Heroes
Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
by Stephen Fry · first published 2018
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…case having a list makes quite a lot of sense. If someone expressed the same frustration about the Greek myths, a potentially more productive response would be to point someone to Stephen Fry's Mythos, Heroes and Troy, which he wrote exactly for the reason that this comment thread exists: some people find the original material difficult to get through, but the underlying message was important enough to re-tell.…
on “8-Part Film Adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina Is Free Online” ↗…just finished the Odyssey, a required book in high school, after I previously finished the Iliad, which wasn't required in high school. Reading those two together after reading Stephen Fry's Mythos and Heroes books was a wonderful experience that I felt could have been replicated in high school rather than the whirlwind of bouncing around to unrelated books like the Catcher in the Rye.
on “Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?” ↗