I actually finished reading this awhile ago but just haven't gotten around to commenting about the last fourth yet. I liked it all a lot and some of the ending chapters were the best. Though, the last chapter was a surprise. I might be a bit different from many in that once I'm going to read something, I try to tune out learning anything about what happens in it until it's over. So I wasn't prepared for it to end so abruptly!
Of course, by chapter 22 or 23 I'm starting to wonder how they're going to fit so much into these last few chapters, and by the 24th I came to realise it will "end in the middle".
I may have more to say on it another time. Once I finished the actual text, I jumped over to something else I'm trying to finish, but I plan to read the prologue (which I skipped) and the notes to the Iliad sometime soon, as well as a companion book that I'm going to order for a little more context.
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
I think a discussion of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight would be excellent. To discuss both at once and compare. There is a LibriVox recording of Beowulf, but not the Seamus Heaney translation: LibriVox Beowulf
There are online versions of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, original and modern English, available here: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Just from a quick search. So if enough people were interested at some point . . . 
So is The Iliad read finished? Is the The Odyssey still next? It's become very quiet here. |
I think you may have read the other thread, but for others in this thread who may not have, a few weeks ago issybird had half-jokingly suggested in another thread relating to this thread maybe having a quad-annual reading group for this year for long or difficult classics/epics, with the Iliad as the first pick. I think she'd mentioned as possible picks for the rest of the year, in order: the Odyssey, the Aeneid and Ulysses. Hamlet, I also like your suggestions. Though, it does make sense to do the Odyssey next if we're continuing to another work.
I'm interested in continuing onto another work if you guys are!