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War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad
by Christopher Logue

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recommended for: Lovers of The Iliad/Lovers of Sophia/Lovers of Poetry

A great book. Deserves to be read everywhere like that marvel of translation Heaney's `Beowulf'. A complete re-imagining of `The Iliad', a fierce grappling with the text that sends the reader to the nearest Dictionary to grab as many hyperbolic descriptions as can be found. Psychologically deep, poetically acute, spiritually rich.

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message 1: by J
07/30/2008 01:53PM

731690 I knew it! Why did I buy Pynchon's Mason & Dixon instead of this? Why?? I'm circling it in red on my to-read list right now.

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message 2: by Ginnie
07/30/2008 02:26PM

354189 I am so happy you were as moved as I was by Logue. I keep urging him on everyone I know.

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message 3: by Donald
07/30/2008 02:54PM

537046 I will too...

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message 4: by David
07/31/2008 01:58PM

Nophoto-m-25x33 Logue is a great writer AND a great actor. His performance as Cardinal Richelieu in Ken Russell's "The Devils" is a thing of wonder.

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