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Gregory’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gregory’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Gregory Michael Nixon
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Mary Renault, Trevor Bryce, Joseph Campbell, David Gemmell, Walter Bur
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April 2023
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The Diomedeia: Diomedes, the Peoples of the Sea, and the Fall of the Hittite Empire (Diomedeia Series Book 1)
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Diomedes in Kyprios (Diomedeia #2)
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| The fact that Pinker's book, written for a general audience, is entertaining should not hide the fact that Pinker uses false information and often misinterprets it. (Yes, in fact, the Inuit do have many words to identify the various forms snow takes! ...more | |
"Graves does an excellent job of using both prose & poetry to render this translation. As for the tale itself, it is as much about what is actually in the tale as what is not. An important read for the history of the myth. Lots of battle scenes -- but"
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Thanks, great review! You read my intentions well. I don't mind that you say my writing is "at times a bit dense", for such density is the way depth i
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Gregory Nixon
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| Some of the most critical reviewers below seem to have read a different book than I did, or else they just didn't know what to do with Nicolson's unique style. It is a personal narrative of his engagement with all things Homer, but he also adds vigne ...more | |
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Nick H's review
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Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo:
"Nauseatingly corporate in its approach to writing and general thinking. Fils-Aimé has always seemed like such an approachable guy in his Nintendo appearances, and I guess I wanted a more personal book. This feels more like an extended resume than an "
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Nick wrote: "Glad you checked it out! I also appreciated some of the little Bronze Age details in there, and I thought he did some fun things with the
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The Diomedeia: Diomedes, the Peoples of the Sea, and the Fall of the Hittite Empire (Diomedeia Series Book 1):
"I recently read "The Diomedeia" by Gregory Michael Nixon, and it honestly felt like stepping into a forgotten myth brought vividly to life. 🏺✨📚 It’s rich, intense, and deeply atmospheric—perfect if you love history blended with legend.
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Not to be missed. Renault handles the way Theseus the narrator changes so skillfully as he ages. Our trust in him is betrayed as his perspective chang
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| This is really more murder mystery or detective fiction than historical fiction, but it is that, too. I read it for its association with the heroic Mycenaean Age, but that's not what it really is. I've got to give the author credit, however, for his ...more | |
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| Great light reading from one of my favourite hot actresses from the 90s and beyond. She's obviously very bright and attuned to her world, for she tells uncensored and honest tales (as far as I can tell) from her life. No ghostwriter in sight. She kin ...more | |
“And I shall destroy everything I created. Earth will again appear as primordial ocean, as endlessness as in the beginning. I then am everything that remains — after I have turned myself back into a snake that no man knows."
—The ouroboric serpent of the primordial ocean speaks. (source p. 415 in The Diomedeia)”
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—The ouroboric serpent of the primordial ocean speaks. (source p. 415 in The Diomedeia)”
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“So now all things are damned, one feels at ease.”
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“Her gray eyes clear, the goddess Athena answered, "Down from the skies I come to check your rage if only you will yield”
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“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
—T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets (Gardners Books; Main edition, April 30, 2001) Originally published 1943.”
― Four Quartets
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
—T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets (Gardners Books; Main edition, April 30, 2001) Originally published 1943.”
― Four Quartets
