Rose’s Reviews > The Odyssey > Status Update

I’m a little behind on my pages… but I’ll still finish before the movie.
Odysseus is back with his son!! (Very anticlimactic tbh)
So the deception begins (very Count of Monte Cristo vibes)

I’m discovering that this book is actually just a bunch of retellings of Odysseus’ journey; from his son, Athena, and Odysseus himself.

Finished Telemachus’ (Odysseus’ son) part, now on to the true adventure

Definitely getting into the flow of how this book is written. There’s certain aspects that make it stand out as Poetry. There is clear repetition in things such as offerings to the gods, anything that has a ritual or anything formal is basically written the same.

The detail of everyone’s name/title is a little exhausting. Like you don’t need to say “blank, son of blank, god of blank” every time.

Okay, I finally finished the introduction (haven’t even started the actual book yet.)

However, I feel like I’m an expert on this. I know the general series of events and people (for the most part… there’s like 500 people I swear). I’ve watched some refresher videos explaining the Iliad, so I know the background.

Wish me luck! I need to read ~15 pages a day to finish this by the movie