Odyssey, Ulysses, anyone?
I’m nerdishly obsessing over reading Odyssey and Ulysses with some friends, and have roughed out an outline. Any readers out there interested in joining us? This is for December 2014 through June 2015.
The copy of Odyssey at hand is the Harper edited by Lattimore, and 374 pages total, trade paperback, includes glossary and intro, actual work is pages 27-359.
The Ulysses copy I have to hand is the Gabler Vintage trade paperback edition, and is 650 pp plus an 6 pg preface and 4 page afterword. a 17 week read is 30ish pages a week.
Here are page breakdowns for an 8 week Odyssey read, about 45 pp a week:
12/1 start reading
12/8 1-3 41pp
12/15 4-6 48pp
12-22 7-9 44pp
break for holidays/catch up
1/12 10-12 49pp
1/19 13-15 45pp
1/26 16-18 45pp
2/2 19-21 42pp
2/9 22-24 53pp Odyssey done woo hoo!
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2/9 Start Ulysses which has 18 parts of various lengths
2/16 sections 1, 2= 32 pp
2/23 sections 3, 4=29 pp
3/2 sections 5, 6=40 pp
3/9 section 7=29pp
3/16 section 8=28pp
3/23 section 9=30pp
3/30 section 10=31 pp
4/6 section 11=31pp
4/13 section 12=45pp
4/20 section 13=31pp
4/27 section 14=37pp
5/4, 5/11, 5/18–section 15 (150 pages in my ed.)
5/25 section 16=44pp
6/1, 6/8 section 17 (65 pp in my edition)
6/15 section 18=37pp
6/16 Bloomsday!
October 3rd, 2014 at 8:20 am
I’ll do it. I haven’t read either book in 28 years or so.