Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Ilias by Homer

56 reviews

syliu's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous emotional funny informative inspiring tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I had a lot of fun reading this, and I’m glad to have experienced some of Homer in this way. That said I was quite disappointed by the actual portion of the legend of the Trojan War presented here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Domestic abuse, Rape, Excrement, Death of parent

ewwa18's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Grief, Murder, War

hjb_128's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War

Moderate: Incest, Sexual violence

prettiestwhistles's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Classism

Minor: Rape, Kidnapping, Alcohol

gilnean's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Genocide, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit

chaos_positive's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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as dense as a overbaked fruit cake but if you are willing to take the trudge, it has a lot of very poignant themes, Achilles being chronically very angry, so many different ways people get killed by spears, genuinely very impressive, and if you choice to listen to it, even the very very long lists of who killed who and who's son they were become very rhythmic almost like a drumbeat march of the dead. also if you're tired of men in media not showing emotion you best believe these murder hobos clad in bronze cry for their fallen friends. also it might even make you laugh a few times like

there is actually two ajaxes and they are by in large referred to as ajax and ajax , also my favorite quote is, "ajax, you are excellent at quarreling and terrible at thinking" an absolutely marvelous insult

you might not like it if you are really put off about women literally being treated as objects, it was written a few thousand years before the suffragettes made that unpopular. (if you want the same vibes but with women with more agency check out the odyssey, women hold more power in that one and aren't traded like baseball cards)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault

it's very bloody and unforgiving, nobody is spared the suffering, but it's written in a way that distances you because it is so matter of fact about these things, a "this is how things are, no point dwelling on them unnecessarily" attitude.

alicebarbarian's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 26%

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Too slow. I think I’d prefer an audiobook version.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail

elizabethjane's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny

caelfind's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, War

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Murder

Minor: Sexual assault

pbeeandj's review against another edition

4.5

challenging sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Slavery, Violence, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail