Sept 2015
Homer is complete.
I read this along with Ulysses the two went nicely together. Like chardonnay and chicken. Ulysses was for obvious reasons a lot harder to read. I had to get the cliffs notes for it and I listened to the audio book over and over. But the Odyssey and Ulysses were finished at the same time.
The Illiad was such a waste of time. Pages and pages of families names and who was the son of who at this battle that now everyone has to read about Agammon, and Tetravon, and Velcoron, or whoever was in the fucking trojan war. On and on for pages and pages you hear about the people who fought in this war.
And no mention of the great Trojan horse! What a horrible let down. In Housewives of NJ if they show you the snip its of the fight you eventually get to see it. The whole reason the war was won was from the Trojan horse and you never get to hear about it. Never, you never hear the story. There are 4 small lines that mention that it happened in the past tense but that's it. I had to read about 12 pages of people's names and family members who were in the damn war but the reason the war was won no Homer doesn't think to actually talk about that.
As far as the Odyssey. What else could I say that hasn't already been said. If you read the actual tale from Homer you get some extra details like the bone crunching and the bones sticking out of his mouth when the Cyclopes eats Odysseus's men. He drowns the bones with wine. The movie in the 90's with Armando glosses over that.
These are the actual books that I tried to sell three times before reading them.
