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Achilles
Achilles: A Novel | Elizabeth Cook
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This powerful, passionate, and beautifully crafted retelling of the epic tale of Achilles re-creates Homer's fated hero in a new and striking reality. Born of the Sea nymph Thetis by the mortal King Peleus, and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest warrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating charactersamong them, Hector, Helen, Penthiseleia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings form the basis of a meditation on the nature of identity and shared experience. An unforgettable and deeply moving work of fiction, Achilles is also an affirmation of the story's enduring power to reach across centuries and cultures to the core of our imagination.
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Alfoster
Alfoster
Achilles: A Novel | Elizabeth Cook
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Not necessarily book related but saw this on Instagram and laughed out loud! The guy solved it and was about to win a bunch of $$$ but he pronounced it “ach-a-lees” with the accent on the first syllable. Host hesitated then said no and the woman next to him pronounced it correctly and won all the $$. Lesson to be learned: know your mythology!😝🤪

CoverToCoverGirl Oh goodness! 😲🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ 2y
Alfoster @CoverToCoverGirl Seriously! I was amazed that he didn‘t win though! He did solve the puzzle! If he was a foreigner of course he couldn‘t pronounce it but really, he DID solve it!😱 2y
CoverToCoverGirl @Alfoster I agree with you! I didn‘t realize proper pronunciation was rated as part of the process of solving a puzzle. 1y
Alfoster @CoverToCoverGirl I didn‘t either! Feels like it could be a lawsuit as he technically solved it! 1y
CoverToCoverGirl @Alfoster Lol.. I was also thinking he could definitely contest it. 1y
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dabbe
dabbe
Achilles: A Novel | Elizabeth Cook
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Nothing beats reading the real deal. I enjoyed this book AS A READER of THE ILIAD by R. Fagles. I'm not sure I'd like it if I hadn't read the original. The Keats chapter is pointless and completely out of whack with Achilles' story. I read that Cook edited a book about Keats, so maybe that's why she threw him in there. The two could not be more different in temperance and time periods. To me, the ending was disjointed and completely out of place.

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Ubookquitous
Ubookquitous
Achilles: A Novel | Elizabeth Cook
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Book 2 for #readathon finished. A wonderful, lyrical retelling of Achilles through his eyes and those who knew him. Short but poetic.
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