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The Iliad by Homer
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March 15, 2015 – Shelved
April 27, 2015 – Started Reading
April 27, 2015 –
page 500
71.02% "Having a hard time finishing this up, because I can't sit through more repetitive eye-gougings and limb slicings. There are some repetitive phonebook-like sections in between the really brilliant descriptions and metaphors (comparisons of Achilles' benched, myrmidon army behaving like restless wolves; the 300-esque armies sounding like the loud roar of tidal waves ... that sort of thing)"

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