Review: The Odyssey is a story about a homicidal maniac (Odysseus) who refuses to ask for directions. This tragic flaw, shared by many men, leads his crew to disaster. Some are eaten by monsters, some are eaten by their crew-mates, and some finally get fed up with this cruise from hell (literally at one point), and take a flight home.
When Odysseus returns home, he is shocked, SHOCKED, to discover that after a 20-year absence, his wife is entertaining the possibility of remarrying.
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@markarayner I first read The Odyssey when I was ten. Best book ever.
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@Black_Flag I read it to my campers, who were 12, when I was their counselor. They LOVED it.
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@markarayner I recommend the translation of the brilliant Emily Wilson: https://www.emilyrcwilson.com/the-odyssey
Best translation ever! =D
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@DannDochLieberDieSpreu Next time I read it, I'll check her's out!
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@DannDochLieberDieSpreu @markarayner if we’re doing recommendations I love Natalie Haynes talking about it in general, but she also does the whole thing in 30mins: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001brj5?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
And the Penny Dreadfuls version is very funny: https://archive.org/details/the-penny-dreadfuls-present
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Sure, he gets back together with his wife and son, but for me the most moving moment in the whole Odyssey is when his old dog recognizes him and dies. Only because the dog is twenty do I give the Odyssey a pass on an animal death. Normally that's a deal breaker for me.
(Yes, this is how I judge all entertainment.)
https://www.doesthedogdie.com/
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@MaryAustinBooks I share this filter!
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@MaryAustinBooks @markarayner Haha, same!
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Some people during the last 2.5 k years understood differently: It is the story of a enterprising, intelligent and pious heroe, who is tried by various deities, not least by the charms of a half godess, Circe. He keeps loosing his crew members because of their frivolous acts, like stealing the sun god's cattle. So before reaching home he lost literally everything except his life. It finally is the godess Athene who restores him to his home and his still loving wife.
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@Ogequ567 I don't disagree with you, actually. I was just having a bit of fun. On the other hand, he was critical in enabling the Greeks do a genocide at Troy. Just saying.
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Also Odysseus was lucky in that he had great publicity with the latest technology - Homer perhaps was the first one to use letters for fiction, writing down epic "songs". It is always the winners who write history.
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omg SPOILERS 😦
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@markarayner 😀
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🥥 Did Mr Simpson write this classic work before or after he got his job at the nuclear power plant in Springfield? 🥥
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@jstatepost Quite a bit before -- but right after he was first rejected from the Stonecutters.
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🥥 Propz for the shoutout to the Stonecutters, Mark, precursors to the Masons. 🥥
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@jstatepost Yes. the Troy Chapter was quite active until Odysseus and his pals came along.
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@markarayner "... after a 20-year absence, his wife is entertaining the possibility of remarrying.".
This is Penelope slander. She didn't want no man; why else would she marry Odysseus, a man who is constantly absent
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@markarayner I just had an interaction with someone on here the other day how sad it is AI is eradicating the lovely art of library summaries on the inside of books. This should be the one.
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