3.5
The Odyssey
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THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME—SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
Whether fans of suspense, fantasy, or human drama, readers of all ages thrill to Homer’s epic tale of the legendary Odysseus on his decade-long journey, as he meets the lotus-eaters, cunningly flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the sexy Sirens, narrowly escapes Scylla and Charybdis, averts his eyes from Medusa, docks in distant cities—all the while struggling to make it home to his wife and son.
Adventure on the high seas, legendary romance, tests of endurance, betrayal, heroism—the saga of The Odyssey has all these and more, imagined by the most famous bard of all time.
Whether fans of suspense, fantasy, or human drama, readers of all ages thrill to Homer’s epic tale of the legendary Odysseus on his decade-long journey, as he meets the lotus-eaters, cunningly flees Cyclops, angers his gods, resists the sexy Sirens, narrowly escapes Scylla and Charybdis, averts his eyes from Medusa, docks in distant cities—all the while struggling to make it home to his wife and son.
Adventure on the high seas, legendary romance, tests of endurance, betrayal, heroism—the saga of The Odyssey has all these and more, imagined by the most famous bard of all time.
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3.5
“There's not much to say about one of the oldest translated books it's a good read but the translations and older prose is less enjoyable”
“Amazing how a 3000 year old story still resonates with us today. Homer never would have guessed Christopher Nolan would be making a movie out of this”
“Obviously due to the time it was written it has not aged great. There are tiles where it shines, but the majority of the time it feels its age.”
FlatLack of diversityMinor characters stand outOne-dimensionalUnengagingConfusingDisjointedEpic scopeSatisfying conclusionSlow start, strong finishAncientEnchantedEtherealEvocative imageryIdyllicImmersive world-buildingSetting fits the storySurrealUnique locationVivid descriptionsClunkyDescriptiveHard to followOriginalStraightforwardTakes getting used to
About Homer
Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer—the Iliad and the Odyssey —are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.
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