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Encaitare · 08-26-2004, 12:49 PM

Flowers for Algernon depressed me. I'm not sure what the curriculum is for this year, but I'm pretty sure we'll be reading Beowulf (yay! I read it already!

) and Canterbury Tales. I didn't really enjoy the Odyssey, although I am sure I would have if I'd read it on my own. Has anyone else noticed that the prose versions of epic poems are never as good?

08-26-2004, 12:49 PM	#22
Encaitare Bittersweet Symphony Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise Posts: 1,814	Flowers for Algernon depressed me. I'm not sure what the curriculum is for this year, but I'm pretty sure we'll be reading Beowulf (yay! I read it already! ) and Canterbury Tales. I didn't really enjoy the Odyssey, although I am sure I would have if I'd read it on my own. Has anyone else noticed that the prose versions of epic poems are never as good?