I’ve read the Iliad (Lattimore translation - not sure how that compares …) but this is not a Homeric repetition - it’s the only repeated phrase (so far), it occurs mainly to show that Patroclus notices A’s physique and, is I’m pretty sure, an editorial oversight. Anyway, it’s o.k. I edit and can be a real bear about what I see as sloppy work (poorly edited non-fiction is now the norm and it send me nuts: whole paragraphs repeated within a couple of pages etc). Grump, grump,
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I liked it very much. (Read it in english.)
Just for fun, I watched the movie right after. (The one with Nimoy and Suttherland.)
The movie is very different than the novel. I found the novel to be much better.
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I am now well into Robert Charles Wilson’s SPIN
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I’m rereading Gravity’s Rainbow. I read it a decade ago and loved it. But this time I’m taking my time with it—savoring it. I’m taking notes, consulting the companion written by Steven C. Weisenburger. It’s been a great experience. Pynchon truly is one of the great masters.
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I have three books I’m currently reading. The first is Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave by Ryan Holiday. The second is Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 by Sarah Schulman.
The third is the ARRL Ham Radio License Manual 5th Edition. I’d like to get my technician’s license.
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All the best with that goal @RuthS - their publications were what got me through my licence as a pre-teen in 1973 (in New Zealand) and helped me develop a love of library books. Most recently, and forty years plus since I held a licence, I have been thinking of re doing the equivalent exams in Australia (or maybe when I actually retire).
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I’ve never contributed to one of these so, why not. I’m currently reading Tom’s Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski.
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Yes. I read V decades ago and it changed my mind. I’m going to track down this companion, GR was also very good.