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lord will i ever acc finish a book i start

i hate when men write from a woman’s perspective but we’ll see

🎶no one likes a maaaaaaad woman🎶

Interesting retelling of Agamemnon’s actions and its effects on his family during and after the Trojan war - seems to be a lot of imagination on his part, but I liked it, it was an easy read!

Barely started and already the most devastating telling of the Iphigenia sacrifice

Excelente!

I don’t like this

"Perhaps the gods keep the memory of death locked up in their store, jealously guarded. Instead, the gods release feelings that were once pure or sweet. Feelings that mattered once. They allow love to matter since love can do no harm to the dead."

Good, so far, but what a weird take on Cassandra.

Gonna DNF this one sorry Colm normally love you but I'm so bored lo

Beautiful Ancient Greek story retold. A pleasure to read

this is giving the scene in song of achilles when patroclus gets to phthia and sees all the other orphan boys (and achilles ofc). but WHERE is pylades

i’m so invested in this but the amount of willpower i need to read it will be sooo death of me like why can’t they all have fun short silly little names

should i be attracted to Aegisthus i’m getting mixed signals here

yikes...

Gosh this is good

I WILL FINISH THIS TODAY

Don't fuck with Clytemnestra.

The chapters in this book are impossibly long

Orestes’ chapters are a little flat compared to Clytemnestra, but I’m still enjoying the book overall.

Fin boknigen av C.T. !

I have finished with this as it was not for me and I didn't think it matched my other Tóibín reads.

More Greek tales…

Oh yes yes yes yes yes

I was surprised to be so enthralled by the chapter on Orestes and his travels between Agamemnon’s death and his avenging. It’s an aspect of the myth that I’ve never read about before and it’s been written really well! :)

Another thing, now Agamemnon is saying that Cassandra’s prophecies helped him win battles? Two things, she was a Trojan princess who was taken AFTER the fall of Troy. In addition, she was cursed to never be believed when she spoke of the future. She did not have the time, desire, or even the ability to help Agamemnon win battles.

This retelling describes Cassandra as haughty, disdainful, and entitled. Tóibín described her looking around, “as though this were a country that in her dreams had always belonged to her and had become real merely to satisfy her.” She was cursed by Apollo to see the future, but never be believed, and she knew she would be murdered. This fact and her description do not line up. Does this bother everyone else?

Proper naff. A real ‘fulfillment of contractual obligation’ of a book.

little descriptions, more narrative-oriented. very nice so far though, feels exhilarating.

give elektra more page space🗣🗣