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Summary: The Odyssey " A Great-Story "
Review: The Odyssey is a great story because it leaves you good universal values, for instance the love for your family, whatever you want to do you can do it, the good relationship between your comrades and you, it also teaches you how to face death threats while achieving your goals, and others. The Odyssey has suspense, love. The suspense starts when Odysseus tries to escape from the problems that Poseidon and Athena give to him. Also, it will interesting you because is an epic and also its a mythology book. And if you are interesting in Greek gods, goddess, or nymphs, read this wonderful book. Its better that you read it now because some day it will help you in your life and in school especially in high school, college or in university. Since I recommend this great book to you.COMENT: I really like this book.
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Summary: "a spectacular book"
Review: This book is very interesant because in this story opic i learned many fellings,the love of Odisseus to his wife, the perseverance and the enthusiasm to see his family.
I like too all aventures that they live, and problems that they have, but Odysseus,can beat all troubles,with this story i lerned the valor of the love, and i was living this aventures when i read this book. If you have the oportunity of read this book, do it! Este libro es muy interesante porque en esta historia de dioses he aprendido el valor de muchos sentimientos, uno de esos sentimientos es el que mostro Odisseus, el amor a su esposa, y como el apesar de tener muchos problemas y obstaculos que vencer el siguio adelante, por su familia.
En este libro se vive lo que se lee porque es una historia que tiene muchas aventuras, las cuales hacen que uno se transporte hacia ese lugar, de manera que es divertido e interesante leer este libro, en lo personal, yo lo recomiendo! El Odyssey es una historia que nos ensena muchas cosas, pero asi como es interesante, es divertida.
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Summary: The Great Oddysey
Review: This book was very cool because you can learn a lot from it and I also recommended it because is one of the most important books, and a story with a lot of imagination, adventure, and ideas of the real world so I would really like you to read it and learn about the ideas that people had in the past, and then try to recommended to another people and see how the characters, the setting, plot and the theme this book has are fantastic. This book is one of the most adventurous and mythological epic stories.
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Summary: THE GREAT ODYSSEY
Review: The odyssey book it was very interesting to me.The story takes in alot of places in the story.The author describe very well the characters in the story. I will recomended the story to all the people because is a very coll story to read it.
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Summary: Yes...
Review: The odyssey is good at foretold. Its well worth the effort. This translation was decent. It read a bit slow at times. But it as well worth it to read the legendary work for myself.
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Summary: An awesome classic with an equally awesome translation
Review: This book tells the timeless story of Odysseus and his struggle to get home and reclaim his kindgom. It gives the modern reader an interesting glimpse into the culture of Ancient Greeks (including their views on hospitality, love, war, the gods, and more!). It also shows how the power of love can truly conquer all and how faithfulness pays off in the end.
Fagle does a bang-up job of making this translation accurate and yet interesting and understandable to today's reader.
I would recommend this book to anyone!
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Summary: I say take the plunge
Review: I was fascinated by this transalation based on the review in the New Yok Times Book Review when it first came out in 1999. It also won book of the year award, I think. Then I read the Reader from Boston's very well written and credible knock. Then Robert Moore's rave. What to do? I bought the book anyway. I love this adventure and in fact have several translation of it, some in prose and not poetry form. You just can go wrong with Homer.
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Summary: It's easy to zone out while reading this book.
Review: This poem is hard to follow because of the language and the vocabulary, and reading it can be somewhat of a chore. Sentences may have to be read over a few times before they are fully absorbed. Many of the words are difficult, and a few of the character's names, as well as the names of places, are similar to one another, which makes it confusing. The story is fast paced and does not stay focused on one event for too long. It does, however, explain the events in great detail, with plenty of sensory imagery, making it easy to form a mental picture of the action.
The general plot is rather repetitive. Odysseus overcomes a challenge on an island, and while leaving via boat, a storm takes him to yet another island, where the process is repeated. This makes the story predictable and less interesting. It is even a bit disappointing, because while one usually expects a hero to be happy, helpful, and maybe funny, Odysseus possesses none of these traits. He is stubborn, selfish, overly confident, and serious. Also, before the tales of Odysseus' travels even begin, the reader finds out that he was gone for ten years, and is now safely retelling his story to others. This and the fact that early in the story, a man tells Odysseus of a prophecy detailing exactly what will happen to him, spoils the ending, so there is little to look forward to.
This work would be more enjoyable for people with an extensive knowledge of Greek mythology, or for people who like poetry. It is doubtful that many people college age and younger would take an interest in this story, and it is certainly not something to read for fun.
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Summary: Powerful original adventure
Review: So much literature has stemmed from this very Ancient poem-turned-novel and it is easy to see why. Western culture is soaked in these original myths, heroes, women, Gods. The imagery of the Odyssey is in our common language, in our everyday "odysseys" to get back home after work, surrounded by modern equivalents of the sirens (bars), driving between Scylla and Charybdis (thiefs, police, beggars). Some people indeed follow the Penelope policy, unraveling by night what they thread by day. This myth is within the marrow of our culture but it is not a heavy, ponderous philosophy of a book (little Ancient literature is, although for strange reasons people are afraid to approach it. Many modern novels are much more insufferable adn pedantic than Ancient tales). Deep down, "The Odyssey" is simply a great tale, an outrageous adventure in the Mediterranean. The storyline is well-known: after figthing in the long Trojan war, Odysseus (Ulysses) starts his trip back home, in the company of his men. The trip will in fact last ten years of dangerous and often tragic adventures. At the beginning of the tale, we are introduced to Odyseeus's house in Ithaca, from where he has been missing for 20 years, and where his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus anxiously (but increasingly disheartened) await his return. The house is full of men who want to convince Penelope that Odysseus is most likely dead and will never return, so she has to choose a new husband. The situation is getting to be unmanageable, and so Telemachus decides to go visit some of his father's old friends and see if he can get any news. Meanwhile, Odysseus is set free from the island of the nymph Calypso and starts his final voyage home. And when he gets there, the unscrupulous men courting his wife will see what insulting a Greek hero is like... The tale is so much fun the reader tends to overlook a striking fact: it is structured like a modern novel, even in a cinematographic technique: it starts where the hero is not, proceeds to the almost-end of his journey, then goes back in a long -and fascinating- flashback where all the famous parts happen (the loto-eaters, the Cyclop,the Lestragons, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, the cows of the Sun), and then finally it proceeds to the arrival of Odysseus to Ithaca, and his final revenge. As a sequel to the Illiad, it is very different, both in content and in style. The Gods intervene less here than in the Illiad (except for Arthemise, always looking after the hero). Homer's skills in depicting islands, people, houses and the sea are simply impressive, and the action proceeds always quickly. It is almost a thriller, full of beautiful images and prose. Don't you ever think of this as a "classic": it's just a wonderful tale, one that has inspired all sorts of artists for 2,700 or so years now. It has endured because it is very good. It's fun and it's beautiful (but of course it's very violent -it's Greek). One of the best stories any guy (whoever he was and whether it was one or many involved) has ever come up with. There's little out there more worth your time and attention.
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Summary: Pretty good so far
Review: I have only read to page 9, but it seems ok to me so far.
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