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I swear if you wouldn't have discussed this with me I would have cried even more often than I already did. Personally though, I would recommend choosing the most northern route, which takes you, with just a little detour, by the incredible city of Istanbul. 12 -The Lake Gun by James Fenimore Cooper. They also assume that their audience understands epic conventions, like listing all the generals and their ships, or using frequent repetition. The catalogue of ships is not good writing in the sense that it makes a good story; it's more of an account of who came from where, brought what with them, and so on. We all know the outcome. They became inseparable and reliant on each other. Just as Homer included magical elements in his epic, so Miller follows. The nearby city of Canakkale is a great place to stay and boasts the full-size prop of the Trojan Horse used by the 2004 movie Troy. "—every person who finished reading The Song of Achilles, ever. There are plenty of people who believe stranger things. This subscription can be terminated at any time in the section "Subscription". After having loved Miller's Circe, it was a no-brainer that I'd want to read her take on the Trojan War - so I left it at that and just began reading. Wait, demi-god loses boy, goes a bit funny in the head and behaves badly.
He was a friend, a lover, a teacher, a conscience, a reminder and Achilles past, present and future! There was something so pure and confident in their love. I expect that Miller will eventually get around to producing another modern interpretation from the classics. I got about halfway through and decided I was finished wasting my time. But not in this one.
However, this is not to downplay the other aspects of the story. The characters: This is my spoiler section in which I'm going to speak about the individual characters and what I thought of them. I fully expected Miller to fade back into the woodwork of academia, but then this year she published Circe. Even though I haven't read The Iliad (yet), and I know that Patroclus was not necessarily one of the greatest Greek warriors, I do know that he played a major role in the Greek victory over the Trojans. Join BookBrowse today to start discovering exceptional books! If you are considering reading this yourself, for whatever reason, I cannot recommend the audiobook enough.
And, what do you say to folks that say, reading the Greek myths is just too hard and not very interesting? Patroclus could be replaced by a woman and it would change absolutely nothing about the story Miller has written. There he wrote his last work, 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' in 1898.