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This book is super beautiful!!!!!!! I thought Circe (first book of Madeline Miller that I've read) is good, but this one is incredible!!! Poetic, mesmerizing love story between Achilles and Patroclus. I never read anything about their relationship before so this book is very refreshing to me. The description of their haunting, tragic, but beautiful love story is in contrast with the cruelty, bloody, and chaotic war between Greeks and Trojans. And in the midst of it all, the arrogance of Achilles
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Based on Achilles from Greek mythology. Told from patroclus’s point of view. It’s pretty okay. They’re lovers and it’s cute.
An interesting take on the life of Achilles and Patroclus, as told through Patroclus's eyes. It tells similar aspects as told through Pat Barker's "The Silence of the Girls" though a male perspective. In both stories Patroclus's comes off quite well. They take a very different spin on the role of Briseis, and I definitely prefer Barker's version for that.
Both stories convey the horrors of war, the destruction that comes from men seeking glory and power. The Song of Achilles also focused on the ...more
Both stories convey the horrors of war, the destruction that comes from men seeking glory and power. The Song of Achilles also focused on the ...more
An inter reimagining
This is a rich and interesting re-imagining of the Achilles myth. Steeped in the original myths, it has been reshaped into a moving tragic love story.
This is a rich and interesting re-imagining of the Achilles myth. Steeped in the original myths, it has been reshaped into a moving tragic love story.
That was depressing. Beautiful, but oof. My heart.
Mar 13, 2019
Emily
marked it as to-read
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Jun 28, 2020
Kelly
rated it
it was amazing
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Jun 12, 2021
Kate
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it was amazing
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