Thoughts on the Odyessy

At first glance, the Odyessy appears to be a very painful book to read because of it's length and diffucult words. I was not at all excited to read it, because I thought it would be too long and diffucult. At the beginning I thought it was quite boring and I really was not very enthuiastic about reading it. I thought the parts of Telemachus were boring and kept going on and on. As we started to read the parts where Odyesseus would recount his tales after and during the trojan wars I would started to get a lot more involved in the book and I actually became much more interested. The chapter with the cyclops was quite entertaining and was a chapter I had no problem reading. The one thing I do not enjoy about the odyessy are it's long and complicated words that really are only relevant in the times of the greeks. There are many words I don't know but I think it helps your reading skills. I hope we continue to watch the Odyessy movie. Even though it is cheezy, I think it helps the story line and remeber some of the not so well known characters.