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The Authoress of the Odyssey by Samuel Butler. I was led to it by Butler's translations (not paraphrases) of the Iliad and the Odyssey, which, unlike most, are eminently readable.
He posits that, unlike the Iliad, the poem was written by a single author, a young, unmarried woman from Sicily and that all the descriptions of specific locales (Ithaca, Sheria, the cave of Polyphemus, etc.) correspond to locations in Sicily.
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Hmm, I seem to have killed this thread .
Currently reading The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger -- just started it but first impressions of the writing style and premise are good.
Anathem was great in a weirdly philosophical way.
Drowned World next (for about the third time), I think.
Seeing that it is freaking cold outside in the desert here this week.
Is there a list of books in order, please (I don't always trust Amazon to sell them in the correct order)?
I'm on with re-reading Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy which ought to take me the rest of the year but, once I'm finished, I'd like something fresh.
(I enjoy Stephenson's writing but at 28hrs a book to read they're not light. Full of fun and odd facts though so worth picking up)
I just read Beowulf in a verse translation. It's quite readable, with interesting commentary, including an article by J. R. R. Tolkein in his day job capacity as a linguistics professor.
I have a liking for the authors of my parents' and grandparents' generations. I've just finished one of G.D.H.Cole's detective stories (The man from the river) and my first Warwick Deeping (The exiles).
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