Started the Fagels translation which my friend tells me is pretty canonical but that she has taught the Fitzgerald translation, so i'm double fisting audiobooks and comparing while i wait for my hard copy of the Emily Wilson translation.
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The Odyssey (; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia, Attic Greek: [o.dýs.sej.ja]) is one of two major ancient …
quaad wants to read Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even …
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quaad wants to read Just kids by Patti Smith
Just kids by Patti Smith
In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the …
quaad wants to read Tales of Beatnik Glory by Ed Sanders
quaad wants to read Sleeping Where I Fall by Peter Coyote
Sleeping Where I Fall by Peter Coyote
Actor Peter Coyote has always managed to embrace the times he has lived in. In the sixties this included the …
quaad wants to read Ringolevio by Emmett Grogan
quaad reviewed The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New …
re read of this
4 stars
I wish i owned the version with this cover! recommended this to a friend, thought i would reread to see if I liked it as much as i used to. I do. I definitely a message story and anti-colonialism is in the forefront. It's short and reads like a parable.
quaad rated The Word for World Is Forest: 4 stars
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New Tahiti” on a tree-covered planet …
quaad started reading The Odyssey by Robert Fagles
trying out this translation. on audiobook. narrated by Ian McKellen
quaad wants to read The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities Duology, #1)
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities Duology, #1)
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's …
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The Undecipherable Voynich Manuscript Can Be Viewed Online in Its Entirety
By Eva Baron
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quaad quoted Ulysses by James Joyce
Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal …
Horseness is the whatness of allhorse.
— Ulysses by James Joyce (Page 186)
this about says it, horsewise.
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mouse commented on The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
this is a wild read and it's sort of comforting that a lot of her contemporaries, even in her account, seem to also be going "Margery, what?"