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Every interesting thing you think of when you think of 'The Odyssey'-- the blinding of the cyclops, the escape from Circe, Charybdis and Scylla--happens in one chapter, halfway through the book, in a flashback. Most of the rest of it is Odysseus's son whining about the guys trying to marry his mom and take all his dad's stuff.

By my reckoning it's not until the tenth book of this translation that we actually start to hear, in flashback, the story most people traditionally associate with "The Odyssey."