it comes to to combining translations, I say lump 'em all. The Odyssey is the Odyssey is the Odyssey whether it is in English, scrawled across a parchment in Homer's own writing, or an actual sound recording of Ancient Greeks ...

I loved Fagle's translations of Homer, particularly The Odyssey and am currently reading his translations of Sophocles, which I must admit I'm finding heavier going. May I recommend Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf? Again it's a bilingual one with translation and text facing ...

... historical order, say after Descartes. As for Homer, I'd concentrate on The Iliad, six seminars, reduce the number of Odyssey seminars down to one or two, and cut into Plato's Republic down to four: book 1, 2-4, 5-7, 8-10.

... epic storylines and longer time periods." Dune (without any sequels) is epic and it's right around 500 pages. Homer's The Odyssey is the definition of epic and my translation has 365 pages. Longer books tend to be epic in nature, but you don't need length to allow these types of stories. ...

... Mayor of Casterbridge, although it might be worth going over again now that I'm older. And if I ever, EVER have to read The Odyssey again, I will shoot someone. I mean, yes, great, classic literature, a must-read... but I think I've had to read it five or so times throughout middle school, ...

I am reading Homer's The Odyssey which has been on my TBR pile for about five years. I finally broke down and am 3/4 way through. Really helps to understand literary reference in other reading - so glad I am persisting with it. Started to enjoy it about half way.

... new hardcover copy of Fagles' translation of The Aeneid. Can't wait to start on that, as I loved his translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad.

... read of My Cousin, Rachel for a book talk this coming Thursday evening. Also on the nightstand, Fagle's translation of The Odyssey, An Ocean of Air, Sin in the Second City, and Jo Walton's Farthing

... Before Troy. The Story Of The Iliad The Wanderings of Odysseus The History of the Peloponnesian War The Iliad The Odyssey The Aeneid Satyricon Handbook of Epictetus The Inferno Fiction Little Women - READ IT Black Dahlia -READ IT The eye of the storm For ...

... the right sidebar of the Combine Works page), I'm going to have to disagree with you on the first line of Homer's The Odyssey. Not that it's not memorable; just what it actually is. I submit the following: ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μου̂σα, πολύτροπ ...

... editions of the Great Books of the Western World appear with each volume/work having the same ISBN. So, the Great Books The Odyssey will have the same ISBN as the Great Books Dante's Inferno. This really screws up the suggestions list, and puts these works in great danger - most likely ...

... It is one of the driest, dullest books I've ever had the misfortune of reading from start to finish. The Iliad and The Odyssey - oh, how I loathe them! I am obsessed with history, archaeology, and mythology yet these stories failed to capture my imagination. Boring, repetitive (I know, I ...

The Odyssey has been combined with part I of Don Quixote.

... by John Updike The God of Impertinence about Mercury by Sten Nadolny The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds The Odyssey by Homer Elements of Garden Design by Joe Eck

I've been reading The Odyssey by Homer since i bought...probably 2 months. Note to self: go through book before paying. No one told me it was poetry! I do poetry but in little snippets. But there's good news - I borrowed No More Sheets by Juanita Bynum from a friend last Wednesday, ...

I've been reading The Odyssey by Homer since i bought...probably 2 months. Note to self: go through book before paying. No one told me it was poetry! I do poetry but in little snippets. But there's good news - I borrowed No More Sheets by Juanita Bynum from a friend last wednesday, ...

I've been reading The Odyssey by Homer since i bought...probably 2 months. Note to self: go through book before paying. No one told me it was poetry! I do poetry but in little snippets. But there's good news - I borrowed No More Sheets by Juanita Bynum from a friend last wed nesday, ...

... of the Earth by Jules Verne Expedition to Earth by Arthur C Clarke Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan The Odyssey by Homer

The Odyssey, by Homer Best Nightmare on Earth: a Life in Haiti, by Herbert Gold Honolulu : Sketches of Life in the Hawaiian Islands from 1828 to 1861, by Laura Fish Judd Noa Noa : the Tahitian Journal, by Paul Gauguin The Discoveries in Crete and Their Bearing on ...

I had to read The Odyssey for school and I hated it until the last chapter when it finally picked up the pace and didn't take 2 pages to say something that could be said in a paragraph. I also hated Great Expectations by Charles Dickens that was also extremely long winded, I know he was ...

... or don't, but find interesting. I just looked up the Iliad, and there are 5,256 books owned by LT members, while the Odyssey has 6,591 (books with both of them reposit in 435 libraries. So, we might infer that people prefer a travel story to a war story, to be a little flip. Or we might ...

... fate of the protagonist is determined by his character. For example, the hubris of Oedipus leads to his tragic fate. The Odyssey is a great story. Odysseus blinds the son of Poseidon on his return from the Trojan war and his journey home becomes the original epic adventure. The ...

Just a head's up... I'm separating Homer's Odyssey: A Companion to the Translation of Richmond Lattimore from The Odyssey because, as best I've been able to ascertain, this is a companion to a translation under separate cover. If anyone has information to the contrary, please post info hear ...

... contending, the wanderer, harried for years on end, after he plundered the stronghold on the proud height of Troy." -- The Odyssey by Homer "Taran wanted to make a sword; but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes." -- The Book of Three by L ...

Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer the Odyssey by Homer the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri the Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian Voyage of the Damned

I bought the '90s FS editions of The Odyssey and the Metamorphoses used, and discovered something strange about their quarter-leather bindings: the leather is sticky to the touch, and leaves spots of colour on the fingers, as well as inside the slipcase. My other volumes from this series, the A ...

... I didn't mind Plato's Republic or most of the other philosophy books. I liked some of the older classics from history: Odessy and Aenid for example. Those weren't too bad.

... classical literature, I also think they should read current books. I really enjoyed a lot of the classical in school, The Odyssey was good, Romeo and Juliet was good because we spent weeks reading it out loud and discussing it. I do think that teaching kids to enjoy reading is more ...

... life easier would be the ability to check multiple books for uncombining. So if someone combines The Iliad and The Odyssey, you'd only have to check a slew of boxes and hit "separate" once.

... didn't like, I've had no desire to go back and try again. The only exception I can think of is that I really didn't like The Odyssey when I had to read it in 9th grade, but then I had to read it again in 10th (switched schools), and got a different translation which made all the difference.

... on. As for "this led to this," save that for college. I probably would have been more interested in The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aenid if they had been presented together, rather than piecemeal between high school and college. Hell, it's like early continuity, and I love ...

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many devices, driven far astray after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. The Odyssey Mr Gum was a fierce old man with a red beard and two bloodshot eyes that stared out at you like an octopus curled up in a bad cave. You're a bad man, Mr Gum! by An ...

Best is pretty subjective, but I find Richmond Lattimore's translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey to be quite good. Edit: Good if I could spell the guy's name right.

For me, it all depends on what type of mood I'm in. However, I do like... Epic poems (ala The Iliad and The Odyssey, and modern re-tellings, such as Iliad) Mystery (I prefer more of a historical theme, but if the main character is good, I'll read it.) Thrillers (My ...

... 14. * * * I'd feel less of a philistine if I knew something about the classical world: The Iliad by Homer The Odyssey by Homer The Classical World by Robin Lane Fox A one volume history of Greece and Rome, hopefully not too heavy. LibraryThing didn't want to link to it. ...

My numbers today are: #1 The Odyssey (3757 users) #100 The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (348 users) # 310 (=~10% of 3101) The World As Will and Representation (98 users) # 1550 (=~ 50%) Conservatism from John Adams to Churchill (7 users) # 2791 (=~ 90 ...

... (201p) 14. Esio Trot; Roald Dahl (57p) 15. The Beach house; James Patterson & Peter De Jong (372p) 16. The Lake House; James Patterson (311p) February 13 books, 4616 pages 17. This Alien Shore; C. S. Friedman (565p) 18. Reign in Hell; William Diehl ...

These are my reading goals for 2007: in chronological order: The Iliad by Homer, Fagles (currently reading) The Odyssey by Homer Fagles Old Testament KJV Job, Genesis Greek Lyrics by Lattimore Agamemnon by Aeschylus Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Histories by Herodotus Medea by E ...

The Odyssey of Homer, the Robert Fagles translation

I'm reading The Iliad for my book club. Almost done....I think I'll plow right ahead and take on The Odyssey immediately thereafter. These books have been taunting me for years. It's actually very accessible, not a hard read. But it is quite repetitive, and looonnnng.

... and every question on the Mid term had to do with it in some way. Nevermind the fact that we'd also read Macbeth and the The Odyssey by that point in the year. I took one look at that mid term and knew I was going to do poorly on it. Of course none of the questions about the book on the ...

... blanket book for years. Wuthering Heights has to be at the top, followed by Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, The Odyssey, The Tempest, Medea, The Stand, Nineteen Eighty Four, anything by James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler, Wodehouse and Philip Pullman. There ...

... read in a critical edition of the original and liberal arts students more generally read in translation. For instance, The Odyssey. Classicists might have the translation, too, and that's the case where we might as you say let them down. But it should be a small fraction of their library. ...

I often have issues with translations. My first experience with this was with Homer's Odyssey. I love the Fitzgerald translation because it keeps it in poetry, while others turn it into prose and I think steal the entire power of the piece. However, I have also see how sometimes even ...

... about Cold Mountain. I found it very slow going. Overall, I prefer O Brother Where Art Thou as an American version of The Odyssey. As far as other historical novels, I enjoyed Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue and The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory, though I understand that Gr ...

Am I the only one who actually prefers The Odyssey to The Iliad?

(Re #4 marfita): Read The Iliad a few months ago and found some of the long battle scenes a little tedious. Then read The Odyssey and not only enjoyed it much more but suspect it is referenced more often. Am at present reading The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood and the pleasure is increased ...

Man, I've had to read the Odyssey three times for class. Once in ninth grade, again in tenth grade (switched school districts), and then again in Intro to Greek Mythology in college. On the other hand, no one ever forced me through the Iliad, and I can't seem to get through it on my own, so ...

... To Kill a Mockingbird myself. I wish my son's school would require what your daughter has read. He's read excerpts from The Odyssey, but that's about it. I thought of another book he had to read, Stranger With My Face. I never read it because it just didn't sound interesting to me at ...

My daughter is a Freshman in high school. So far I believe she's read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Odyssey and Oedipus Rex.

... 2, and 3 shouldn't be combined together, since they're not the same work, not in the sense that various translations of the Odyssey can be thought of as being the same work. Yet the main series title is what the Library of Congress thinks of this as, as though each book is just a chapter in a ...

I am new to LibraryThing and I love seeing what others are currently reading. I am reading Odyssey by Jack McDevitt and Lisey's Story by Stephen King.

... and reading The Once and Future King. I'd also be interested in "being pushed" to read Beowulf, or The Iliad or The Odyssey. Anyone else want to go that far back?

Polyphemus, the cyclops who eats Odysseus' crew in The Odyssey. The description of how he devours the men, then drunkenly vomits afterwards is truly terrifying.

... Faulkner Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert (movie) Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway The Odyssey Homer The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Beloved Toni Morrison The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu Hamlet William Shakespeare (movie) & many others T ...

Ooh. I have spent the past year painstakingly reading The Odyssey in Greek. Now, my Greek is very very basic but I ploughed on so I could get a sense of repetition, rhyme, rhythm and 'style'. The Loeb two-volume edition's translation is literal, if archaic, which helped with the language / ...

... by Agatha Christie. And, since he was mentioned above, horray for Robert Fitzgerald! His translation of The Odyssey is my favourite.

Currently: listening to The Odyssey, reading Neil Gaiman's new Fragile Things, with detours into a biography of Edward II from time to time.

That sounds (no pun intended) a good choice LisaLynne: as you say The Odyssey was in the oral tradition. With a fine actor like Ian McKellan reading, I really must try & get it from the library.

... things that are much better on audio than on the page. For example, I picked up a simply marvelous unabridged version of The Odyssey, read by Ian McKellan. Absolutely brilliant! First, Sir Ian has an amazing voice and was a perfect choice for this work. Second, and even more important, ...

... a tidbit in the Observer Review (UK) today that said there is a scholar who has proposed that the author of the Iliad and Odyssey may have been a woman...