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Book Review: An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn

Book 165 of 2018: An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn I think this would be a great book for a certain type of reader, but I unfortunately can’t count myself in that class. Part family memoir and part literary analysis, the story broadly tracks the relationship of a classics …

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Book Review: The Odyssey by Homer

Book #202 of 2017: The Odyssey by Homer I liked this story a lot better than The Iliad, in part because it maintained a tight focus on a small number of characters rather than bouncing around among a sprawling Greek host. I also preferred the larger-than-life nature of Odysseus’s adventures to the endless battle scenes …

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