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Unico libro di Baricco che non mi ha fatto impazzire. Completamente differente dal suo soluto stile, forse avevo io dele aspettative differenti

Ten years of battle and the Trojan war rages on. For purists this book would be considered sacrilegious. It is an abridged version, but it is called An Iliad not The Iliad. It was written to be read aloud and broadcast on Italian radio. There were moments of boredom page after page of “Polypoetes killed Astyalus, Odysseus killed Pidytes, Eurypylus killed Melanthius”. But a quick easy telling of an epic in Greek mythology.
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1. The Neapolitan Novels. Read the first two. Stopped halfway through the third. The fourth is sitting on a shelf somewhere. Will I finish them? 🤷‍♀️
2. Starting War and Peace a few years ago, fearing I‘d hate it and discovering I loved it and didn‘t want it to end. 🥰
3. Many crushes, first was Hamlet while reading in school. Probably thought I could save him. 🙄

I love a retelling of Greek mythology.

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“I wanted to look him in the eyes and see war die, and the arrogance of those who wish for it, and the folly of those that fight it.”