Odyssey

I read the book and it was boring. So i like this negitive comment lol.

OMG this book is so damn awesome. stop dissing on this book. i have learned alot about his book and im young and my whole class loves this book. im not into reading books but after i have read this book i want to read more. so F yall who think this book is not good. you guys are just stupid because you guys dont understand it. so before u read this book you need to know true liturature. i love this book!! peace!! xoxo mWAH

i hated this book so much that i was acutally thinking about committing suicide on several different levels. Hanging was my first, but that wasnt painful enough. I decided that i was going to tie dynamite around my body and get hit by a slow moving car. thank you homer for making my life so miserable in reading this horrible excuse for a story. now im going to go kill myself as i described.

I have read the Odyssey twice in high school and now again in my soph. lit class. I do not see the big fuss about it, what is there to learn about a man who goes on an adventure and has to deal with gods and goddesses. I mean there are mutants in there and what does that have to do with the struggle of life. How is stabbing a cylops with a huge piece of wood going to help you learn about stuggle of life. If you want to get an aspect of a struggle of life read a war document or book, or natural disasters that have taken out popultaions and the recovery of them. Now that will change a persons prepective on life because that is reality. The Odyssey is fictional and unblievable it it not funny. I know there are people that like this stuff but when they start talking about its an inspiration or a way to teach about life that is just insane.

You see, I can fully understand that you do not like what you call 'fake' stories. Of course, real life tragedies - take Louisiana - bring you more immediately in touch with reality.
However, I would agree with Shauna in that the Odyssee shows internal struggles of the soul against all kinds of things.
What helps (or at least what helped me a lot) is looking at an episode - take the cyplops - and trying to figure out what the cyclops stands for in yourself. After all, everything we encounter is only ourselves.
And regarding myths - all civilisation is based on them. No humanity, no human evolution, no human civilisation without mythology, without the inner urge to come to terms with the meaning of life, the meaning of our true self, the meaning of creative expression in art.
Cheers, Hannes (I hope that's not too much of a sermon ;) ).

I studied this epic when I was in college... at that time I didn't appreciate it. Now, I enjoy it - despite the lengthy narrative, I felt then and feel now the idiosyncrasies of humans clearly depicted by Homer, if the translation I read is faithful to the language used by Homer. The gods having emotions of humans presented the foibles that man possesses despite the advancement in thought and technology....