![]() ![]() More than fifty years later, I must confess that Homer’s Odyssey is still better than chocolate itself. ![]() Even though the new series had a steeper fifteen cents cost (5 cents was a whole Hershey bar!), I just had to have it. A man on that ship faced the monster fearlessly, shaking his fist in righteous rage. It pictured a monster with a single eye standing on a mountain hurling huge boulders at a ship in the harbor. Ten cents of that almost always went for the latest “Superman,” but one week a cover from a new series called “Classics Illustrated” caught my eye. ![]() This will date me, but when I was 10 and 11, I got fifty cents as a weekly allowance. Few stories engage my imagination at such depth and fewer still hold up under such close scrutiny.Īctually, the “Homer bug” bit me early. I’m lucky enough to teach Homer’s classic tale for the Christopher Wren Association every fall, and I confess that re-reading it so frequently is a pleasure. Reading Homer’s Odyssey is something I do once or twice a year. John Livecchi of Circulation Services shares this review: ![]()
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