• Maw
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    The Odyssey by Homer
  • Hanover
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    You inspired me, so I ordered a copy too. I see there's a 2017 translation by Emily Wilson they say is all the rage.
  • frank
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    Eric Cline says the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the book of Exodus are probably memories from the same time period.
  • Jamal
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    I suppose that when it comes to this sort of literature, you need to calibrate your expectations and approach it with a bit of an anthropological spirit in order to appreciate it.SophistiCat

    Certainly, but expectation-calibration can only do so much to mitigate intense displeasure. (And I secretly suspect there is literature written around the same time (and long before) which doesn't suffer from the same faults or has a more lasting power.)

    I liked her sister's signature work a lot more, for all that it is more than a little unhingedSophistiCat

    Still haven't read Wuthering Heights. It does sound more promising.

    ---

    Right now, some Russian holiday reading:

    Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin.
  • Hanover
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    Eric Cline says the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the book of Exodus are probably memories from the same time periodfrank

    Does Odysseus cross paths with Moses as they both try to fnd their way home? Wait, don't tell me and spoil it.

    This got me thinking about Jung and his claims of the consistent themes in myths cross culturally.
  • an-salad
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    Star maker by Olaf stapledon
  • frank
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    Does Odysseus cross paths with Moses as they both try to fnd their way home? Wait, don't tell me and spoil it.Hanover

    The big expert on Homeric Greece was named Moses Finley (his real last name was Finkelstein.) The World of Odysseus
  • an-salad
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    Does anyone have any sci fi recommendations? I’m open to anything
  • Jamal
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    • Ubik, Philip K. Dick
    • A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
    • Trouble on Triton, by Samuel R. Delany
    • Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban
    • The Doomed City, Strugatsky Brothers
    • The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
    • The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
    • The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
  • an-salad
    46


    I’ve heard of clockwork orange and the Time Machine but none of the others. Thanks
  • Jamal
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    :up:

    I should point out that these ones are idiosyncratic choices:

    • Trouble on Triton, by Samuel R. Delany
    • Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban
    • The Doomed City, Strugatsky Brothers

    (Roadside Picnic or Hard to be a God would be the normally recommended Strugatsky novels)
  • Ansiktsburk
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    Sapolsky Behave
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