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The Song of Achilles: A Novel (original 2012; udgave 2012)

af Madeline Miller (Forfatter)

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12,816501479 (4.21)5 / 1012
Den eksilerede græske dreng Patroklos møder den jævnaldrende dreng og halvgud Achilleus. Deres venskab bliver med tiden til et varmt kærlighedsforhold, der dog bliver truet, da krigen imod Troja bryder ud, og de begge skal deltage i krigen ved siden af helte som Agamemnon, Odysseus og Ajax.
Medlem:eboudreaux
Titel:The Song of Achilles: A Novel
Forfattere:Madeline Miller (Forfatter)
Info:Ecco (2012), Edition: 37696th, 416 pages
Samlinger:Books I've Read
Vurdering:
Nøgleord:February 2021, Fiction, Adult, MP, FW, Book Club 21

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Achilleus' sang af Madeline Miller (2012)

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    The Silence of the Girls af Pat Barker (konallis)
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    Den persiske dreng af Mary Renault (emanate28)
    emanate28: Maybe they are too similar... But both The Persian Boy and The Song of Achilles are heartbreaking and beautiful stories of legendary heroes told from the perspective of their devoted boy lovers. The ancient heroes come alive and one is transported back into those times.… (mere)
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    An Arrow's Flight: A Novel af Mark Merlis (marq)
    marq: Mark Merlis also takes up the story of Pyrrhus (or Neoptolemus), Achilles’ son with Deidamia when he was in disguise as a woman on Scyros. A very different kind of novel, steampunk, wild anachronism, graphically homoerotic, brilliant.
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    Lavinia af Ursula K. Le Guin (knhaydon)
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Viser 1-5 af 494 (næste | vis alle)
I read Madeline Miller's "Circe" last year and completely adored it, and that pushed me to finally pick up this book. I was truly expecting to love it totally but I think (especially compared to "Circe") it just wasn't as jaw-droppingly wonderful as I was expecting. The beginning third of the novel was my favorite as the world unfolds and we get a pretty narrowed in look at Patroclus and then Achilles. Those were the moments I felt like their relationship was best because we as the reader got to see them learning about each other and their places in the world together. Also, the portions with Chiron were very engaging and I found myself wishing we had more of those lyrical, mythical moments.

Then I felt like the book began jumping around quite a bit and the pacing got a little awkward. For instance, the sort of sideplot about Achilles briefly going into hiding felt almost totally disconnected from the story as a whole and I can't see how it added much to the story. Then everything becomes a loooong war story, and the next 10 years fly by pretty quickly, with us getting only small bits of information. There is fighting, death, an immature king, but it all felt a bit lacking? I think some of these scenes could have been rewritten to further develop the relationship between Patroclus and Achilles and REALLY make me feel for them; Achilles felt so distant and petulant most of them time that it was difficult for me to care about him. I enjoyed Patroclus, but his every thought is about Achilles, so again, it was difficult for me to get invested when I didn't care about a major character.

I'll also note that I listened to this on audiobook, which I don't do very often simply because I like seeing the words more. The narrator of this book (Frazer Douglas) was not good. His voices for both Achilles and about three different side characters sound exactly alike, and I had trouble differentiating them when it wasn't explicitly written who was talking. Also every female voice Douglas is laughable and sounds like a cartoon voice. So there is the chance that I might have liked this better in print.

It's definitely not a bad book by any means! I can see why a lot of people enjoy it, and there were portions I liked, too. It's just not my favorite and I think it's a tad overhyped. If there had been less long portions of war talk and more magic or character development I would have liked it more, but that happens a lot in "Circe" so I'll just plan on reading that again in the future. :) ( )
  deborahee | Feb 23, 2024 |
Spoilers!!!

My friend told me they tore the last pages out cuz they hated the ending due to it being "extremely homophobic" (their words). Had me intrigued, so I read the book. Got close to the end and thought, sure it's sad, but not that sad. Then I read the last chapter. The F-ing audacity! That lil shit! Glad he died. Understand my friend now. ( )
  Itaby | Feb 21, 2024 |
The Song of Achilles was so beautifully written, I just wish I liked it more than I did. The prose spoke to my heart and the love that Patroclus has for Achilles really shown through the pages. It absolutely broke my heart in places.

If you are a fan of Greek mythology, this book will scratch all the right itches for you. Gorgeous prose that will just roll right off the tongue and will transport you back to the days when the Gods and their children roamed the Earth. ( )
  NotYourDad | Feb 13, 2024 |
"He’s done nothing to me."
you sly dog ( )
  salllamander | Feb 11, 2024 |
1.5 stars
I really wanted to like this book, I loved Circe by Madeline Miller but this book didn't fit the characters of Achilles and Patroclus that I know from studying Classics - even with literary license I felt it was unbalanced and too focused on their relationship. Patroclus' perspective was annoying and whiny to me, and I had to DNF it. ( )
  bella.nadia | Feb 6, 2024 |
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That The Song of Achilles offers a different take on the epic story of Achilles and the Trojan War is not, in itself, anything particularly out of the ordinary. People have been putting their own spins on The Iliad from the instant Homer finished reciting it. What's startling about this sharply written, cleverly re-imagined, enormously promising debut novel from Madeline Miller is how fresh and moving her take on the tale is — how she has managed to bring Achilles and his companion Patroclus to life in our time without removing them from their own.
tilføjet af Shortride | RedigerUSA Today, Robert Bianco (Mar 12, 2012)
 
But in the case of Miller, who earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in classics at Brown, the epic reach exceeds her technical grasp. The result is a book that has the head of a young adult novel, the body of the “Iliad” and the hindquarters of Barbara Cartland.
 

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