Odysseus’s ten-year journey to try to make it back home after the siege and sacking of Troy. The vainglorious Odysseus and his men turn tail and flee so often that as they legged it down the hill from the Cyclops’s cave I was half expecting him to shout “run away! run away!” while pursued by… The Odyssey Read More
Far From The Madding Crowd 4 stars
I went through a big Thomas Hardy phase back in my teens (when you want authors who truly understand misery piled on misery, with a bit of extra misery thrown in for good measure) though I haven’t read or watched any in a while. Hardy stories tend to start bad then spiral into despair and utter… Far From The Madding Crowd Read More