"he raised his hand and over the desolate earth he traced in space the sign of the dollar."

ha. there's 18 for you.

i feel i must barf now.

Seriously though, let's keep Randy comments out of the book club.

Hahaha, "randy comments." Whoa.

HERE, HERE. I'll translate page by page! And post it all here.

Well shit, I'll have go and buy/check out a copy tomorrow.

Are we setting a deadline to finish the book?

Right. I agree with everything that has happened so far. I'm going to pick up the first copy of the book I find and lie if I can't get the version everyone else is reading. In fact, I might read a summary and bullshit everyone into thinking I read it.

Nah, just kidding, I'll have it finished in a week.

We'll probably take a slightly slower pace.

When I get my hands on it, I'll decide on a pace. Probably try to finish in a month or so, meeting once a week.

I read the Fitzgerald translation too, and I'm also on that bandwagon that suspects two different authors.

If you can overlook the comparative dryness of the Iliad, it still tells a damn good story, and the background information it provides makes The Odyssey that much more enjoyable. I read The Iliad after The Odyssey, re-read The Odyssey, and found it had much more fluidity.

Those poems are more reasons why I dig Greek and Roman historical accounts. They're really just nonfiction soap operas, and entertaining as all hell to read.

the odyssey is more entertaining and you can read it as a kid you can read it as a grownup and its fucking great.

currently i am trapped in circe's island and all my crew has been turned into pigs and i can't get home-- yes, those funky greek myths apply even today.

anyway however that, the illiad is much more SUBLIME. you have to skip the endless repetitions, meant to be sung-- the fucking glory of those motherfuckers-- what a way to live and die-- compared to them, our century is populated by worms.

oh shit i forgot.

posted a thread related to this book club.

please read HERE

Glory? If you define such as gluttony, narcissism, territorialism, hedonism, lecherousness, vanity, and depravity.

Which I do. I'm just sayin'.

hell yes.