![]() ![]() At the every end, in his appendix, Fry says that these stories show all the human weaknesses: envy, pride, lust, etc. There are books about war (War and Peace, Stalingrad are two of the best) that can evoke all the emotions and be real, presenting real characters who are developed with all the human flaws. ![]() So much hyperbole: the most beautiful, the most valuable, the most powerful. Maybe no war has a really good reason, but this is totally absurd, and they know it. ![]() But I wasn’t impressed with the Odyssey and the Iliad in high school, and though 50+ years later I have come to appreciate many books that I didn’t enjoy so much in high school (Dickens, whom I now love, for example), this has not improved with (my) age. Stephen Fry is a delight to listen to, and I doubt anyone could have done a better job with the story of the Trojan War and all the myths that accompany it. I said that “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down” in my review of one of the previous volumes. A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down ![]()
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