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Summary: Great translation of the Odyssey
Review: This was a great translation of The Odyssey. Having looked at a few other translations, the fact that this was the best appeared blatantly in my face.I suggest you read up a bit on Agamemnon before you read this.
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Summary: Amazon.com's listings for Homer get no stars!
Review: This is a review of your listings for "Homer": they are in excreble condition compared to your otherwise well-constructed listing/bibliographies. Someone at your organization really ought to review and thoroughly revise this category (Homer/Odyssey etc. Thanks. If there is another way to contact you with a point of view, please revise.
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Summary: Captivating, humanizing
Review: Put aside everything you are reading and read this Fagles translation---or buy the unabridged Odyssey on tape (available on Amazon.com)---if you want to experience language, song, story and wisdom in a way that feels miraculously humanizing.
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Summary: It's an adventure reading this book
Review: The plot of "The Odyssey" is very good- Odysseus, the hero, wants to come home for the first time in 20 years, while his son looks for him. Had this been written by a present-day author, this story would be better developed than what it was by Homer at the dawn of time. You never really get to feel good or bad about Odysseus' character, and the only one you do feel sorry for is Penelopia, his faithful wife who must choose to keep her promise and marry someone else, or stay faithfulto Odysseus. This is a good lesson in mythology, but not an easy read at all.
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Summary: A great Adventure book!
Review: The Odyssey of Homer is one of the best books I have ever read. It is a good book for Jr. High and High school to read. If you enjoy old history you will like this one. It starts off telling you about the battle of Troy. Ulysses is the main character in the story. He is the king of the Island of Ithica. In the first chapter it tells you about how Ulysses battles the monster named Cyclops. Then in the next chapter he battles the winds of Circe while on the sea. In the next chapter he has to sail by the singing of the Sirens. It talks about Ulysses being gone for twenty years and his son Telemachus went to look for his fathers whereabouts. It is a great adventure book and I recommend it to anyone who loves adventure books or old Greek literature
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Summary: Unreadable and incomprehensible
Review: I bought Fagles translation because I have always wanted to read what is one of the most important books in history, "The Odyssey" of Homer. The reviews all raved about how this was a translation which made Homer come alive for modern audiences. Poetry is usually so academic in its use of language. Most Poets are professors who do NOT use the English language the way most modern people do. Their use of language is wooden, stilted, with unfamiliar and odd turns of phrase, use of words, etc. which all end up bewildering the reader. I had hoped that the reviews would be right for once, however. No such luck. I couldn't even get past the first ten pages with any comprehension of what this was about. I reread lines half a dozen times with no idea of what Fagles was talking about. What the heck is "hearth smoke"? What person alive says "that nonsense coming past your teeth"? Don't most people say "past your lips"? If this is a "readable" translation, they must mean to someone who speaks some odd form of Olde English because this does not read like any English I ever saw. Don't get suckered into thinking this just "races" along. It does nothing of the sort. You will need to refer to the notes every few lines just to figure out what is being said. Why it is said so oddly and with such a poor sense of colloquial English and rhythmn is beyond me. Homer remains a mystery to me and this translation simply is not worth the effort. If it took me so long to try to get through the first few pages I cannot imagine the effort to get through close to 500 pages. I think I will try a prose version someday.
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Summary: The book had lots of action, drama, humor and excitement.
Review: First the book started out bouring and something that really didn't make the reader think that it was going to get better. But after the 1st book, the whole book itself started to get better. I think that the book told a lot by showing love, heart break, and compassoin.
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Summary: Excuse me, I'm going to be sick
Review: I pity all of those souls who have to endure reading this utter rubbish. Every time I attempt to read it, it puts my wee self to sleep. This book is so boring, and I can not fathom how people (even though if they are pretentious secondary school teachers or literature lecturers)can still find this enjoyable.
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Summary: a masterpiece
Review: This is probably my favorite book and has been since I read it in ninth grade. This book will keep you turning pages all night. The text is simple but beautiful at the same time. Hower's characterizations and metaphors are excellent and add depth to the story. I recommend this song to anyone interested in a surrealistic journey. It is a true masterpiece
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Summary: Robert Fagles' translation of Homers' Odyssey is magnificent
Review: This was an excellent book! Homer combines myth and reality to create a wonderful book! Robert Fagles' translation of the epic is magnificent. Possibly one of the best books ever written in the Ancient world. The Epic of Gilgamesh is also an Ancient book and relates somewhat to the adventures that Odysseus encounters.
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