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Posts: 9903 · Posted: October 22, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject: Odessey

ok we are reading it in school
and like im such a geek that i dont even need to read it bc i already know whats happened and i havent even read it!
im a geek!

any of you read it?
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the odessey and the illiad are my two favorite books besides the harry potter series. They really are legendary stories. i just wish i had the time to read them again. right now im try to read hp 3 and a hitch hickers guide to the universe. them may be i look at the new stephen colbert book.

Posts: 3284 · Posted: October 23, 2007 12:06 am Post subject:

I have to read it for school to. I have an advantage though because my dads a history teacher and he already taught me all the stuff we're learning years ago.
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Posts: 16786 · Posted: October 23, 2007 1:03 am Post subject:

we read it in 10th grade. it was good. I love the "Nobody" part. "Nobody is hurting me!" and the rest of the Cyclopses are like...wtf?
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Posts: 9903 · Posted: October 23, 2007 6:57 am Post subject:

lol yeah we just read that part
im like gawd cyclopes are stupid
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i havent heard of it whats it about?
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Posts: 16786 · Posted: October 23, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject:

...how have you not heard of the Odyssey? its classic Greek literature. Basically its about Odysseus and his journey home, and all the obstacles he meets along the way.
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Posts: 9903 · Posted: October 24, 2007 3:38 pm Post subject:

yupp
i love it!

only bc im obsessed with greek mythology
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Posts: 3284 · Posted: October 24, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject:

I've already had my fill. I pretty much know all I need to know to pass the class with ease and tell stories to my children when I get older.
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I like the Iliad better, it's more brutal!
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Posts: 3284 · Posted: October 25, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject:

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I had to read in 9th and 10th grade.
It is a classic, I have never read the Illiad though.
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I like The Iliad better. The only reason I read the Odyssey is because of the way the Iliad ended. What were you thinking Homer, you can’t end an epic with a funeral. Lol. I was never a fan of Odysseus either so maybe that is why.
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Posts: 1103 · Posted: November 12, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject:

I have to read it for my school too. but i have an advantage over those in my class. its that i have read it for fun about 4 times.
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Posts: 436 · Posted: March 3, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject:

I would love to read although I'm between series right now. I have tried once but it was a bit long for poetry. Wink

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Posts: 4843 · Joined: Nov 4, 2007 Location: australia Posts: 4843

i read a dumbed down kid's version years ago. i don't think i could read the proper one though because i could barely finnish the kid's one it just seemed to go forever! and just when they were on their way home another bad thing happened and by the end i just wanted it to finnish. although at that age i didn't have a much shorter attention span so it might be worth another shot.
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