#also it's interesting to me because i've read the aeneid... three times but always with a focus on the first half
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Hm... I do not have a good perspective on this, because I've only read an itty bitty bit of The Iliad and I am now about halfway through The Odyssey, but I think that Odysseus is a much more sympathetic character than Achilles.
#it's really interesting to me though because... like i imagine both were about equally sympathetic to the greeks? i'd imagine?#like it's interesting to me that it's probably just the cultural difference of. like. not a very “honor/glory in war” culture. i guess.#also it's interesting to me because i've read the aeneid... three times but always with a focus on the first half#so maybe odysseus is just more sympathetic to me because the first half of the aeneid is basically the odyssey#i still think of aeneas-at-the-end as somewhat sympathetic but it's because you see him devolve i guess? you see why he is like that#whereas. and again it may be because i haven't actually read very much of the iliad. i feel like achilles just starts off Like That#when i'm done with the odyssey i'll go back to the iliad and update my Takes on it.#i was supposed to read the whole iliad for class like for last week but i was so busy that i just. did not get to it.#i have to read the odyssey this weekend for class next week so. i figured it made more sense to read the Relevant Stuff rather than try to#catch up on both in one go. but i do hope to return to the iliad.#also god bless the emily wilson translations of these things. i don't know greek so ig i can't have an opinion but#the vibe i'm getting is that emily wilson translations are to greek epics what shadi bartsch translations are to roman ones#dante dicit#classics#aeneid#odyssey#iliad#oh also it's just SUPER interesting to see all the commonalities between the odyssey and aeneid. like “ohh so that's why there's a stag” et
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1. Aahh so many. Definitely Les Mis. I'd also say Anne of Green Gables/Avonlea. Hate to be one with the crowd but the Harry Potter series has gotta be in there too. I love the magic faraway tree too.
2. My taste is so varied so I wouldn't say one author in particular. Rick Riordan and JK Rowling wrote some pretty awesome stuff. Stephen Fry is also amazing as well with Troy and Heroes he writes it so well.
3. Can't think of one.
4. I love classical books and I'm not sure what to call it like relaxing cottage core type books like aogg and wind in the willows etc. Also fantasy novels gotta love em
5. Heroes of Olympus. I mean it would be epic if it was pulled off right but it's too risky, see what happened with the Percy Jackson movies.
6. Off the top of my head the land of stories series would look pretty cool as a movie.
7. Physical books all the way.
8. I hate this because I know I have lots but they have all escaped me.
9. Not just the cover but the illustrations throughout all of the Debbie books e.g debbie's visit to the countryside
10. I started reading the shining but I over thought it and couldn't lol. Also when I was younger there was this creepy bit of ruby red fort that i read when I was alone and it was dark outside and the door creaked open i freaked xD
11. Can't think. this is annoying
12. Les Mis made me feel empty inside. Tfios of course.
13. Idk
14. Andy Griffith's and Terry Denton's books are absolutely nuts but they did good lol.
15. The Aeneid lol it had to go back to the library. I will finish it eventually though I'm on pg 267. Took me a few goes to get through sense and sensibility as well.
16. I was three years old sitting in the hallway while the fam was packing to go on holiday it was one fish two fish red fish blue fish by Ronald Dahl.
17. Just finished reading Hamilton the revolution.
18. Before that i read troy by Stephen fry.
19. Nah not in ages.
20. Lol i cried in Hamilton the revolution when they talked about it's quiet uptown. The music was ringing in my ears it was too much.
21. Fred Weasley.
22. Occasionally. I found this beautiful wee book store in another town i wanna go back so badd.
23. Whatever book I'm reading at home.
24. All the time. I'm addicted to nonfiction atm.
25. Magic faraway tree. It's so nostalgic and pretty.
26. I love getting real stuck into series. Some standalones are so superior though.
27. First one that come into my head was Robinson Crusoe lol. It was really Boring.
28. Hardcoverssss.
29. I've just always done it. My whole life its so good. An escape.
30. The Buddhist on death row. It's a really fascinating nonfiction about the life of Jarvis masters. So interesting introduction to Buddhist beliefs and a man's fascinating story.
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