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When I bought this audiobook I was expecting a story translated into old fashioned and heavy English, dense with complicated imagery and challenging to the ear. How wrong I was! This translation by Emily Wilson is a joy to listen to and sounds so modern considering the age of the original poem. I‘m not especially a Greek mythology lover but I really enjoyed the adventure and scale of this story. A very pleasant surprise! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Today is a hard day. My grandpa passed away a year ago. He was a great reader, and this is one of my favorite pictures of him. Just wanted to share it today in honor of him. I love and miss you, Papou ❤

Wow. I wasn't really expecting The Epic of Gilgamesh to be so beautiful. Honestly, I wasn't sure I would understand it. But the author of this version has pieced the story together in a way that even the non-reader will understand and fall in love with. The narrators are more like performers, emotional and passionate. The author also includes an essay that goes deeper into the story, looking for deeper meaning. Loved this so much.

1. According to GR, A Charlotte Mason Education by Catherine Levison (104 pp), but I don't completely trust GR page counts.
2. The Lord of the Rings (1,216 pp as one volume). See note on GR page counts above.
3. Meditations of the Heart by Howard Thurman (printed 1953). Epic of Gilgamesh is older (c2100 BCE) but I don't have an original printing (inscription?) of that one.
4. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Oct 2019)

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I am loving this much more than I expected. The narrator is fantastic. Such a great story.

Promised myself I would read this little beauty in 2019, so I have settled in with it and I‘m loving it. 🥰

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/11/05/tufts-student-may-have-found-secret...

I like it. Has bit of a Dan Brown feel to it. I wonder if it's hiding anymore secrets...🤔

Excellently read by Heaney himself

Lattimore is my go-to translator for the Iliad. It FEELS faithful to the original, though since I don't know ancient Greek (yet) this seems like something I shouldn't be allowed to say. How can a poem that on one level is all about guys and gods shoving spears through each other be ultimately very moving? You can ask Homer, but he's dead and won't tell you directly.

An ancient epic not to be forgotten. Fun, in a way, to read as a story by itself. But perhaps more important as an ancient source of mythology and storytelling.